Defensive Maneuver Quotes

If the enemy has occupied them before you, do not follow him, but retreat and try to entice him away.

When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard.

Ozzie makes a leaping, diving stop, shovels to Fernando and everybody drops everything.

I was surrounded at the time by about a dozen of the enemy, whose clubs rattled upon me without mercy, and the strokes of my sabre were rendered uncertain by the energetic pushes of an attendant who thus hoped to save me.

If I am shot at, I want no man to be in the way of the bullet.

Montefusco bare-hands it and throws him out. That grounder will make you a traveling salesman in a hurry!

I sit and wonder why no one uses the shot fake. The shot fake, when used correctly, can eliminate a defender

I move my head. I don't get hit.

They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wouldn't get it. We didn't want the Japanese to get it intact.

The best way to attack is to defend well.

Luke Cage is using his open hand instead of a closed fist. It's a little disrespectful but it's very effective. Some people call it a pimp slap, we call it smack-fu. He's doing you a favour by hitting you with an open hand. It hurts, it renders you unconscious but you live.

A surgeon will cut off a limb in order to protect the body from disease. And a commander-in-chief should pull out of a war that cannot be won in order to protect a nation.

In a position of this sort, even though the enemy should offer us an attractive bait, it will be advisable not to stir forth, but rather to retreat, thus enticing the enemy in his turn; then, when part of his army has come out, we may deliver our attack with advantage.

The parry is wrong." - Drizzt Do'Urden

In the action business, when you don't want to say you ran like a mouse, you call it 'taking cover.' It's more heroic.

Their forward got a lucky squeeze from the defender.