Basketball Offense Quotes

#1. An acrobatic dunk will make it onto Sports Center. A simple, unspectacular bounce pass in the rhythm of the offense will not. System basketball has been replaced by players who want to be the system.

Phil Jackson

#2. I am struggling to understand you.

Rose Harris

#3. Nothing cheers a girl up like SHOPPING!

Madonna Ciccone

#4. I never had worked in high fashion before, had never experienced it when I was a model before. I appreciate it, being able to work with such talented people; it feels like a gift now. I think for everyone everything happens at the right time, and this is my time.

Saskia De Brauw

#5. A politician is a hog grateful to whoever is rattling the stick inside the swill bucket. It is time to take the swill bucket away. p 270

Mike Lofgren

#6. Offense is not equal opportunity

Bobby Knight

#7. Nothing is weaker than water, Yet for overcoming what is hard and strong, Nothing surpasses it.

Laozi

#8. I really like the P!nk song with the guy from fun., 'Just Give Me a Reason.'

Psy

#9. Forty-three years old, and still afraid of my father. Some tycoon, hunh?

John Saul

#10. In 2001 we didn't have all the talent in the world, we just had me on offense and just a bunch of tough ass dudes, and a great coach in Larry Brown.

Allen Iverson

#11. Among the things he passed on to me were the belief that all men and women, regardless of their color or religion, are created equal and that individuals determine their own destiny; that is, it's largely their own ambition and hard work that determine their fate in life.

Ronald Reagan

#12. Offense is spacing and spacing is offense.

Chuck Daly

#13. Your defense will save you on the nights that your offense isn't working.

Adolph Rupp

#14. As coaches we talk about two things: offense and defense. There is a third phase we neglect, which is more important. It's conversion from offense to defense and defense to offense.

Bobby Knight

#15. Work all paled into the background as soon as I had a baby.

Chris Hemsworth

#16. Once the Hack-a-Shaq works once, you know I'm going to see it again. The only thing worse for basketball than that defense is the Lack-a-Shaq offense, where I have to go to the bench because of foul trouble. There is no fun in that.

Shaquille O'Neal

#17. Winning is more related to good defense than good offense

Jack Ramsay

#18. In planning any type of offense, when a player leaves a spot always replace him with another offensive player.

Hubie Brown

#19. Criticize on defense and encourage on offense.

John Brady

#20. What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts.

Italo Calvino

#21. Do passing drills that come from your offense.

John Wooden

#22. I think that to stop an offense, you must go to the heart of that offense. If it is a particular move, a screen, the break, an outstanding scorer, whatever it is that they like to do and rely on, you have to work in your plans on taking that completely or as much as possible away from them.

Bobby Knight

#23. 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

#24. It's fun to play defense. It's fun to watch the opponent sweat on offense, start complaining to the officials, and eventually be taken out of the game because he's making so many offensive mistakes

Maury John

#25. Every skill must be practised. Every act rehearsed. A blade is only a blade when it cuts.

Richard K. Morgan

#26. It [would have] been very difficult. As I said, the rules ... but if the rules were put in place back when Michael Jordan was in his prime - no hand-checking, the game was more geared toward offense, wanting to promote scoring in the game - he could have probably got close. He did score 69.

Scottie Pippen

#27. Over 90 percent of parents in Puerto Rico want their children to be totally fluent in English.

Luis Fortuno

#28. We teach offense 5-0/5-5 (whole method) and defense by part (1-1/3-3).

Dick Bennett

#29. Offense sells tickets, defense wins games, rebounding wins championships.

Pat Summitt

#30. If you are a good team, your offense is born on the defensive end.

Don Meyer