Top 79 Defense Offense Quotes
#1. You are most powerful when you are most silent. People never expect silence. They expect words, motion, defense, offense, back and forth. They expect to leap into the fray. They are ready, fists up, words hanging leaping from their mouths. Silence? No.
Alison McGhee
#2. Balls and strikes are the basic tenet to everything in baseball. From the perspective of hitting, pitching, offense and defense, it's all about the strike zone and how the battle is waged there between the pitcher and hitter.
Doug Harvey
#3. The word of God is the Christian soul's best weapon, and it is essential to have it with him always. In doubt it decides, in consultation it directs; in anxiety it reassures; in sorrow it comforts; in failure it encourages; in defense it protects; in offense it is mightier than the mighty.
Wilfred Grenfell
#4. J.J. Watt, he does on defense what Andrew Luck does on offense. He inspires those around him, he makes them better.
Bill Cowher
#6. The best defense is great offense ... We fight through our mistakes and failures by maximizing our forward motion.
Wayde Goodall
#7. The two major ways people fail financially: 1) Spend when they should save. 2) Save when they should invest.
Orrin Woodward
#8. In middle school, I played quarterback. I was at a tiny school, so you played offense and defense - I played linebacker, and in high school I stopped playing around my sophomore year because of my acting stuff.
Jesse Plemons
#9. I think the important point is the turning point in combining offense and defense in a reasonable way.
Fred Ikle
#10. A good football team plays offense and defense. You have to be aggressive and disrupt.
Vince Flynn
#11. Your defense will save you on the nights that your offense isn't working.
Adolph Rupp
#12. It's always better to attack than to defend," Coram had told her when they talked about fencing late at night. "Always. Ye don't win with defense
ye only hold the other feller off, or wear him down. Attack and have done with it!
Tamora Pierce
#13. The apologist is most entrusted with apologetics when capable of arguing his opponent's position better than his opponent.
Criss Jami
#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. For the longest time, it's always been Aaron Rodgers and the offense. It's nice to have a little notoriety on defense.
Clay Matthews III
#16. God's first line of defense - and offense - for every situation is prayer.
Joyce Meyer
#17. Regardless of how well you can be offensively, if you have a great defense, you can deal with any offense.
Ray Lewis
#18. The longer the life the more the offense, the more the offense the more the pain, the more the pain the less the defense and the less the defense the less the gain.
Thomas Wyatt
#19. Republicans spend too much time on defense. We have to be on offense. We have to point out the truth. President Obama stole seven hundred million dollars from Medicare. Republicans want to preserve Medicare. Obamacare robs from Medicare.
Rudy Giuliani
#20. The best offense is a good defense, but a bad defense is offensive.
Gene Wolfe
#21. Maybe we need to quit playing defense and start playing offense. Maybe we need to quit letting our circumstances get between us and God and let God get between us and our circumstances. Maybe we need to stop talking to God about our problem and start talking to our problem about God.
Mark Batterson
#22. You have to give it to the Packers. They are a good team. They have a great offense and a great defense.
Rob Gronkowski
#23. The framers understood that the president, as the head of our armed forces, must defend the nation from imminent threat. But when the mission shifts from defense to offense, congressional approval is essential.
Tim Kaine
#24. The offense sells tickets and the defense wins the games.
Lindsey Nelson
#26. Concentrate on defense because the offense will come.
Andrew Bogut
#27. Humor is a great defense, and an offense too. Usually the recipient isn't too happy about it, but the people around are laughing.
Robin Williams
#28. I don't use a ring of any kind on my phone. This is so that I am always on offense and never defense.
Dave Morin
#29. Perhaps the LORD will act in our behalf. Don't play defense with your life. Play offense with your kids, your wife, your life. Don't look for the path of least resistance. The hard way is the best way! And quit living as if the will of God is an insurance plan. Dare to dream great things for God.
Mark Batterson
#30. I believe the war on terror is the vital discussion of this decade and of our generation, probably. To win the war on terror, you need a good offense and a good defense. On defense, I regret to say, basically, this administration has not come close to doing what is necessary.
Chuck Schumer
#31. In war the only sure defense is offense, and the efficiency of the offense depends on the warlike souls of those conducting it.
George S. Patton
#32. Defense is on the fly, it's reactive; you have to react to the offense. I have to prevent someone from doing something when they want to do it.
Charles Tillman
#33. I think of customer service as an offense and not a defense
Gary Vaynerchuk
#34. We have to back each other up no matter what. Defense, you have to do your job, and offense has to do theirs.
Lawrence Timmons
#35. Bobby Knight told me this: 'There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.' In other words a good offense wins.
Dan Quayle
#36. I've been in international competition, and now I know what the big boys can do. You don't go out and just run. There's an offense and a defense.
Steve Prefontaine
#38. There's three parts to football: offense, defense, and special teams. You'd no more ignore special teams than you would offense or defense.
