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I really like defensive players. I've never played defense so I often wonder how they think.
— Priest Holmes
I just get really defensive as soon as anyone comes near my personal life. I made a decision early on that it's strictly off-limits. No exceptions.
— Samantha Morton
Murder is an offensive act. The term cannot be applied legitimately to any defensive act.
— Benjamin Tucker
The atheist must abandon his defensive positions, take up the cudgels and go forward, rather than into the retreat of apathy.
— Madalyn Murray O'Hair
It is hard to be defensive toward a danger which you have never imagined existed.
— John Christopher
He has turned defensive boxing into a poetic art. Trouble is, nobody ever knocked anybody out with a poem.
— Eddie Shaw
The difference between a good defensive team and a bad defensive team is as little as three possessions
— Brad Stevens
Don't be so defensive and afraid to be proven wrong that you miss the opportunity to learn from your mistakes.
— Karen E. Quinones Miller
Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don't ever apologize for anything.
— Harry S. Truman
I learned through apprenticeship. I was an assistant to a defensive coach, and I'm still learning.
— Brendan Daly
You want bold? Ask the hundreds of defensive backs I ran over during my career if they think I'm bold.
— Jerome Bettis
At best, people are open to scrutinizing themselves and considering their blind spots; at worst, they become defensive and angry.
— Sheryl Sandberg
Rather awkwardly shy and therefore at times defensive and rather too assertive
— John Edward Williams
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 against you.
— Clint Eastwood
An angry frontal attack puts even the most invulnerable person on the defensive.
— Sue Patton Thoele
As the U.S., much of Europe, and the U.K. shift toward the political right, the rhetoric grows more insular, defensive, and protective.
— Samantha Harvey
I'm not being defensive, I'm just defending myself.
— Michael Chipman
It's important for us, if we're going to be a good team, to be a good defensive team in the fourth quarter.
— Steve Nash
Act with the greatest determination and on the offensive. The defensive is the death of every armed rising.
— Vladimir Lenin
Human maturity is neither offensive nor defensive; it is finally able to accept that reality is what it is.
— Richard Rohr
The worst thing is the world is a defensive my-kid-can't-do-anything-wrong parent.
— Laura Schlessinger
Mark my words: If Shaun Rogers is healthy, he'll be the NFL defensive player of the year.
— Matt Millen
America under Barack Obama has become a defensive, reactive and weaker country both at home and abroad.
— Chris Christie
Nature in America has always been suspect, on the defensive, cannibalized by progress. In America, every specimen becomes a relic.
— Susan Sontag
We were staggered and immediately on the defensive, for she looked intellectual, and it made us feel shy.
— W. Somerset Maugham
Standing on the defensive indicates insufficient strength; attacking, a superabundance of strength.
— Sun Tzu
When PLO sniper fire is followed by 14 hours of Israeli bombardment, that's stretching the definition of defensive action too far.
— Ronald Reagan
At first, I didn't know what to expect but I do say that I love our defensive coordinator, Tim Lewis.
— Michael Strahan
I get very weird and defensive about what I'm working on - I wouldn't even tell my secretary what the next page of my novel was about.
— Joan Juliet Buck
Also discovered my inward happiness and my defensive armor of superficiality and gaiety.
— Francine Prose
Wit has its place in debate; in controversy it is a legitimate weapon, offensive and defensive.
— Theodore Parker
By fighting a limited, defensive war, America permitted the enemy to endlessly re-supply their field armies.
— Nguyen Cao Ky
There's something to be said for writing in the morning. At other points in the day, you're a bit more defensive.
— Alex Turner
Everything has changed. An interview has become such a confrontational thing. It makes you very defensive.
— Francesca Annis
I was a gang leader. Although, it was a gang for defensive purposes. It was not a gang to sell drugs.
— Jack Bowman
I was lucky enough at Stanford to have Vic Fangio as the defensive coordinator for a year, and then Jason Tarver.
