Defensive Quotes

The positions I played in football, being a quarterback and a defensive back, you had to kind of have a little independent thinking. — Hale Irwin

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

I loved to make a great defensive play, I'd rather do that than hit a home run. — Bill Dickey

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

Foreign nations have begun to include information warfare in their war college curricula with respect to both defensive and offensive applications. — George Tenet

Now he laughed again. "I'm sorry. I just tend to get on the defensive." "That's okay. I tend to get on the clueless. So we're even." He — N.R. Walker

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

I was always being creative. I could never have played a defensive role because I would have been forced to destroy the other player's creativity. — Eric Cantona

I think every time I go in a game, I have added something positive. I have gotten a rebound or made a defensive play. That is what I try to focus on. — Rebecca Lobo

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

I'm affected by my environment. Los Angeles makes me defensive and wary. — Dan Fogelberg

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

A German attack on Russia's ally France would, in reality, be defensive - but the English talked as if Germany was trying to dominate Europe. — Ken Follett

You start talking about God and a lot of people are going to become very defensive. — Ron Perlman

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

Linebacker is a lot more detail oriented and you have to know a lot more than a defensive end necessarily would on any given play. — Justin Cole

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

I was a very defensive kid 'cause I was really sensitive underneath and didn't want people to know. So I came off as very tough and very angry. — Pink

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

If men can learn to be less defensive, more open to others, and more accepting of accountability, they will adapt well to the new global economy. — John Gerzema

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

Defense is something I take pride in. I feel it's just as important as offense. They should have RBIs for defensive plays. — Derrek Lee

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

I've been trying to work on my positioning and defensive game. — Thomas Vanek

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

War, in some instances, especially defensive, has been authorized by Heaven. — Ezra Stiles

All warfare that is not defensive is criminal. — Jane Porter

I always liked the defensive part of baseball. — Pete Rose

He's a rather brilliant defensive tactician," Grimm said. "I agree," Bayard said. "The problem is that he's an inept defensive strategist. — Jim Butcher

You can always look back on having a good defensive day, even if you didn't do anything offensively. You won the game and you contributed. — Jorge Posada

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

Chatty, defensive, observant. My new favorite witness. — Rob Thomas

During an economic slowdown, one needs to be cautious, but I think it's equally important to not get sucked into the vortex of defensive thinking. — Pankaj Patel

Karate is a defensive art from beginning to end. — Gichin Funakoshi

I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence. — Robert Burns

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

You should always be defensive, but never be offensive. This will help you to preserve your reputation as a human being. — Saaif Alam

The more defensive a society, the more conformist. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Toward his critics, the artist harbors a defensive ace: knowledge that the future will erase the present. — Louise Gluck

Now that I'm retired, I want to say that all defensive linemen are sissies. — Dan Fouts