Top 313 Offensive Quotes

Apparently, the image of our president is as offensive to MTV as it is to me.

Above all else, everyone at Roblox is committed to member safety. We take every precaution possible to make sure kids are protected from inappropriate and offensive individuals as well as from indecent and distasteful content.

I love it. You love being offensive on offense.

If either player abandon the game by quitting the table in anger, or in an otherwise offensive manner; or by momentarily resigning the game; or refuses to abide by the decision of the Umpire, the game must be scored against him.

Gentleness corrects whatever is offensive in our manner.

Football is about having the best offensive play possible. I always like to play offensive football, and nobody will convince me otherwise.

Every week we work really hard on that, in our defensive and offensive set pieces, and in our routines as well.

An offensive war, I believe to be wrong and would therefore have nothing to do with it, having no right to meddle with another man’s property, his ox or his ass, his man servant or his maid servant or anything this is his.

The notion of American exceptionalism is effective in part because there is little on the face of it that is offensive.

I do think the audiences have a right to judge what they feel is offensive and not.

When I set picks and rolled to the basket early in my career, either I’d dunk or it’d be an offensive foul where I run the guy over.

When I played, the offensive line was at the stadium 4 hours before kickoff. Most of the other guys got there about 3 hours before.

I can bring a lot. I play both sides of the ball. I defend. I have an offensive game. I rebound the ball. I get steals a lot.

I don’t see on television the kind of blood and guts and body parts blown apart that maybe you’re referring to, but it certainly is in that BATMAN feature and I found it very offensive.

There is no way I can go back and uncreate 8chan. If I could, I would, but there is no way to do that. So the main way I have dealt with the guilt is to go on the offensive.

You have to give this much to the Luftwaffe: when it knocked down our buildings it did not replace them with anything more offensive than rubble. We did that.

I feel like I have been a quick study in terms of picking up the different offensive schemes I have been exposed to. I think I offer a dependability and dedication that is very important to being successful.

We’ve got to know the Word of God. That is our absolute stability. That is our offensive weapon against the kingdom of darkness.

I generally feel that the solution to speech that people find offensive is more speech. You should talk about it, discuss it.

I think each guy, whether you’re an offensive lineman, receiver, running back, you’re focused on your job.

No guy on the basketball court is a threat to score with LeBron James out there. Not only will LeBron dominate from the offensive end as well, but he’s also doing it on the defensive end, which really makes him the complete package.

I love offensive physicality.

A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.

Everything is offensive, so I’m enjoying the fact that I’m anti-kind. You’ve got to go out and just speak your mind. It needs to be heard.

Evan Bourne is just like me. Hopefully, he can pick out his offensive moves, because he’s got so many, and he’s so incredible to watch. I just hope he takes the advice of all of us who have been around a little bit longer and he can tone it down. That way, he can last a lot longer.

The state has an offensive and defensive role to play as promoter of industrial policies, as regulator and as shareholder.

Our – our friends can’t trust us anymore. You know, Ukraine was a nuclear-armed state. They gave away their nuclear arms with the understanding that we would protect them. We won’t even give them offensive weapons.

I have a daughter, I have a wife, and I would never sing something offensive to others – or, specifically, to offend any women.

Mike D’Antoni is one of the best offensive coaches in the whole game of basketball, by far.

Part of having a great offensive staff is every week we look at different plays around the league and the collegiate ranks, and things that over the years that might fit what we do.

That’s what we really mean by being feared on the football field. And not actually the player that fears him, it’s the offensive coordinator that fears him or the running backs coach.

I was an offensive defenseman. I was up the ice as much as I was back.

I take a tremendous amount of punishment and abuse every weekend because every team serves at me. So I have to carry the offensive load. I’m hitting the ball all the time.

I feel like I’m a complete player, on the offensive end for sure.

I think that’s the genius part of what the Patriots do: They go above and beyond in identifying the issue and doing whatever they can to make sure it doesn’t wreck the offensive plan.

Is that what we think of women when they have a baby? That they’re nurturing and warm, but if they haven’t got children they aren’t? I find that really offensive.

