Top 100 Defenders Quotes

Defenders must be careful yet decisive when taking action.

When you’re a striker, you want to play all the games, and most chances come at the end because defenders are tired.

Communication is something that I find if don’t do, I will go missing, I won’t be fully focused. If I’m constantly giving messages to the defenders not only do they know where they are but I am switched on and in the right position. It all links together.

I bring a lot to a team. I bring immediate impact. As far as my skillset, I can attack defenders in multiple ways and get my teammates involved.

Of course defenders will try to provoke me – that is their job.

Some Brexiteers are passionate defenders of the benefits of immigration. Others just can’t wait to slam the doors shut.

And I have a message for the liberals and the defenders of the status quo: we’re just getting started.

I love Land Rover Defenders. I love ’em. I love the old 90 Defender; it’s my favorite car. I just see one – even the 110 – but if I just see one of those things parked, I just stop in my tracks every time.

Donald Trump’s more sophisticated defenders have long since mastered the art of pretending that the only thing that matters with his presidency is what it does, not what he says.

The civil war across the Middle East between the Shia and the Sunni empowers groups like ISIS and al Qaeda who claim to be the defenders of Sunni rights against Shia attack.

Presnel Kimpembe has everything to become one of the best defenders in Europe.

For years, the defenders of television have argued that the networks are only giving the people what they want. That might be true. But so is the Medellin cartel.

I remember the best defenders were Baresi and Cannavaro – you don’t have to be really tall.

The space between keepers and defenders is referred to as the ‘corridor of opportunity’ – a well-hit pass in there has the goalie questioning whether to come into traffic and defenders unsure of whether or where to clear the ball.

If they want to do a ‘Defenders 2,’ I’m in.

You can’t ask every player to do the same thing. That’s why we have amazing midfielders, defenders, forwards and keepers. You can’t ask them to be of the same mold.

You know that without the whole team working together, it’s a very hard job for the defenders, so everyone plays a part.

I think you say that strikers win you games, but defenders win titles and I think that’s really important.

In the pocket, you do have some protections, but you get out of the pocket, and defenders’ eyes get big. Sometimes you learn that the hard way.

Mario Mandzukic works so hard for his team. He’s not only a No. 9 but also runs behind the defenders and drops into midfield.

I love good and caring lawyers who are advocates, who are defenders, who are problem-solvers, and who are peacemakers.

Two English defenders were among the finest I played against: John Terry and Rio Ferdinand.

You’re always facing the top defenders in this league. To go out there and do your best, that’s all you can ask for.

I think I can play with three defenders. I’m capable of doing it.

It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.

My back to the goal, physically fighting off defenders, trying to bang my goals in, every week I have to do the business for this club. That’s the life of a striker.

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.

A striker scores goals, but the goalkeepers saves them, the defenders close chances down, and all the credit is shared out.

You see, your nose is the respiratory front line. It’s the warning beacon that invaders have overwhelmed your first response defenders.

The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.

I think people should recognise that I’m one of the best defenders in the world and not just talk nonsense, I will say.

Obviously, as defenders, we can see the game in front of us, so a lot of it is just communicating with people and just backing each other.

If you play for managers like Karl Robinson, it’s about your development, but there are times when you have to stick up for yourself and let defenders know you are around when nobody is looking.

The most important thing is to help the team to come in front of the goal with one-two passes, I drop down, or I give them space, because for defenders, it’s always difficult to have a false nine because they don’t have a direct player against them, so they don’t know exactly what to do.

You have to win the title with a strong team and a strong defence, but I don’t only like to talk about the four defenders and the goalkeeper when you concede goals. It’s about the team.

The core distortion of the War on Terror under both Bush and Obama is the Orwellian practice of equating government accusations of terrorism with proof of guilt. One constantly hears U.S. government defenders referring to ‘terrorists’ when what they actually mean is: those accused by the government of terrorism.

The strikers are the first defenders. And the first defender is the first striker to build from the back.

I have always been small, so defenders have always been taller and tougher than me. So that’s difficult for me; they foul me sometimes, but there you are – that’s what the rules of the game are for.

