Ron Atkinson Quotes

I can stretch the defense.

Defense doesn't matter enough.

When you put pressure on the quarterback, everything looks a lot better.

One defends when his strength is inadequate, he attacks when it is abundant.

Invincibility lies in the defence; the possibility of victory in the attack.

It's a big part of my game, attacking.

Sometimes I feel like my defense is so elite that sometimes my offense gets put on the backburner.

You cannot have a situation where you think that if you want to attack, then you play this formation, and if you want to defend, then you play this formation.

Defense is my main priority, and offense is going to come second.

Football is like boxing because you have to know when it is time to attack.

If you have a defensive concept, you're going to play defense. If you don't have a defensive concept, and you have an offensive concept, then you're going to play offense.

First and foremost my obligation is on the defensive side. But obviously there are times when I need to go and attack, too.

Regardless of how well you can be offensively, if you have a great defense, you can deal with any offense.

So in war, the way is to avoid what is strong, and strike at what is weak.

Isn't the best defense always a good attack?

An enemy should be struck at his weak point.

Only the player with the initiative has the right to attack.

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.

Hence that general is skilful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skilful in defense whose opponent does not know what to attack.

Sometimes in football you have to score goals.

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

I have observed that baseball is not unlike a war, and when you come right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery.

Not only the attackers, but the defenders - it's on the attackers to prepare themselves to break through the strong defense.

Strikers can't score every week, much as they would like to.

I think there's a lot of different ways to score points and win football games and be efficient offensively, just like there is on defense and special teams. That's what makes this great game so special.