I don’t find offensive that I’m being labelled a babe by blokes. I’m absolutely flattered.

Some men’s magazines are just downright offensive.

I am a singer. You love me or hate me based on my music. If you are judging me based on my nationality and religion, you are a racist. This is very offensive. I cannot encourage that.

One of the things I’d bring to Villa if I was in charge is the idea that winning is important in football, but winning while playing offensive football is the best of all.

I don’t know if I ever said I’m going to get a lot of offensive rebounds. As far as I can remember that’s been something I’ve done. I’m not sure how that happened. That’s a way to help my teammates, so I’m happy doing it.

Speech is protected in the U.S., and at the risk of repeating a hackneyed aphorism, free speech is worthless unless it applies to offensive speech. It is an American value, and one well worth protecting.

I mean, when you’re a pioneer and you are at the forefront of an offensive, you’re going to be the most optimistic person.

Defending for a team as offensive as Real Madrid isn’t that easy.

People could write stuff that’s really offensive, but if it’s written within a believable world that has a tone to it, then it can be funny. But if it’s just shock-value stuff, then it’s not going to work, because it’s not coming from a true place.

Of course, I believe that Mike Piazza is probably the greatest offensive catcher in the history of baseball, only got over 50%. Johnny Bench is the best catcher in the history of baseball, but Piazza has all the record for catchers as far as offensively.

I don’t think every offensive comment is racism. But when I see real prejudice I have to call it out.

In ‘Gran Torino,’ I play a guy who’s racially offensive. But he learned. It shows that you’re never too old to learn and embrace people that you don’t understand to begin with. It seems like nobody else got that message, I guess.

Many company policies restrict use of E-mail, limit access to offensive Web sites and prohibit disclosure of confidential information. Few policies, if any, directly address personal Web pages.

A lot of people said I tried to speak white on the phone. That is farthest thing from the truth and offensive.

There is something about seeing real people on a stage that makes a bad play more intimately, more personally offensive than any other art form.

I always find it offensive when people say God showers riches on you if you’re good.

Although offensive play is important, it’s defending that gets you titles.

Towards four o’clock, the rebels felt strong enough to take the offensive. A brigade with a battery under Earle managed to strike the Federal right on the flank and rear and throw it into utter confusion, which spread rapidly along the whole front. Now came the disastrous end.

I’m not the same person as the character I do in my songs. She’s crazy! The ‘Daddy Song’ was the first sketch I ever wrote, especially on the guitar and everything – and definitely the most offensive. And absurd.

People are prospering from being unapologetically offensive, trite, and stupid. And we are tweeting ourselves into high blood pressure and ulcers trying to tell them to do better… Being a pompous nut biscuit is now a publicity strategy, and I don’t know what we can do to end the madness.

Every team did it. They’ll say, ‘You white boy, you ain’t gonna run on us today. This is ridiculous. Why are you giving offensive linemen the ball?’ All kinds of stuff like that you hear on the field, but I use that to my advantage. I kind of soaked it in, ate it up a little bit, because I enjoyed it.

There is nothing offensive about the word ‘obese.’ It is a descriptor of a person’s weight.

We have to build that African-American offensive coordinator/quarterback coach that is going to be a head coach. I think that’s our job as head coaches – to find those guys.

For 35 years, I was a writer. I wrote a lot of jokes. Some of them weren’t funny. Some of them weren’t appropriate. Some of them were downright offensive. I understand that.

How can I ever dog Derek Jeter? It’s impossible. There is nothing to knock. He’s a great defensive player. He’s a great offensive player.

I can have an off-night on the offensive end, but I should never have an off-night on defense.

I’m not just offensive, I’m very smart about the way that I do it, and that takes a lot of time. People say that young comics shouldn’t be trying these things. That’s ridiculous. You should try everything and see what sticks.

It was a horrible, terrible, atrocious, offensive football game.

I hate white people writing for black people; it’s so offensive. So we go out and look specifically for African-American voices.

