Defensively Quotes

#1. If you let fear dictate your decisions, you will live defensively, reactively, cautiously. Living by faith is playing offense with your life.

Mark Batterson

#2. Wylan blushed deeper, and Jesper shook his head. "Play piano, too?" "Flute," said Wylan defensively. "Perfect.

Leigh Bardugo

#3. You don't smile enough, Coop.
I smile, I tell her defensively. She puts a hand on my shoulder and squares off with me.
But not like you mean it.

J.R. Richardson

#4. Timmy Horan was a childhood hero. He was a great distributor, elusive, good stepper, very physical, defensively very sound. What a rounded player.

Brian O'Driscoll

#5. Oh, what would you like on your vegetarian pizza?" "Dead pigs and cows," I said. She glanced up at me and wrinkled her nose. "They're vegetarians," I said defensively.

Jim Butcher

#6. You may find this hard to believe, Mr. Pinter," she went on defensively, "but some men enjoy my company. They consider me easy to talk to."
A ghost of a smile touched his handsome face. "You're right. I do find that hard to believe."
Arrogant wretch.
-Jackson and Celia

Sabrina Jeffries

#7. I was better at both ends, defensively and offensively, It was more of a well-rounded game.
I want to add to that.

Sidney Crosby

#8. You like this stuff?' she asked neutrally. 'Good to dance to,' I replied, a little defensively. 'Do you dance to it? Here? In your room? By yourself?' 'No, not really.' Though of course I did.

Julian Barnes

#9. Bex ... why did you buy an inflatable canoe?'
'It's for you to lie on. Or something.'
'And a watering can?'
'I couldn't find a plant spray.'Breathlessly I start shoving bags into the taxi.
'But why do I need a plant spray?'
'Look,it wasn't my idea, OK?' I say defensively.

Sophie Kinsella

#10. I look down and cringe as I see Lucian's modified boxer shorts. "My panties are too tight," I say defensively. "It was either these or nothing at all." "And you picked the first option?" She shakes her head. "When in doubt, go commando.

Sydney Landon

#11. Ship, lady. This here's a ship," he said defensively, as if she'd told him, "Your penis: I find it minuscule.

Kresley Cole

#12. It actually took me a year to learn how to play running back - to understand what they were doing defensively and then what our guys were doing every single play.

Marcus Allen

#13. The defender must first think defensively, but he must also think offensively. For an attacker it is the other way around. Somewhere they meet.

David Winner

#14. What? I said defensively, clutching the mink and my dignity. Since I was barefoot, mostly naked and completely hungover, I was pretty sure I grasped only one of them.

Karen Chance

#15. My grandmother looks at me and shakes her head. "He got one of those intelligent phones. Now he's trying to twit the president." "Smart phones," I correct her. "And it's tweet, not twit." "He follows me," my grandfather says defensively. "I'm not kidding, he really does!

Colleen Hoover

#16. When you play teams that are good defensively and teams that have been there with experience, the object is to keep the goals against down.

Darren McCarty

#17. Defensively, I think it's important for us to tackle.

Karl Mecklenburg

#18. What tended to happen, to Colin and Mary at least, was that subjects were not explored so much as defensively reiterated, or forced into elaborate irrelevancies, and suffused with irritability.

Ian McEwan

#19. The Italians are very strong defensively. They showed in Euro 2000 how good defensively they are.

Alan Hansen

#20. Thou shalt not steal. I mean defensively. On offense, indeed thou shall steal and thou must.

Branch Rickey

#21. I thought weirdness was a good thing. I don't mean that defensively, either. I thought it was something to be cultivated.

Holly Black

#22. The deeper you get into the playoffs, obviously the better the opponent is. Which means they'll be better defensively, they'll rebound better, they don't turn the ball over.

Eric Snow

#23. When you play against different people from all walks of life you can't do the same thing against every player defensively or offensively. You have to change up the way you go at a player.

Oscar Robertson

#24. I consider myself a pretty hardworking guy and I like to play hard, play physical and play well defensively too.

Mike Fisher

#25. I bought it in a shop," said Twoflower defensively. "I said I wanted a traveling trunk." "That's what you got, all right," said Rincewind. "It's very loyal," said Twoflower. "Oh yes," agreed Rincewind. "If loyalty is what you look for in a suitcase.

Terry Pratchett

#26. Is it possible to live so defensively that you never get to live at all?

Rachel Naomi Remen

#27. Austin cleared his throat. Given the choice between being with books or people, he'd always choose books. You could always tell what a book thought without needing to have a confrontation. People, on the other hand, defensively clung to their need to be right no matter how flawed their thinking.

Ted Dekker

#28. Holy silicone suppository, Batman!" Ethan said, grinning. Dan snorted, Parker coughed to disguise a laugh, and I glared at them all. "What?" My brother shrugged defensively. "That's what it looks like.

Rachel Vincent

#29. I bought a big-ass house and haven't decorated it yet," Psycho replied defensively. "Patio furniture looks good in my living room. I don't
have a lamp. The red and green Christmas lights work just fine."
"The lights blink."
"So do I.

Kate Angell

#30. You have to get yourself psyched up because you never have a night off defensively, especially at my position.

Michael Finley

#31. I thought we were aggressive across the board defensively, and you could just see it grow. As the game went along, you could see the confidence grow. It showed in the fourth quarter.

Bill Laimbeer

#32. I'm still going to have to go out and score, but defensively hopefully I can make them a little bit better.

Latrell Sprewell

#33. I think the Pistons have such a well rounded team, which is why they're so successful. All you have to do is look at the stats defensively and at their rebounding and scoring.

