Hulu understood how much content costs. By remaining defensive, YouTube is losing various aspects of video – long-form, for example – to other companies.
I really don’t look at myself as a defensive end or a linebacker or a cornerback or a safety. I don’t try to limit myself to just rushing the passer or dropping back in coverage or being a run-stopper; I try to be great at football.
The more defensive and angry I get, the more I later discover those feelings are usually just projections of feelings I am having towards myself.
In general, higher education does not know how to speak for its interests. It offers a stance that is defensive, cowardly and likely to be ineffective.
Very often, when you get into a conversation that’s more of a debate, you’ll pick up that the other person is venting at you. And when someone vents at you, it triggers a reaction. You get defensive and vent back.
In college, my best friends were an offensive lineman, a wide receiver and defensive back. In the pros, when you leave the practice field, players go their separate ways because they are married.
The Hit Stick is a tremendous invention. It really gave you control as a defensive player because most of the time, ‘Madden’ is such an offensive game. But the Hit Stick really gave you the opportunity to shine on defense for the first time.
In my day, defenders played you with two hands and an elbow. You’re not getting by a guy, especially if he has an elbow and a hand on you and is a strong defensive player.
It is apparent that Christianity and Islam must come, and come immediately, to a closer understanding, and it is equally apparent that their unity if achieved, will be the most effective defensive measure against Communist expansion.
I care about all the characters I play, and I get quite defensive about them.
Everyone talks about the good old days, when guys were tough and quarterbacks got crushed all the time, but back in the day, there weren’t defensive ends that were Mario Williams – 6-7, 300 pounds, 10 percent body fat, running a 4.7 40.
I’ve started most of the time I’ve been in a Knick jersey, so I just think they want me to bring a certain energy every night. They want me to bring that defensive presence because they know I can make something out of nothing on defense, and I think they just want me to bring that defensive presence every day.
Having a good defensive line allows you to play better because it’s less stressful in terms of defending.
The only way you’re gonna eliminate helmet-to-helmet contact is to take the helmets off. Go back to leather helmets. I mean, I think a defensive player would be much less inclined to lead with his head if he had no protection.
I’m just getting a lot more opportunity than I got my second year in Phoenix. Here defensively with the Heat, I’m on a lot more tough defensive assignments. They trust me.
I was a gang leader. Although, it was a gang for defensive purposes. It was not a gang to sell drugs.
As the U.S., much of Europe, and the U.K. shift toward the political right, the rhetoric grows more insular, defensive, and protective.
I can be the only defensive midfielder and try and break up play. Or I can play a little more forward.
We had to play both ways on the field, so I was offensive center and defensive end.
Mourinho criticised Eden Hazard for not doing his defensive duties. Eden Hazard is the type of player that you take that responsibility off.
You could kind of guess if you bring in Peanut Tillman to the defensive team meeting – yeah, it’s all about turnovers and getting after the ball.
Everything has changed. An interview has become such a confrontational thing. It makes you very defensive.
Contrary to conventional military and game theory, the most effective offense is sometimes a direct attack against your political opponent’s greatest strength – not his weaknesses – to place him immediately on the defensive.
1958 was my first year as a defensive backfield coach at Florida State. I remember one thing about that game: It was so cold. It was freezing.
You can be a great defensive player, and if you don’t put up splash statistics, then you’re not going to get noticed.
I always try to go in there and stick to my base, which is the defensive end, and then just let the offense come to me.
In Italy, they are incredibly competitive. It may be that their game is more defensive, but they defend so well; here in Germany, there is more speed and intensity. In England, they are more direct, very box-to-box.
It’s absolutely philistine not to recognize what a great book ‘An American Dream’ is. Norman Mailer is his own worst enemy, and if you don’t catch him in a defensive position, he’ll admit it. I’d really like to help that man.
I pride myself on setting tough picks and going out there and being physical. And on the defensive end, players drive the lane, I’m either going to try to take a charge on you or foul you pretty hard.
Fort Leavenworth is in fact no fort, being without defensive works, except two block-houses.
In my country, they used to call players who play in my position a defensive midfielder, but it is not defensive.
Slowly from just touching the ball I got to making the ball and eventually hitting a decent defensive shot. Because I don’t have a lot of weapons I have to use my speed.
It’s something that I have to learn to do: affect the game in a different way. If I don’t get it on the offensive end, try to get it on the defensive end.
It’s true that my body’s not small and my style is not defensive. I am aggressive, and I am tall.
This country cannot afford the deceptive luxury of waging defensive warfare.
We’ve been a bit too defensive about the European Union rules. We don’t want to become protectionist and nationalist in the way we buy things but we think we could do a lot more to promote British business through procurement.
I recruit defensive players first. That’s where most games are won. Then you’ve got to get the offensive linemen.
I think I’ve gotten more comfortable and more confident on the defensive end. I’ve just been able to anticipate things a little bit better instead of reacting to how guys play offensively.
The idea that a war can be won by standing on the defensive and waiting for the enemy to attack is a dangerous fallacy, which owes its inception to the desire to evade the price of victory.
Holly Holm was a boxer for a long time, and Leslie Smith comes from muay thai. It’s different. Holly is more defensive, while Leslie comes forward.
There’s a general sense that women are more relaxed and less defensive in comedy than they used to be. I think it’s easier than it was but underlying it all there is still a pretty sexist view of women on stage, which to me hasn’t changed that much.
Defensive awards and accolades aside, to have your jersey retired puts you in a position where you’ll be known forever.
An interview has become such a confrontational thing. It makes you very defensive.
I think when you’re a very good defensive team – it’s very rare a team wins a championship when you’re not a very good defensive team.
A disciplined, patient, defensive period in a Test match is not old fashioned and boring – it’s essential.
The value in having bigs that have the ability to shoot from the perimeter has increased and having bigs that have the defensive versatility to not only protect the rim, but to switch out and defend smaller guards, the value of that has also increased.
This is the pinnacle of the basketball world, you know, in the NBA you’re playing against the best guys in the world, and best defensive players in the world, so you have to be able to outthink them and make the right decisions.
Normally, I could hit hard enough, as anyone who studied my fights might have known. But the impression was that I was essentially defensive, the very reverse of a killer, the prize fighter who read books, even Shakespeare.
I am a midfielder who is mainly involved in the defensive phases, even if I also like to help build moves – I would say that my foremost quality is my generosity.
I prefer defensive midfielder because I know my job when I play there. More things are in front of you.
We don’t like talking about race in the U.K. – it’s a very sensitive subject. People get extremely defensive and run for the covers, but I believe we have to talk about it.
Tanks being deployed far forward is an indication of offensive action; tanks in depth is an indication of defensive action.
A preoccupation with theory has been a defensive response by academic biographers in this country, I submit, to the condescension of traditional humanists and social scientists pervading higher education for many years.
Under the Trump administration, the traditional structure of White House oversight of American offensive and defensive cyberactivities is being dismantled.
Obviously, like anything else, I have views on how we should play defense but I don’t call the defensive plays. I have views on how I want us to run our offense but I don’t call our offensive plays. It’s in collaboration with Phil Snow, with Joe Brady, with all of our coaches.
It’s a natural thing for people to say, you know, Who’s in this book? I find myself get ting a little defensive. People come along and I’m waiting for that first question.