Marv Levy
#39. A major theme in all my books is that the CIA is not only the first line of defense but they should also be the first line of offense.
Vince Flynn
#40. The football playoffs feature one-off affairs, without bad feelings building from weekend to weekend. In addition, football uses platoons for offense and defense and kicking, so only the interior linemen have a chance to really get up close and personal with one another.
George Vecsey
#41. North Korea, under its thirtysomething Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, is no country for old men. The latest casualty in Kim's ongoing purge of the senior military command was the defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, who reportedly committed the classic old man's offense of falling asleep in a meeting.
Barbara Demick
#42. 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
#43. Here, every private person is authorized to arm himself, and on the strength of this authority, I do not deny the inhabitants had a right to arm themselves at that time, for their defense, not for offense ...
John Adams
#46. The type of athletes we draft still need types of versatility on the defense side of the ball, run the offense. You should still be concerned on the offense side of the ball.
Isaiah Thomas
#47. 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
#48. Some libs took offense at my David Broder quip earlier. In my own defense, I was taught in college it's OK to disrespect dead white males.
James Taranto
#49. Applied war is where the money's at. I don't mean that figuratively. Defense is 140% of the UVE budget. Offense is twice that. This is possible because there is no budget for math education.
Zach Weinersmith
#50. Offense sells tickets, but defense wins championships.
Bear Bryant
#51. I've never had a quarterback run-driven offense. We don't run designed plays where we snap the ball directly to the quarterback and he's just running it. If the defense is cheating and overcompensating for your running back, then the quarterback needs to keep (it) honest.
Chip Kelly
#52. Whatever I can do to help our team, whether it's defense or offense, I'm going to do it.
Eric Staal
#53. We teach offense 5-0/5-5 (whole method) and defense by part (1-1/3-3).
Dick Bennett
#54. The only defense is offense, which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly than the enemy if you wish to save yourselves.
Stanley Baldwin
#55. Offense sells tickets, defense wins games, rebounding wins championships.
Pat Summitt
#56. Defense is a lot more natural to me than offense.
Scott Rolen
#57. I see neither bravery nor sacrifice in destroying life or property, for offense or defense.
Mahatma Gandhi
#58. I want each and every West Virginian to have bragging rights. I want to stop playing defense and start playing offense. So, together, let us grab the reins of history.
Joe Manchin
#59. 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
#60. We have switched from defense to offense and in this battle all the members of the Hamas leadership are legitimate targets.
Tzachi Hanegbi
#61. The strategies of offense and defense are very similar between chess and football. Chess really brought closeness to the team back in those days.
Rubin Carter
#62. I am disappointed, but I am realistic too. When you put your defense back on the field repeatedly, the offense needs to do its job and the defense needs to get itself off the field.
Les Miles
#63. 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
#64. Matthew 11:12? "From the days of John the Baptist until now, the kingdom of heaven has been forcefully advancing, and forceful men lay hold of it." Are you playing offense in your marriage? Or are you playing a prevent defense that leaves romance on the sidelines?
Mark Batterson
#65. Winning is more related to good defense than good offense
Jack Ramsay
#66. Imagine what the world could be if we were on the offense with love instead of on the defense with hate.
Carlos Salinas
#67. We know about the Detroit offense with Calvin Johnson, the best receiver in the game. If this defense continues to play at this pace, they may have something to say about the NFC North.
Bill Cowher
#68. Criticize on defense and encourage on offense.
John Brady
#69. Defense wins championships. A good offense is beat by a good defense, always.
Eric Bolling
#70. Football is one-third offense, one-third defense, and one-third special teams.
George Allen
#71. For the first time in Rex Ryan's career as a head coach, his offense is now better than his defense.
Sterling Sharpe
#72. The other thing was that when I was at the University of Miami, we ran a pro-style offense and defense. I started each year by going to a pro training camp, I visited with various pro coaches, and I did this for five years.
Jimmy Johnson
#73. I like every aspect of defense; I enjoy shutting down the offense.
Richard Sherman
#74. As your captain, I'm going to push you to not fall back on defense, but to play offense, and to play our match
the Gospel, together.
Pope Francis
#75. Truth is not only a matter of offense, in that it makes certain assertions. It is also a matter of defense in that it must be able to make a cogent and sensible response to the counterpoints that are raised.
Ravi Zacharias
#76. Installing a new offense is harder than a new defense. It just takes time.
Joe Montana
#77. The bomber will always get through. The only defense is in offense, which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly that the enemy if you want to save yourselves.
Stanley Baldwin
#78. The community of technical experts who really manage the internet, who built the internet and maintain it, are becoming increasingly concerned about the activities of agencies like the NSA or Cyber Command, because what we see is that defense is becoming less of a priority than offense.
Edward Snowden
#79. When the lights go out at a power plant sometime in the future, we're going to know that that's a consequence of deprioritizing defense for the sake of an advantage in terms of offense.
Edward Snowden
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