Defenders don’t really get any sort of notoriety or anything like that.

Liberals are stalwart defenders of civil liberties – provided we’re only talking about criminals.

There are a lot of teams that don’t want to play, that only want to defend against Barcelona, and that makes it difficult. We’re always looking for the open space. A lot of times we’ll face six defenders and four midfielders.

Defenders tend to leave me open on the elbow and when I step out, so it was only the smart thing to do to start to knock down the shots so they can’t leave me open up there.

To hear both critics and defenders talk about the fitness of Judge Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court, you’d think the most successful Supreme Court justices had been warm, collegial consensus-builders. But history tells a different story.

The toughest opponents for me are the defenders who are tough in the way they play – where you can’t see a way through.

For many Mexican human rights defenders, confronting the military does not end so well.

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

Against West Brom, you are up against very tall defenders, who are very strong, and you have to be strong, too, to keep the ball.

Defenders see things way different than blockers.

With ‘Defenders,’ we had some very barebones ideas, but the bulk of it came together very quickly over in Ibiza. The main thing I like about that record, looking back on it now, is the change in the texture of the production from ‘Screaming For Vengeance.’

It’s not only Van Dijk who can stop Ronaldo. But Ronaldo is good enough to create against really good defenders.

Honestly, it was just tiring going straight from one show to the other. I filmed ‘Iron Fist,’ and then I had a two week break, and I went straight into ‘The Defenders.’

More than 100 people have been sent to death row who were later exonerated because they weren’t guilty or fairly tried. Most criminal defendants do not get adequate representation because there are not enough public defenders to represent them. There is a lot that is wrong.

Prosecutors and public defenders deserve to make a living wage.

Contemporary defenders of the Enlightenment shouldn’t overgeneralize: the Enlightenment, however it is defined, is not an unalloyed good.

In tactics and training, we do more with Conte. We work a lot of tactical positions, and we know exactly what we have to do on the pitch, where I have to go, and where the defenders have to go. We know exactly what to do.

I started shooting ‘The Defenders’ two days after I wrapped’ Friday Night Lights.’ I was doing research for ‘The Defenders’ throughout – interviewing lawyers and sitting in courtrooms just to watch – but there’s something fun about throwing yourself in the water and learning by doing.

If you smash a city when you’re trying to capture it, you actually end up providing the perfect terrain for the defenders while blocking the access for your own armoured vehicles.

It’s a bitter thing to have one or more defenders missing.

Without being arrogant, I think I have proved I am one of the best defenders in the world.

When I think about defending Kyrie, I think about respect. His shooting percentages were close to 50/40/90 as a 19-year-old rookie. When you come into this league with numbers like that, defenders have to respect your jumper.

Barcelona don’t bring in players for the sake of ‘well if things get tough, we can always bring defenders on or we can have a guy in the middle who is going to run around and kick people and chase them.’

Sometimes defenders kick me without the ball and I don’t say anything and no one sees.

My compatriot Diego Godin is one of the best defenders in the world, good enough to play for any team in any league.

The people standing up most strongly for our democracies should be celebrated, not prosecuted – be it those countless human rights defenders who defend all our rights or the brave whistle-blowers who expose tax dodging.

I am always shocked that there are still a handful of defenders of the dubious practice of abstinence, surely the worst idea since chocolate-covered ants.

Two of the chief defenders of the faith in the Old Testament and in the New – Moses and Paul – were both well-versed in the language, the thinking, and the philosophy of their cultures.

The defenders can be clever and use everything within the laws of the game to stop the strikers scoring goals and, while some pulling is allowed, you need to be clever.

The manager might like it sometimes when I play up front because I can cause trouble for the defenders, but for me, my best position is defensive midfield, stopping the opposition, and then looking to impose myself on a game.

Detroit has a history of a lot of great rebounders and big guys that have been great defenders. So for me to pick up where they left off and continue that trend, of being a gritty, tough big man is pretty cool.

