Sports Defense Quotes

#1. And the color in my eyes
has gone back into the sea.

Charles Bukowski

#2. We have forty-four defenses for him, but he has forty-five ways to score.

Al Attles

#3. And the thing about scared people is, whenever you ask them for advice, on whatever subject, they only ever have one thing to say to you: Run.

Caitlin Moran

#4. Now is the time to know that God is able. To connect your current reality with God's present ability.

Priscilla Shirer

#5. I'm going to give the people their money's worth ... true sports entertainment for their dollar. I'm the undefeated IBF Light Heavyweight World Champion making my fifth title defense. The crowd will be with me because everybody wants to be with a winner.

Tavoris Cloud

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

Andrew Bogut

#7. When we played against Dan Marino, the best defense was to keep him on the sideline. By keeping him on the sideline, you made him frustrated. You made him anxious. When he came on the field, he felt like he had to score every time. I think that is where Peyton Manning is.

Boomer Esiason

#8. When you play defense you have to storm the fort or play cover - you can't do both.

Bear Bryant

#9. Usually a championship team is built on a strong defense. That is something you can bring to every game. A great attack is always going to be inconsistent - at least on the scoreboard - that's the nature of the game.

Anson Dorrance

#10. 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

#11. We only have what we give.

Isabel Allende

#12. It's not just self defense, it's about ... self control, body discipline, and mind discipline ... and breath techniques. It involves yoga. It involves meditation. It's an art, not a sport.

Elvis Presley

#13. As a kid I was short and only weighed 95 pounds. And though I was active in a lot of Sports and got along with most of the guys, I think I used comedy as a defense mechanism. You know making someone laugh is a much better way to solve a problem than by using your fists.

Tim Conway

#14. I knew they would kill him, or try any way to hurt me or make me upset, so I just was standing there trying my best to look brave!

Ayah

#15. Karate is not a game. It is not a sport. It is not even a system of self-defense. Karate is half physical exercise and half spiritual. The karateist who has given the necessary years of exercise and meditation is a tranquil person. He is unafraid. He can even be calm in a burning building.

Mas Oyama

#16. I should have known. The first tip I got was when she rarely showed up in court for the second trial.

Dennis Kozlowski

#17. Just as a stool requires three legs to stand upright so the taekwondoist must cultivate basic skills, meaningful forms, and effective sparring in order to have both feet firmly planted in the art

Doug Cook

#18. 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

#19. Here in this blessed land, the foundation, the backbone, the life-centre is religion and religion alone.

Swami Vivekananda

#20. If you buy things you do not need, soon you will have to sell things you need.

Warren Buffett

#21. A knife can be a symbol, but it also better be able to cut string. And if it represent cutting free, cutting loose, in the story's beginning, it better not be used to prop up a bookcase and then forgotten later on.

Ansen Dibell

#22. Conflict can be seen as a gift of energy, in which neither side loses and a new dance is created.

Thomas Crum

#23. There is no such thing as a successful defense.

George S. Patton

#24. I've always been into sports and yoga and running. I actually study a martial arts self-defense program called Krav Maga. I can't quite say it's easy, but it's fun for me and I love to do it.

Kari Matchett

#25. Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.

Red Auerbach

#26. I was a fan of Hitchcock, but more importantly than that, he is such an inscrutable man, and a very carefully inscrutable man. He apparently was blank-faced with a calm and controlled presence. I was immediately anxious and thought, 'How am I going to get behind that?'

Toby Jones