Defensive Quote by Matt Rife

“I learned in therapy the word "No" is a complete sentence.”

— Jaycee Dugard

It's so much easier for me to talk about my life in front of two thousand people than it is one-to-one. I'm a real…

— Richard Pryor

One of the turning points in the look of the Guardian is when we decided Logan Thackeray would be a Guardian as opposed to…

— Jeff Grubb

“Defense mechanisms protect us. Fortresses isolate us. And far too often we begin with the former and end up constructing the latter.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

The top coaches want wide strikers who cut inside. They want playmaking midfielders who can play between the lines as well as perform their…

— Jamie Carragher

I've never just thought of myself as a defensive-only player.

— O. G. Anunoby

“To switch effectively from defense to social engagement strategies, the nervous system must do two things: (1) assess risk, and (2) if the environment…

— Stephen W. Porges

Iran has little capacity to deploy force. Its strategic doctrines are defensive, designed to deter invasion long enough for diplomacy to set it.

— Noam Chomsky

I'm a coach who likes to have the ball, but what I really think is, 'How can you be in charge of the game?'…

— Nuno Espirito Santo

You have to feel confident. If you don't, then you're going to be hesitant and defensive, and there'll be a lot of things working…

— Clint Eastwood

“I need to ask, are you afraid of spiders?" Nicholas blinked, suddenly caught off guard, "Yes, I'm afraid of spiders." "Were you always?" "What…

— Stephen M. Irwin

Any time I'm healthy I feel like I'm the best defensive player in the NFL.

— Tyrann Mathieu