Defensive Strategy Quotes

My uncle, my dad always made sure I had guard skills. But as far as defending everybody, that wasn't really my mindset until my rookie year.

To let somebody get 30 points on you, and you feel good because you got 35 on them, that's not good for me, you know what I'm saying? If I get 35, I want him to get 12 or 14 because that means I've done something. I've done my job. I went out there and played hard and did what I had to do.

The most important rule is to play great defense, not great offense. Everyday I assume every position I have is wrong. I know where my stop risk points are going to be. I do that so I can define my maximum drawdown. Hopefully, I spend the rest of the day enjoying positions that are going in my direction. If they are going against me, then I have a game plan for getting out.

If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.

The archetypal No. 10 is a skillful player who is more interested in being in possession than tracking to get the ball back.

You may fly over a land forever; you may bomb it, atomize it, and wipe it clean of life - but if you desire to defend it, protect it,and keep it for civilization, you must do this on the ground, the way the Roman Legions did - by putting your soldiers in the mud.

If attacked on some vulnerable point by anyone or anything or any organization, always find or manufacture enough threat against them to cause them to sue peace ... Don't ever defend. Always attack.

I think defending is more of, like, a science, and it's fun to learn that. And then I see attacking as an art.

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.

You never win an argument until they attack your person.

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

If we mean an offensive war in America, we must abandon New York and put out whole force into Virginia … If our plan is defensive mixed with desultory expeditions, let us quite the Carolinas--which cannot be held defensively while Virginia can be so easily armed against us—and stick to our salt pork in New York, sending now and then a to steal tobacco.

Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet.

When the ball was hit, my first reaction as a shortstop was always go in the direction of the ball. You can't do that at first base. You go too far in that direction, and it's hard to scurry back and be ready to pick the throw.

Defense is a definite part of the game, and a great part of defense is learning to play it without fouling.

A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.

For me, all I want to do is win. Whether I make a hundred tackles or one tackle, all I want to do is win and for the defense to perform well.

I've got a good first step and things of that nature. So it's just about using your body to make the defense play at your tempo and react to you.

I just try to make the right play, stay aggressive and defensively just do what I do. I make sure I talk to everyone and control the paint.

The one effective method of defending one's own territory from an offensive by air is to destroy the enemy's air power with the greatest possible speed.

I think a submarine is a very worthwhile weapon. I believe we can defend ourselves with submarines and all our troops back at home. This whole idea that we have to be in 130 countries and 900 bases... is an old-fashioned idea.

In football you need to look to make life difficult for the opponent.

When everyone touches the ball, it gives everyone energy, and that translates to the defensive end, where it all starts.

The third-down sacks are critical ones, 'cause that's getting off the field.