Top 215 Attacking Quotes

In Australia you can be a little bit more attacking, in places on the subcontinent you’ve got to find ways to get batsmen out, you might have to bore them out.
Steve Smith
For heaven’s sake, when you see the enemy attacking, you pick up the pitchfork, and you enlist everybody you see. You don’t stand around arguing about who’s responsible, or who’s going to pay.
Sylvia Earle
I like to play attacking, like a winger, or an attacking midfielder, so it depends on the coach, where he’s looking at me for which position.
Henrikh Mkhitaryan
Not too many people present a good ground game from the bottom. They survive a little bit, and it’s kind of boring. But not too many people are attacking from the bottom, hurting with elbows. They don’t bring that kind of game because it takes a long time to develop.
Brian Ortega
I think it is important to ask ourselves as citizens, not as Democrats attacking the administration, but as citizens, whether a world power can really provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety?
Zbigniew Brzezinski
I don’t care who is attacking my son. I still support him; I still love him.
Magic Johnson
Part of being a Manchester United player under Sir Alex Ferguson, perhaps the most important part of being one of United’s attacking players was that when you were in possession, you had to take risks in order to create goal-scoring chances. It was not an option; it was an obligation.
Paul Scholes
Italy do not only defend; they can attack, too. They have attacking qualities, and they create chances.
Julen Lopetegui
I think Sadio Mane is lucky the way Liverpool play. His job is pretty much to stay on one half of the field. Yes, he does come back and help out defensively every now and again, but generally he’s told to stay in the attacking half of the field and go at defenders.
Steve Nicol
I don’t want to disrespect anyone, but it’s clear that any team which has the chance to play with Messi, Suarez, and Neymar has devastating attacking power, which any coach would love at his disposal.
Gianluigi Buffon
Anytime you get good service to the box, it’s always great as an attacking player because it gives you more opportunities to score.
Clint Dempsey
As an actor, my main focus is finding good writing and

As an actor, my main focus is finding good writing and attacking a good role.
Amanda Peet
Reading a brief filled with ad hominem attacks is like listening to my kids fight, except that I have to wait until we’re in the courtroom to tell the attacking lawyer what I think about it.
Raymond Kethledge
Instead of attacking and dividing our people, I’ll be a governor laser-focused on creating opportunity for all Kentuckians. I’ll expand growth industries like agritech and advanced manufacturing.
Andy Beshear
Scientists are doing an awful lot of damage to the world in the name of helping it. I don’t mind attacking my own fraternity because I am ashamed of it.
Kary Mullis
Attacking school segregation requires all hands on deck. We in the charter sector must move beyond our traditional comfort zone, serving disadvantaged students, and meet the demands of parents who have other high quality options.
Eva Moskowitz
Fonseca allows me to play both offensively and defensively, and my main task is to change the direction of attacking moves.
Fred
I knew Manuel Pellegrini from my time in Spain. I’d only heard good things about him, that he was someone who instilled the confidence in his players to go out and play good, attacking football.
Sergio Aguero
It’s always good for us to score as attacking players and to help the team get the three points.
Jesse Lingard
From Obama to Michael Bloomberg, Dianne Feinstein, Michael Moore, Rosie O’Donnell and the rest of the media-political elite, the whole time they’re attacking your right to own a gun, they’re enjoying armed security for themselves.
Wayne LaPierre
We, we – as I say, we go in and shake up other industries and I think, you know, we do it differently and I think that industries are not quite the same as a result of Virgin attacking the market.
Richard Branson
I look for players who do not just score goals but provide an attacking point, linking with other players and able to see the third man as well. Van Persie is one of the best strikers around at that.
Louis van Gaal
The late Christopher Hitchens had the professional contrarian’s fixation on attacking sacred cows, and rather soon after his cancer diagnosis, he became one himself.
Alex Pareene
The important thing to understand, from my point of view, is if the opponents break our lines and they are attacking our box, something has gone wrong, and it is me who has to fix it. But fouls in football are normal. You have to do it sometimes.
Fernandinho
Joe Biden and the radical, anti-gun Democrats want to unleash the ATF on law-abiding gun owners across America, attacking our God-given Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms.
Marjorie Taylor Greene
Typically, you’ll see that zones work better in November than in February. As the season goes on, teams get better and better at attacking zones, and it becomes harder to become an effective zone defense as the season progresses. But early on, it can be can good at times.
Ben Howland
It’s unbelievable, there’s a book out attacking Gore, when he’s the most unfortunate loser in political history.
Vincent Bugliosi
When we are thinking in an attacking moment, I want the goalkeeper thinking, for that, he is the first. The same when we are thinking defensively – I want our strikers to be thinking, ‘We need to protect the goalkeepers.’ I want those two moments to feel the same for all players.
Unai Emery
Russia has had very aggressive military exercises. They’ve practiced mock nuclear attacks on Warsaw. Russian bombers practiced attacking strategic military targets in Sweden. The military aggression gets everybody nervous.
Toomas Hendrik Ilves
You won’t see Christians violently attacking people for criticising their religion like you do with Islam, things like the Charlie Hebdo attack.
Lauren Southern
Again and again since 9/11, terror attacks in the West have been carried out by second-generation Muslims who are citizens of the very country they are attacking.
Peter Bergen
When someone mentions my name because they’re attacking someone that I’m close with, it’s my problem now.
Rick Ross
I like to play attacking football, but I think the big difference is that we expect a lot more from our strikers, to do more pressing and to keep compact. We like to play a high line defensively and press the ball.
Ronald Koeman
I was a No. 9 for so long and that’s what I knew. And I think, me as an attacking midfielder, or any kind of midfielder, I should be in and around the box and have that mindset that I’m going to score and help my team as much as possible.
Lindsey Horan
I’ve played a lot of different positions, and when I’ve played in my favourite position as an attacking midfielder, I played well, I was important and created a lot of occasions.
Andreas Pereira
Attacking innocent people is always obscene.
Ayman Odeh
It’s a big part of my game, attacking.
Kyle Walker
I believe in not attacking a country pre-emptively unless you’re sure of what you’re doing and you’re working with allies.
Al Franken
I’m attacking the pomposity that says this is more valuable than that. I’m sick of that.
Billy Corgan
I have always been an attacking bowler. I am more than happy to go for a few runs and get a few wickets.
Imran Tahir
Our country will, I believe, sooner forgive an officer for attacking an enemy than for letting it alone.
Horatio Nelson
Wherever I am on the field, I’m just trying to be an attacking presence and constantly be on their back four and try to make a difference in that way. So it doesn’t matter where I play for my club.
Christian Pulisic
Osama bin Laden fervently hoped that attacking the Unit

