I just want to be the best defensive player I can be and anything I can give us offensively is a bonus.
I could finish my career being a defensive coordinator and say, ‘Hey, he’s Mickey Andrews.’
Some actors don’t mind it. Those who are pretty. They think it’s nice to be looked at because they are nice to look at. I appreciate that. I’m very happy to salute that aspiration. But I don’t like the way I look so I don’t like being photographed. I become defensive.
Because in order to beat Jimmy, I had to get around the ball a little bit quicker so I wasn’t always on defensive and catching the ball on last stride, that I had little more time. Once I was able to get little bit quicker, then it has helped me a lot.
I want to meet Brandon Crawford and just pick his brain and figure out what helps him out on the defensive side of the ball.
I was an undersized, undertalented defensive back. I knocked myself out multiple times running into people. I ended my career without an anterior cruciate ligament. I still don’t have one. At a certain point, you realize: I’ve used up all I’ve got.
I feel like I am the best defensive player in the league.
I have already worked Dunga. He helped me at Internacional, making me a more defensive midfielder. But I can play as a first or second midfielder, like I do at Shakhtar.
Before Wenger came, Arsenal celebrated 1-0 and were based on defensive solidity. With Arsene, joy came from attacking, with players of good standing. And the perfect combination was the Invincibles. But over time, only technical quality and offensive freedom were taken care of, losing the defensive structure.
We must take the initiative; we must be permanently on the offensive. It is the battle of class struggle. We must keep the enemy always on the defensive.
When people saw that the film was called ‘White People,’ many got very defensive. I’ve been getting some very interesting emails – and I’m used to hate mail, believe me. I think this idea that we grouped white people together is offensive to people.
I don’t think you can perpetrate war crimes with defensive weapons, with air defense systems.
The way I see it, thinking about the position of the club during the swing is about the worst way to play golf. It makes you tight and defensive, which kills your natural speed and rhythm. Although there’s obvious value to minding your technique, at best you’ll play an OK round. Where’s the fun in that?
When people express opinions that differ from yours, take it as a chance to grow. Seek to understand over being understood. Be curious, not defensive. The only way to disarm another human being is by listening.
Any time you have defensive ends going above you in the draft, when you know you put up numbers that were equal to better, you just have to use that as motivation. Whenever you’re the underdog, you have to have the right attitude and just go out there and be yourself; just play.
Many white people sense that they are being blamed for the sins of white slave owners and imperialists merely through some lineage of ethnicity. Activists’ constant stress on white privilege can lead to an unhealthy defensive posture of white victimhood.
As an offensive lineman, having spatial awareness is key: understanding where the quarterback is going to be and understanding what the defensive end might do depending on the play we’re running.
Struve has great jiu-jitsu and I must avoid that. But when I’m in his guard, I can’t be defensive, I have to go for kimuras, americanas and all of that.
I want people to see me as a two-way player. A defensive player and an offensive player.
Balance is the secret for every team. There cannot be a defensive formation and an attacking formation: such a concept is a limitation.
Once people take ownership over the decision to receive feedback, they’re less defensive about it.
I was trying to be improving my game, being more aggressive, and not just playing from the defensive end.
Being a presence on the defensive end, I know that’s important to me, I have to establish that.
Anytime you’re a defensive player and your eyes aren’t on your key, you’re going to have an issue.
When you play on bad defensive teams, you get labeled as a bad defender.
If you commit to the defensive end of the floor, you’re going to have a chance to win every night. And if you’re a great defensive team, you’re going to go to the playoffs.
Any time I’m healthy I feel like I’m the best defensive player in the NFL.
You certainly grow up on the defensive when you’re related to America’s most pilloried 20th-century president.
I noticed when I started wrestling that I was a defensive wrestler and that people make mistakes.
I’ve always prided myself on being a defensive big man.
We have always found it easier, and still do, when the opponent plays football as well, when they don’t just think in defensive terms, don’t just sit inside their penalty box. It’s just nicer when the opponent plays football.
When I see one of my teammates make a good play, to keep that energy going, I feel like that’s what I do on the defensive end, and then make a good offensive play.
I don’t really mind where I play, as long as I’m playing. I’m just happy to be on the pitch – as long as it’s not defensive.
Suburbia is all about private ownership and not having to share, and it leads to a paranoid, defensive mindset. I know this, having grown up in Essex.
I’m not a defensive specialist, I’m a basketball player.
I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.
My submission to you is we’re fighting the war on terror not overseas but in our own streets, and we’d be spending vast more fortunes to try to be a defensive country to protect ourselves rather than an offensive country to spread democracy wherever people yearn for it.
A little more movement of the defensive side of the ball, some rules that will be unnoticed, but a big rule will be allowing the jack linebacker to move out of the box sideline to sideline.
I’m a great defensive wrestler.
One of my goals is to be Defensive Player of the Year. One of my goals is to be Rookie of the Year. And one of my long-term goals is to be walking across that stage with a jacket on and a nice little patch on it that says ‘Hall of Fame.’
I prefer to play in midfield, whether that is attacking midfield or defensive midfield.
When you expect to get into a negotiation, you expect to be faced by a guy that’s going to attack you, a guy or gal that’s going to attack or that they’re going to try to get the best of you. Two-thirds of us, that makes us very defensive.
I really had to create my own style, because it’s kind of hard being a 6-1 defensive end. I’m really like 6-4 – really.
I feel like every guy has a job to do on the defensive end, and that job can change night to night. My biggest thing is, I try to do my job, and compete.
When something’s wrong, even though you’re the one doing it, you shouldn’t feel defensive about it. It’s hard because you have to protect yourself as a person in your life, but you can’t protect yourself as an actor. You have to just take criticism.
Our whole philosophy was to intimidate the quarterback. We were able to do it. We were pioneers. People still recognize us as, maybe, the best defensive line of all time.
Once I got to college, I didn’t know defensive rotations; my footwork was sloppy. I used to travel every other play.
Football matters so much to people, and they get very defensive – or angry.
I’ve had so much great teaching, and I’m one of the best defensive players to ever play the game on the wing.
Iran has little capacity to deploy force. Its strategic doctrines are defensive, designed to deter invasion long enough for diplomacy to set it.
I think I’m a good offensive player, good defensive player. I do it on both ends of the floor.
I’ve always been a big fan of what Ron Rivera and Sean McDermott have been able to put together on the defensive side.
If I take a less defensive tone, I’d admit that I couldn’t write today a very jazzy, contemporary look at America as I did in 1979 in States of Desire.
The fact is football players get beat all the time in the course of a game. But if it happens to a defensive tackle, it’s usually 5 or 10 yards. With us, it’s 76 yards.
We can’t get down on one loss or one bad defensive play. We gotta play through it.
General Grant had no fixed plan of campaign beyond the general idea to avoid the strong defensive line occupied by General Lee behind Mine Run, and find a way to draw him out to open battle.
I owe 90 per cent of my life to people because I am a public figure, but 10 per cent is private to me. And I am not saying it in a defensive way. I feel my life has been made into a TV serial.
In the Freudian age, parents say to their children, ‘Don’t be defensive,’ meaning, ‘You have no argument,’ but I was born in the age of Rommel, when defense was considered an honorable thing.
I think when you’re a very good defensive team you give yourself a chance every night, on the road, at home, it’s a big factor and something to build on.
You have to be physical. If you are not, defensive backs will try to pick on you.
