"The transition from the defensive to the offensive……" — Napoleon Bonaparte

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• There's a general sense that women are more relaxed and less defensive in comedy than they used to be. I… — Jo Brand
• I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle… — Robert Burns
• Everything has changed. An interview has become such a confrontational thing. It makes you very defensive. — Francesca Annis
• The halberd is inferior to the spear on the battlefield. With the spear you can take the initiative, the halberd… — Miyamoto Musashi
• When we're playing a good scoring center, we tell our team that it is not our defensive man's job to… — Bobby Knight
• We have a simple rule for switching. Anytime there is movement over the top of a screen, there has to… — Ralph Miller
• Good defensive play is as much a matter of hustle, desire and pride as it is anything else. — Tex Winter
• Probably the most important aspect of individual defensive play is the 'close-out.' This approach to the ball should be made… — Tex Winter
• Adolf Galland said that the day we took our fighters off the bombers and put them against the German fighters,… — Jimmy Doolittle
• A life without a lonely place, that is, a life without a quiet center, easily becomes destructive. When we cling… — Henri Nouwen
• If you are a good team, your offense is born on the defensive end. — Don Meyer
• I am not too accusatorial or defensive by nature. I have always been kind of philosophical about it, remembering that… — Steve Nash

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