Osama bin Laden fervently hoped that attacking the United States would create pressure on American leaders to reduce their support for Middle Eastern regimes. Bin Laden believed that without that American support, the Arab regimes would collapse and would be replaced by Taliban-style rulers.
Peter Bergen
It must be born in mind that one does not see directly – as is the case in the exploration of the surface of the brain – where the electrodes are attacking.
Walter Rudolf Hess
I just wanted to get back to playing attacking football after my time in Italy. It was a little difficult at first but the atmosphere and the fans were just fantastic.
Dennis Bergkamp
I’m not going to back down one bit in attacking Trump.
Seth Moulton
Attacking me and Fox News is nothing new – it’s a cottage industry.
Roger Ailes
Michael, to me, he was an assassin. He was one of those guys that prepared himself extremely well and was relentless in his attacking. And there are a few guys who have that mentality. I think Kobe Bryant has that type of mentality, and LeBron has that type of mentality.
David Robinson
There is nothing worse than a politician that gets defensive and starts attacking the media – and it always looks bad for the politician, because you sign up for this. You live by the sword, you die by the sword.
Gavin Newsom
Zidane has tried to get me to improve. Anticipating, reading the play, putting myself in the defensive balance, I know how to do all this. So he expects the same finesse in an attacking sense.
Raphael Varane
Bullying is the result of an unequal power dynamic – the strong attacking the weak.
Maria Konnikova
I think I can improve in my attacking role, I can do more.
N’Golo Kante
Now and again, you may be picking a pass or two in behind, making something happen, but when we’re attacking – especially at Liverpool – I’m focusing on protection, being disciplined, being careful, worrying about counter-attacks, things like that.
Jordan Henderson
I play a lot quicker, in quite an attacking style, play a few little crazy shots sometimes that other players wouldn’t take.
Judd Trump
I like to play attacking shots, even if it is in the first over of the game. If I get out playing attacking shots, then so be it.
Prithvi Shaw
When the King is checked, or any valuable Piece in danger from the attack of an enemy, you are said to interpose a man when you play it between the attacked and attacking Piece.
Howard Staunton