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Many activists and antagonists who are on the wrong side of an issue employ the tactic of, 'the best defense is a good offense.'
That's what we're here for as quarterbacks is to help our team win, lead the offense down the field and put points on the board.
Coach Kingsbury, I know the type of offense he runs. He recruited me out of high school and I have a great relationship with him.
I'd love to be a consultant and help design an offense. That's my true passion, and I want to find an outlet where I can do that.
Bobby Knight told me this: 'There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.' In other words a good offense wins.
I'm not worried about offense. I've always had that, but I can get better defensively and that in turn will make my offense better.
I've analyzed the best I can... and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course.
It ought to be an offense to be excruciating and unfunny in circumstances where your audience is almost morally obliged to enthuse.
When I first got to Toronto, we were last in defense, 20-something in offense, we were the laughing stock in the Eastern Conference.
Tom Ford once told me that he found French women sexier than American ones. He said, 'Americans are too clean...' I took no offense.
There's always room to improve, so I'm going to continue to improve on defense, offense, being consistent and continuing to play hard.
A major theme in all my books is that the CIA is not only the first line of defense but they should also be the first line of offense.
Whenever you are coaching, you are trying to get the most balanced team that you can: balance between defense, offense, and rebounding.
My biggest problem when I was younger was trying to balance my ability with what the team needed me to do to officially run the offense.
Trigger warnings are an instantiation of the West's zeitgeist of perpetual offense and victimhood that defines much of public discourse.
I find the game mentally challenging and really enjoy the chess match that occurs every week between the offense and the opposing defense.
There's three parts to football: offense, defense, and special teams. You'd no more ignore special teams than you would offense or defense.
I was very involved defensively at Florida, and regardless of popular opinion, I wasn't as much on offense. Should have been, but I wasn't.
The triangle itself is just an offense based on freedom of the ball to go to different places, everybody feeling involved. It's a good thing.
I just think I've got to be more aggressive at both ends of the floor. When I'm aggressive on the defensive end it really helps me on offense.
We have what we call a dictator offense. We dictate to defenses by making them do what we want them to do. And we do it by creating formations.
Defense is on the fly, it's reactive; you have to react to the offense. I have to prevent someone from doing something when they want to do it.
When you play quarterback and the offense doesn't play well, a lot of that is because of the quarterback. You're going to receive the criticism.
One of the main reasons I went to Stanford was to run in a pro-style offense and show I can run between the tackles 25 to 30 times consistently.
I've been in international competition, and now I know what the big boys can do. You don't go out and just run. There's an offense and a defense.
The only defense is offense, which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly than the enemy if you wish to save yourselves.
To be really honest, I do not mind whether it is offense or defense. I just like being in on plays and doing what needs to be done to help us win.
A lot of people in Islamic countries are taking it as a personal offense when people are talking about the violence against women in their culture.
Phil Jackson was a brilliant basketball coach, not just because of the offense that he employed, but it was so many other things that went into it.
Joe Prunty will take over, and he will run the team. But nobody gets out of their lane. Joe will still be offense, and Sweeney will still be defense.
I think whether home or away, it's playing a full four quarters, doing good things on offense all the way through the game rather than just in spurts.
In the NBA, it's different. You must do everything. Defense, offense, shooting, everything. I wanted to prove myself here and I will prove myself here.
When I first became a head coach in Toronto, I was more of a dictator, wanted to do everything, all the development, defense, offense, whatever it was.
I'm working on everything, especially staying balanced when I shoot the ball. That's the biggest thing, as well as taking good shots within the offense.
Restorative justice says "No, the offense affected a relationship" and what you are seeking for is to restore the relationship, to heal the relationship.
As we've seen, deploying large armies abroad won't always be our best offense. Countries typically don't want foreign soldiers in their cities and towns.
My reads, operation with the offense, timing with the receivers, routes, sitting in the pocket, trusting my line - everything is always a work in progress.
Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; few people are modest enough not to take offense that one appreciates them.
I've been on some really good teams, but we weren't able to get over the hump. It's offense, defense and special teams, and then the ball has to go your way.
I don't really compare myself to a lot of other running backs - that's no offense to any other running back, but just the fact that I can see and avoid hits.
I think any time an offense struggles with developing a rhythm, struggles with scoring points, I think the first thing you have to examine is the quarterback.
I think fans are so brought up in a culture of rooting for a team since they were kids, ostensibly, and are blind to this idea that people might take offense.
I gotta defend, I gotta protect the rim, I gotta rebound, I gotta set good picks for the guys, finish on offense, and I think that is not going to change much.
Blacks were more likely to be sentenced to prison following a conviction, but that result reflected their past crimes and the gravity of their current offense.
It is not a crime nor an impeachable offense to engage in inappropriate personal conduct; nor is it a crime to obstruct or conceal an embarrassing relationship.
I like playmakers, man, if it's a playmaker on defense or offense, just a guy who is going to put up some points, a guy who's going to be able to change the game.
If I was going to play offense, I'd love to play running back. In high school I played quarterback and wide receiver, but I wouldn't mind running over some folks.
I always try to play hard as possible to help my team - it doesn't matter if it's on defense or offense. I would say when I was young I was playing like that, too.
Jay Cutler is a first-round pick, had a great arm, etc. It's just - he's offense, I'm defense. We didn't get a chance to interact as much as we should have, maybe.
To me, a critic is some loser who has no idea... someone with an opinion. We all have opinions. No offense, but what makes them dictate what is cool and what is not.