Quotes About Offense And Defense

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. The vote is a power, a weapon of offense and defense, a prayer.

Carrie Chapman Catt

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. I think the important point is the turning point in combining offense and defense in a reasonable way.

Fred Ikle

#8. A good football team plays offense and defense. You have to be aggressive and disrupt.

Vince Flynn

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. You have to give it to the Packers. They are a good team. They have a great offense and a great defense.

Rob Gronkowski

#12. God's first line of defense - and offense - for every situation is prayer.

Joyce Meyer

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. The best defense is great offense ... We fight through our mistakes and failures by maximizing our forward motion.

Wayde Goodall

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. I think of customer service as an offense and not a defense

Gary Vaynerchuk

#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. 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

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. The offense sells tickets and the defense wins the games.

Lindsey Nelson

#27. 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

#28. We have switched from defense to offense and in this battle all the members of the Hamas leadership are legitimate targets.

Tzachi Hanegbi

#29. 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

#30. 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

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

Dick Bennett

#32. 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

#33. 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

#34. 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

#35. 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

#36. 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

#37. 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

#38. 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

#39. Football is one-third offense, one-third defense, and one-third special teams.

George Allen

#40. 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

#41. Criticize on defense and encourage on offense.

John Brady

#42. 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

#43. 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