Then, in that hour of deliverance, my heart spoke. Does not such a country, and such defenders of their country, deserve a song?

Since my early days, I’ve been used to playing with older boys and strong defenders.

As a winger, you want to get at defenders and make it hard for them. Instead of them going forwards, they have to defend against you.

From the smallest misdemeanor up to the biggest crime, everyone is brought before a judge. And that means there’s a huge backlog in the American legal system. There are prosecutors and public defenders and judges who are trying to keep their head above water in the tide of this bureaucracy and red tape.

Having caught up with a myth like Sivori is something I will treasure forever. I am proud. He used to entertain and bamboozle defenders with his exceptional technique.

I know what it means to play for a big club. Big clubs, it’s like that: if you win, everything is good. If you lose, it’s your fault, especially defenders and goalkeepers.

Iran’s continued, widespread persecution of ethnic minorities, human rights defenders and political prisoners is a disgrace and stands as a shameful indictment of Iran’s leaders.

As a striker, you are playing against big defenders. They try to throw you around. I try to play in behind them, and I need power. I know that I have to go to the gym and train. I train all the time.

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.

Harry Kane, for example, is a really physical striker but also really skilful. He surprises lot of defenders, but he won’t surprise me.

‘Defenders’ seems to have a really gritty, hard, uncomplicated vibe about it. Somehow, we made everything sound stronger and more precise than on ‘Screaming Vengeance’ through Tom Allom’s amazing mixing skills.

The Scottish game is not easy – far from it.You don’t have so much time on the ball. There are aggressive defenders but it is good. Every opponent likes to mark closely so it is not so easy to score. In Germany there was more space to run into other areas of the pitch.

You have some defenders who don’t like you and you don’t like them. And you know from the first minute, they’re going to do everything to take you out of the game.

Every time Luis Suarez is close, he pushes defenders around.

Sometimes you can get sloppy and control the ball right at your feet, and that gives the defenders a chance.

The defenders, they get all psyched up to play against me. I know it means a lot to them if they can keep me from scoring.

You want to play against the best defenders and the best teams. You want to test yourself.

How can you not score goals in Barca! While defenders have trouble dealing with Messi, Villa and Bojan, they forgot about me.

For ideas to prevail, many of their defenders have to die in obscurity. Their anonymous influence makes itself felt.

The paradigm of competition is a race: by rewarding the winner, we encourage everyone to run faster. When capitalism really works this way, it does a good job; but its defenders are wrong in assuming it always works this way.

When counterterrorist policies are used to suppress peaceful protests and legitimate opposition movements, shut down debate, target human rights defenders, or stigmatize minorities, they fail, and we all lose. Indeed, such responses may cause further resentment and instability and contribute to radicalization.

I realised when I was a striker that when I ended up wide on the left or right, it can be so much easier to get space and face defenders up.

I like to battle with defenders if I have to. I don’t know where it comes from; I am not a nasty guy.

Defending is not only done by the defenders, just as attacking is not only down to the forwards.

For more than two centuries, the defenders of liberty have put their lives on the line, because they have known that we cannot take our freedoms for granted.

Of course the defenders are trying to be physical with me. They look at me, 7-3, skinny, they try to be physical.

First of all, I am and I remain a goalkeeper, but I try to be involved as much as I can and to help the defenders. I try to read dangerous situations in advance.

You don’t need only your strikers. You need your defenders to be on top of their game. You need a midfield to work hard and track back, and I suppose you need a goalkeeper who makes saves once in a while.

I feel like I can be one of the top defenders in the league and that’s what I’m going to try to be.

Well I grew up following most of the major titles like ‘Fantastic Four,’ ‘Spider-Man,’ ‘Avengers,’ etc. But I had also a lot of love for the smaller titles like ‘Master of Kung Fu,’ ‘Black Panther,’ ‘The Defenders,’ ‘Inhumans,’ and of course Power-Man and Iron Fist.’

LGBT people are some of the bravest and most potent change agents and leaders I have encountered, and the most forceful defenders of the vulnerable and voiceless, because they know what it’s like to be there.