Chuck Daly

#34. Abs? What are you, a workout video?" he sneered.
"Pigeon?" I said with the same amount of disdain. "An annoying bird that craps all over the sidewalk?"
"You like Pigeon," he said defensively. "It's a dove, an attractive girl, a winning card in poker, take your pick. You're my Pigeon.

Jamie McGuire

#35. You control what you do offensively, defensively. You're controlling who you play, how you want to play.

Steve Alford

#36. Whatever, I know how to treat a girl," he said defensively as he glanced at Haven for confirmation, clearly not believing his own words. She nodded reassuringly, and he smiled. "See?

J.M. Darhower

#37. You went shopping with Rebecca?'
'Yep,' I said, pulling the shoes out of the box.
His brows went to the heavens.
'Wow, those are like ... Jenn shoes.'
'These are not hooker shoes,' I said defensively.
'Well played,' he said.

Karina Halle

#38. I scowled defensively. "My conversations don't usually include the subject of erections."
"Too bad," he said. "All the best conversations do.

Lisa Kleypas

#39. Twoa said, obviously still in my brain. "It was my pheromones," she said defensively. I looked up at her; she was sniffing herself. She looked down at me. "Okay, maybe it wasn't ALL the pheromones," she admitted. "Nobody makes a good deodorant for superheroes.

John Zakour

#40. We're not hitting on all cylinders, defensively. When we're playing good, I'll let you know.

Tony Dungy

#41. Getting someone behind the wheel of a car is like putting them into deep hypnosis; their true self comes out. In vehicle veritas. Israelis, for instance, drive both defensively and offensively at the same time, which is, come to think of it, the way Israelis do pretty much everything.

Eric Weiner

#42. The basic premise of my system is to fatigue your opponents with constant pressure defensively and constant movement offensively.

Rick Pitino

#43. Offensively, you do what you do best and you do it again and again. Defensively, you attack your opponent's strength.

Vince Lombardi

#44. For the team to be successful, we've got to set team goals. I go out every game and make sure that I'm contributing, whether that's defensively or offensively.

Phil Hill

#45. Defensively the Red Sox are a lot like Stonehenge. They are old, they don't move, and no one is certain why they are positioned the way they are.

Dan Shaughnessy

#46. I'm a running coach and I am going to continue to run, but I would hope that we are better defensively.

Don Nelson

#47. How are they defensively, attacking-wise?

Ron Atkinson

#48. Sadb spoke quickly, defensively. "Merry wish me return a message to ye, but ye did not give ye
say-so to do so. So, he wish ye say-so for me to do so on ye say-so. So, I use me mind's eye to ask
ye say-so. Ye say so?" She abruptly fell mute.

C. Kennedy

#49. Bottom line, when someone defensively says their way of writing is their style, then that usually means they're making an excuse for poor prose.

A.J. Flowers

#50. Still, it's cool," said Ron, a little defensively. "And from what they said, Dumbledore invented it himself!"
"I know, but surely he wouldn't have singled you out in his will just to help us turn out the lights!

J.K. Rowling

#51. He called me a pie!" she announced, defensively. There was a pause. "Wait. That's not right."
"A tart?"
"Yes! That's it!

Sarah MacLean

#52. If you look at the causes of the accidents, quite a few of them are operator error. We need people to be diligent and follow the rules of the road and drive more defensively.

Bob McKenzie

#53. He's not so short," said Ekaterin defensively. "He's just . . . concentrated." Her

Lois McMaster Bujold

#54. Painting isn't made for the decoration of apartments; it is a weapon to be used offensively and defensively against the enemy.

Pablo Picasso

#55. Love is graphable!" Colin said defensively. "Right. Because relationships are so predictable, right?

John Green

#56. It is interesting to find that people of faith now seek defensively to say that they are no worse than fascists or Nazis or Stalinists

Christopher Hitchens

#57. My father had a theory that poor people are the best drivers because they can't afford to carry car insurance and have to drive like they live, defensively.

Paul Beatty

#58. I myself feel that I'm a well-rounded player and got a lot better defensively and without the puck as time has gone on.

Patrick Kane

#59. We should've been better, more disciplined. We made untimely mistakes defensively, as a group. This is really humbling for us. After winning the Stanley Cup, we got brought back down to earth, hard. Maybe the humbling is good for us in the long run.

Steve Yzerman

#60. I'm satisfied with the way I play, but I don't evaluate my performances. I worry about what I can contribute defensively. I don't need to score. As long as we win, I don't care how many points I score.

Patrick Ewing

#61. You're a walking Christmas light?"
"No," he said a little defensively. "I'm a powerful warlock.

Michelle M. Pillow

#62. I think that's part of building your team is trying to anticipate where your team is going and to a certain extent where, especially defensively because you have to react to what they put on the field. Defensively you have to be able to defend those things.

Bill Belichick

#63. You should get him a mixed tape,' said Elyaas. 'Kids love mixed tapes. They're the cool 'in' thing right now.'
'was the last time you were summoned the eighties?' Magnus asked.
'It might have been,' Elyaas said defensively

Cassandra Clare

#64. People must have dignity and identity. If they can't do it peacefully, they will do it defensively.

Joseph Tirella

#65. I can hear until you start whispering," Shawn said defensively. "Then you just hiss like a snake and it all blends into one long Remybabble.

Abigail Roux

#66. You're weird."
"You're weird too," she said defensively.
"I guess that means we're perfect for each other." He stared into her eyes, challenging her to deny it.
"I guess so," she said.
He smiled.

Olivia Cunning