Dan Quayle Quotes

Defense doesn't matter enough.

A lot of guys are offensive minded, which is good at some points and times but bad at others - at lots of others. I wish I could say I want everybody to play defense as hard as I do. It's not a reality.

Some people get very confused about my game. They think it's better if the court is slow, because I have a good defence. But the faster it is, the better for me. My spin is more painful for my opponents, my aggressive game works better.

I didn't get a ton of interest from colleges in baseball and football, but I was outstanding in track and had the sense that this would be my meal ticket... Track was a sport where I saw immediate improvement, and I had a lot of good support behind me... and the coaches had a lot of experience and pushed me in that direction for sure.

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

Name one experienced coach anywhere in the world that would hand over their playbook to the other team. Unless it's a fake playbook, it just doesn't happen.

What's a good tournament for him? Winning it. He's good enough.

I'd just like to be good at sports. I'm extremely competitive with absolutely nothing to back it up.

It's good to be good at playing defence, but the best defence is a strong offence.

We want to create a problem for the defense, a moment of indecision as they figure out how they want to play against whatever formation we may show. We get a slight edge this way. Also, we create the opportunity for a defense to make more mistakes.

If I were a high school coach, I would put my best players on offense. The best athletes on my team, I would give them the ball and score points. I wouldn't play them on defense. I would play them where they can get the ball and score points.

I think we can keep people off-balance and ultimately we have to go score points, score one more point than the other team.

If seven or eight players play offensively, then it's clear that the offensive force is greater than the defensive stability. That's what I often say internally.

When you master all defensive and offensive aspects of the game and always enjoy the majority of possession, you're sitting in pole position to win.

Every week we work really hard on that, in our defensive and offensive set pieces, and in our routines as well.

You want to be on the offense and make the defense react. I feel like that.

During the regular season, you don't have the sort of time you do in the playoffs to prepare for people, so you've got to go to your strengths.

This is a physical game, and that's how you have to play. When you do that, the defense eventually gets tired of tackling you.

If you can hang in games by staying close defensively, then good things can happen.

If your offensive and defensive lines are speaking and people are listening, you've got a very good chance of success.

The game changes when you play good defense and don't come up with the ball.

It's one of those things: we've got guys that are very offensive and can take down anyone, and we've got guys that don't shoot at all but are very hard to take down. It's one of those things. You've got to decide what you're good at.

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

Our goal is to outplay the other team's defense every game - it doesn't matter who we're playing.

It would be ideal to have someone scoring a goal in every game but that is not easy.