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Good basketball always starts with good defense! — Bobby Knight

We teach offense 5-0/5-5 (whole method) and defense by part (1-1/3-3). — Dick Bennett

If concealment is the single weapon, then a villain is never a villain; one smiles to the very end. — Truman Capote

Defense doesn't break down on the help, it breaks down on the recovery. — Chuck Daly

You can't play any defense if the other team is on the foul line. — Mike Krzyzewski

Defense is what matters. Scoring doesn't interest me. — David Robinson

"Dost thou understand? I love thee!" he cried again."What love!" said the unhappy girl with a shudder.He resumed,
"The love of a damned soul. — Victor Hugo

Maybe "Bible Belt" refers not so much to the popularity of the Good Book in these parts, but to the biblical-plague level of insects. — Paul Jury

When one thinks what one leaves in the world when one dies, Only silence is strong, - all the rest is but lies. — Henry Adams

I'm one of the best defenders to ever play basketball, so I'm still the first option on defense. — Metta World Peace

There is in Ammiel Alcalay's work an unabashed tenderness for the world as it is, and that makes him courageous, different. — Etel Adnan

There has never been a great 'silent' defense — Del Harris

Cognition is not fighting, but once someone knows a lot, he will have much to fight for, so much that he will be called a relativist because of it. — Karel Capek

Great defense consists of 3 R's: read, react, and rotate. — Peter P. Carr

If you want team play, you must stress defense. Defense makes players unselfish. — John Brady

The land free, the land free for all, land without overseers and without masters ... — Emiliano Zapata

Those to whom defense is not important will have the best seat in the game — Rick Majerus

Dawn itself is the most neglected masterpiece of the modern world. — R. Murray Schafer

Defense is all about helping. No one can guard a good dribbler, You have to walk kids through how to help and then how to help the helper — Bobby Knight

I hate you, Richard Wagner ... but I hate you on my knees. — Leonard Bernstein

I wasn't a bad basketball player, but I was far from the world's greatest. Good defense, no offense - that was me. — Chuck Connors

Players act like the floor is slanted; they run downhill on fast breaks and jog uphill when getting back on defense — Tates Locke

You have to make shots to win basketball games and we didn't do that. You also have to get back on defense, so it was a double-whammy. — Gregg Popovich

Defense is one man guarding the ball and four others helping him — Mike Krzyzewski

Offense sells tickets, defense wins games, rebounding wins championships. — Pat Summitt

Criticize on defense and encourage on offense. — John Brady

Defense can't guard two things in a row. — Chuck Daly

I knew Rick Pitino was going to make them play that outbreak, monkey defense. He's been doing it all his life. — Shaquille O'Neal

My philosophy of defense is to keep the pressure on an opponent until you get to his emotions — John Wooden

Yeah Ernie, its called defense, I mean I wouldn't know anything about it personally but I've heard about it through the grapevine. — Charles Barkley

My players on defense must have a hand-up on every shot. If not, they run sprints. — Rick Majerus

I'm looking for activity. I put players in and take them out based on effort and defense, not making or missing shots — Doc Rivers

One does not know where love will take you. — Pat Conroy

If you're not talking, you're not playing defense — Doc Rivers

Your defense will save you on the nights that your offense isn't working. — Adolph Rupp

Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up. — Red Auerbach

Winning is more related to good defense than good offense — Jack Ramsay

Words define you. — Alok Jagawat