— Andrew Luck
With the help of your therapist or healing ally, you can identify who makes you feel uneasy, concerned, scared, or defensive.
— Jeanne McElvaney
When actors are being defensive and defending their position, that is when you get less than good acting.
— John Boorman
I see that you are highly defensive." ... Caro said, "I withhold my analysis of your own attitude. — Shirley Hazzard
Nothing is more idealistic than a journalist on the defensive.
— Melvin Maddocks
Town Hall Level Eight Defensive Design
— A.I. Woods
My nonviolence does recognize different species of violence, defensive and offensive.
— Mahatma Gandhi
I'm not offended until you think I'm offended.
— Criss Jami
Sometimes offensive players get turned into defensive players, which sometimes isn't a bad thing, but for me I need a chance to play more offense.
— Martin St. Louis
To be human is to be on the defensive, somewhere, somehow.
— Corra May Harris
With growing experience, all skillful commanders sought to profit by the power of the defensive, even when on the offensive.
— B.H. Liddell Hart
I was so sensitive and touchy in a way that my character would never be. I was so protective and defensive of young girls, and sex in general.
— Kristen Stewart
I don't think you can perpetrate war crimes with defensive weapons, with air defense systems.
— Sergei Lavrov
It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive.
— Jawaharlal Nehru
A warrior lives on his wars, whether offensive or defensive. And he suffers a collapse if he finds that his warring capacity is unwanted.
— Mahatma Gandhi
You have to use your mind n the NFL. Every player is smarter. Defensive backs bluff and disguise coverages to try to fool you.
— Chad Ochocinco
Defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory.
— Douglas MacArthur
People always talk about going on offensive runs. But you can go on defensive runs too
— Tom Thibodeau
Aggressiveness carries with it an incalculable moral edge in any combat, offensive or defensive.
— Jeff Cooper
And also I think particularly as a female, you're taught to be defensive your whole life. You're taught not to be aggressive.
— Uma Thurman
I don't give a score prediction, but I am a defensive guy, so I'll definitely be looking forward to a defensive game.
— J. J. Watt
I don't like defensive shots-you can only get threes
— W. G. Grace
The transition from the defensive to the offensive is one of the most delicate operations in war.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Dogma is a defensive reaction against doubt in the mind of the theorist, but doubt of which he is unaware.
— Harold Lasswell
Painting is not made to decorate apartments. It's an offensive and defensive weapon against the enemy.(about Guernica). — Pablo Picasso
I really had to create my own style, because it's kind of hard being a 6-1 defensive end. I'm really like 6-4 - really.
— Hugh Douglas
The sin that is most destructive in your life right now is the one you are most defensive about.
— Timothy Keller
I am a very good driver - a defensive driver.
— Kelly Carlson
The purely defensive is doomed to defeat.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Camouflage with a defensive grace and bounce back with joy.
— Angelica Hopes
He had known instinctively that it was always better to tell a partial truth with a willing aspect than to tell a perfect truth in a defensive way.
— Eleanor Catton
Further, a defensive policy involves the loss of the initiative, with all the consequent disadvantages to the defender.
— Douglas Haig
All warfare that is not defensive is criminal.
— Jane Porter
I always liked the defensive part of baseball.
— Pete Rose
With fandom, people are sensitive, and sometimes defensive, about their experiences.
— Rainbow Rowell
My style is like Bruce Lee, I'm like water. It's everything from defensive, to counters, to offense.
— Nonito Donaire
Any defensiveness is a sign of failure. You can't move forward if you are defensive.
— Bryant McGill
A defensive referendum is for avoiding war and to help keep the Taiwanese people free of fear.
— Chen Shui-bian
The official strategy is defensive pessimism, always.
— Veronica Roth
Karate is a defensive art from beginning to end.
— Gichin Funakoshi
That's what I did, though - I had angry, defensive conversations in my head, got mad at things that hadn't even happened yet. Yet.
— Gillian Flynn
The more defensive a society, the more conformist.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
