Quotes About Sports Offense

#1. Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#2. At the end of the day, that's our sole purpose and our sole reason for existing, is to love somebody else.

Nikki Reed

#3. Anger requires energy, something I don't dare waste on what cannot be altered.

Ellen Hopkins

#4. The interesting thing is how one guy, through living out his own fantasies, is living out the fantasies of so many other people.

Hugh Hefner

#5. Baseball is the only sport I know that when you're on offense, the other team controls the ball.

Ken Harrelson

#6. 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

#7. It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has.

William Osler

#8. Mindfulness is about being fully awake in our lives. It is about perceiving the exquisite vividness of each moment. We also gain immediate access to our own powerful inner resources for insight, transformation, and healing.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#9. 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 System basketball has been replaced by players who want to be the system.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

#10. Even the biggest blaze, though, has to start somewhere, with a tiny spark, or arsonists would be out of business.

A.P.

#11. As we age we have not only to readdress earlier developmental crises but also somehow to find the way to three affirmations that may seem to conflict ... We have to affirm our own life. We have to affirm our own death. And we have to affirm love, both given and received. [p. 88]

Mary Catherine Bateson

#12. 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

#13. We have to humble ourselves and the way you do that is by serving other people.

Tim Tebow

#14. Nothing touches your skin of sweat
(meltdown of oceanic kisses)
when the purple light
whispers to the moon
in silent moonlit clarity

Bear Step

#15. Concentrate on defense because the offense will come.

Andrew Bogut

#16. I keep busy. That was my nickname in college, 'Iron to the Fire.' I like to keep several things going at once.

Creed Bratton

#17. Multiply your age times your realized pretax annual household income from all sources except inheritances. Divide by ten. This, less any inherited wealth, is what your net worth should be.

Thomas J. Stanley