Top 175 Offense Quotes

Private emails between friends and colleagues written in haste and without much thought or sensitivity, even when the content of them is meant to be in jest, can result in offense where none was intended.

I’m a good rebounder, good on switching screens good defender; I’m looking to improve my offense and hopefully I can go out there show what I can do.

It’s difficult when you step out there with somebody like me and my offense.

Offense is great, but defense wins championships.

If I have to score baskets then I have to try to score baskets and stop missing shots, but even if it’s not going, I need to be able to have another phase of the game and not let my offense take away from my defense or rebounds.

Obviously, if you are playing against a guy who is known for an up-tempo offense, you’ll probably tailor your practice a little bit to say, ‘Hey, let’s get a couple of fast-paced plays back to back to back to try to simulate that.’

I think there’s a lot that goes into an offense, obviously.

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

Other fans get antsy when their team’s offense struggles to score for a few possessions. Blazers fans give us standing ovations, like they’re trying to will their energy into us.

Forgiveness is not a feeling – it’s a decision we make because we want to do what’s right before God. It’s a quality decision that won’t be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense.

We need to play tough defense and have a sound offense. But mostly, we have to outrebound the other team.

I had a vision of how basketball should be played. And the vision was the Knicks teams that won the championship in 1970 and 1973. I wanted a team that emphasized defense. I wanted a team that on offense had a system where players moved off the ball, and the ball moved.

Republicans spend too much time on defense. We have to be on offense. We have to point out the truth. President Obama stole seven hundred million dollars from Medicare. Republicans want to preserve Medicare. Obamacare robs from Medicare.

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.

I learned that getting a movie made in Hollywood is a near impossibility, and the process can be a wild adventure. TV is a lot more consistently productive – no offense to the beautiful world of feature film.

My job is to protect the football and score points and lead this offense on drives to score points.

Giving a 10-year mandatory minimum for a second offense fist fight is not going to reduce the chance that someone will be stabbed 16 times when you are not funding any of the programs that are desperately needed to actually reduce juvenile crime.

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.

Anytime that anyone can create some explosive plays, get first downs, we’re going to have more plays on offense.

Severities should be dealt out all at once, so that their suddenness may give less offense; benefits ought to be handed ought drop by drop, so that they may be relished the more.

I was letting the lack of touches on offense really affect my defense.

I don’t love playing zone all the time, because it does have an effect on your offense.

Most songwriters who have been lucky enough to have their song on the radio or be heard widely don’t know anything about science. The best songs have a strong dose of metaphor. Most songs about science don’t have that. Like ‘She Blinded Me With Science.’ It’s a stupid song, no offense to Thomas Dolby.

Every year, you try to evolve a little bit. You try to introduce new elements to your offense.

There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.

If you give Brett Favre time to throw the ball and single coverage, you’re making the offense that much better.

When fans showed up at Candlestick, there was a great sense of anticipation that they would watch not only winning football, but also artistry. Our offense was that sublime.

Poets have to be sensitive to their audience, but it does not mean that they censor themselves. I realise my audience is diverse. Some will read with empathy and curiosity while others will take offense.

We needed to go back on the offense and offer clear leadership on Iraq.

Trigger warnings are an instantiation of the West’s zeitgeist of perpetual offense and victimhood that defines much of public discourse.

It’s like I was taught and I’m always saying it. Offense wins games, defense wins championships.

You have not just weekly ratings, but minutes where they say during a show, ‘This guy’s boring, get him off.’ This has produced a thing in our society where we have no shame and the worst offense is to be boring.

On September 11, 2001, we thought we were going to be attacked many, many times between then and now. We haven’t been. I believe we had a president who made the right decision at the right time… to put us on offense against terrorists.

Bobby Knight told me this: ‘There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.’ In other words a good offense wins.

If I can defend, I find that my offense just comes to me.

Arizona’s law makes what is already a federal offense – being in the country illegally – a state offense. Some critics seem not to understand Arizona’s right to assert concurrent jurisdiction.

When you’re desperate, it’s good on defense because your hair should be on fire, but it’s bad on offense.

The framers understood that the president, as the head of our armed forces, must defend the nation from imminent threat. But when the mission shifts from defense to offense, congressional approval is essential.

Welcome to the Salvation Army. I’ve never been associated with an offense so nice about giving the ball away.

We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

For me I think the pressure Chael Sonnen brings is hard to match with his offense, takedowns, ground and pound, hand in the face and dropping elbows and shots. It kind of wears down a fighter.

The triangle is a foundation to an offense.

Soccer helped especially with my footwork. When I played soccer, I was on offense scoring goals – I didn’t pass the ball so much so it probably didn’t help much with being a point guard.

Defense doesn’t sell as much as offense.

It’s a much easier job when you know what to expect on offense.

Being a two-way player that’s consistently transitioning from offense to defense, it’s imperative I fuel my body with an all-natural source of performance energy like Glukos that keeps my energy levels high.

Whenever you are coaching, you are trying to get the most balanced team that you can: balance between defense, offense, and rebounding.

No offense, but I don’t get the whole concept of arranged marriage. I’d rather know the person who I’ll settle down with.

Before you beat a child, be sure yourself are not the cause of the offense.

A lot of the better offenses sacrifice defense to be a good offense and I’m not interested in doing that.

I love the triangle. It’s a great offense if you execute it well.

I didn’t think I was going to school to be a doctor – no offense, but that wasn’t me.

In middle school, I played quarterback. I was at a tiny school, so you played offense and defense – I played linebacker, and in high school I stopped playing around my sophomore year because of my acting stuff.

Strictly speaking, every citizen above a certain level of income is guilty of some offense.

A lot of times, people think of selfish, and they think of offense, but you can be selfish on the defensive end of the floor, too. If you don’t uphold your end of our schemes and your responsibilities within those schemes, then you’re being just as selfish.

One game, one of the kids yelled, ‘The only thing Riverses are good at is coaching.’ I didn’t take offense, I just smiled.

It’s fun leading this offense. I don’t think we’ve hit our peak.

Our offense is like the pythagorean theorem: There is no answer!

If I were a high school coach, I would put my best players on offense. The best athletes on my team, I would give them the ball and score points. I wouldn’t play them on defense. I would play them where they can get the ball and score points.

I had to earn everything. So to have an opportunity to be a primary perimeter option on the offense is really something that I really enjoy.

Thou shalt not steal. I mean defensively. On offense, indeed thou shall steal and thou must.

It’s tough for a jump shooter, especially in a triangle offense.

You want to be on the offense and make the defense react. I feel like that.

Sometimes offense wins. Sometimes pitching wins.

Football is a game of zone blitzes, West Coast offenses and check-offs, sure, but it’s really a game of field position: Even without a touchdown, a solid return game can quietly be the difference between an offense that’s pinned against its own goal line and one that’s in the driver’s seat to score.