I have nothing wrong with comics and writers poking fun at the President, as long as it’s funny. When it’s the same retread jokes with predictable punchlines, that’s when it’s offensive.

But when it comes to things of the mind, things like coaching, game-planning, coming up with offensive and defensive schemes, there’s no reason why a woman couldn’t be in the mix and shouldn’t be in the mix.

LeBron is more of a facilitator. Kawhi is probably more an attacking offensive dissecting the defense type of player… They’re both very good defenders when they turn it on. They can impact the game on both ends of the floor.

The one effective method of defending one’s own territory from an offensive by air is to destroy the enemy’s air power with the greatest possible speed.

Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.

We are so appreciative of the men and women in uniform who are protecting us, whether in Afghanistan or Iraq or on ships around the world. For our security, they are taking the offensive to the terrorists overseas.

Gold Gloves are nice to have people mention. They’re basically saying you’re a pretty good defensive player along with everything else. But I was about the offensive side.

It’s an offensive league.

Basketball is a simple game. Your goal is penetration, get the ball close to the basket, and there are three ways to do that. Pass, dribble and offensive rebound.

I do find it slightly offensive that everyone thinks that every New Zealander starred in either ‘Lord of the Rings’ or ‘The Hobbit.’

If you don’t have a defense this league don’t exist. So I feel like defensive players do need to kind of stand their ground to kind of show that we are just as important. You see all the offensive guys getting paid and we are just as important.

If the offensive player starts losing confidence, that gets the defender’s confidence up – and I think the team can feel it.

There has not yet been a major ground offensive battle… There are, we know, negotiations going on between the opposition forces and the Taliban leadership for surrender.

Until that moment comes when the ball comes to me every time, I have to find a way to be effective with offensive rebounds, play hard defense, blocking shots.

The fundamentals, what I want, which is to take the ball, try to play as offensive as possible and dominate the game through the ball, is the same. I grew up with that; I was a player with that idea, and I am a coach with that idea.

My telephone manners were, well, offensive to some. As I lugged my cell around, yammering away, I noticed cold stares from passersby who viewed me as a kind of techno-terrorist, or at least incredibly rude.

Anthemic rock music is inherently fascist – anything intended to move huge masses of people is politically offensive to me.

What I really lick my chops for is when you get the offensive rebounds at the end of the third quarter, fourth quarter. That really just sucks the life out of the opponent. You can see it in their face, especially when you’re on the road, it just takes the whole energy out of the arena. That’s what I live for.

I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.

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 great fun to have the license to say damn near anything you want, short of being offensive.

There’s a difference between an actual insult and a friendly jab. So I don’t think I’m offensive onstage.

Political correctness is one of the engines of nannyism. Allowing and even encouraging ‘offensive’ ideas is vital for the intellectually health of a free society.

It’s a scary thing when a team don’t know who to match up to, whose night it’s going to be on the offensive end.

Third down and long is the toughest situation for any offensive coordinator in the NFL.

Not to be offensive, not to be capricious, not to be arbitrary, not to be neurotic, not to be an actor outer, you’re just trying to get in and you’re given so little time to get in gently, but it’s always hard.

Life itself is offensive and certainly does not apologize – in fact, it hurts considerably and, as we all know, is often very rude and troublesome, just as nature or art can be.

I would never ever want to be an actor playing anyone other than myself. I can’t do voices or anything. No, it’s not for me. There are lots of people who are trained actors and I feel it’s offensive for me to do it.

Our music has always been instant reactive and I guess taking our time to absorb things and say what you really want to say could be much more offensive than anything we’ve ever done.

The line between humor and bad taste is your audience, in which some people will find everything offensive, and some people will find nothing offensive, but the truth is that most humor originates in what would be called bad taste.

To be able to go through what I’ve gone through and still be fortunate before the age of 40 to still be here to be offensive coordinator with Coach Saban at Alabama, you take some time to reflect on that.

I have a rule – ‘funny is funny!’ When I write comedy, it’s not my aim to upset people. I will be offensive, edgy and immature, but I will also be very intelligent and relevant. At my shows, there are no holy cows.

You’re put into a box where you’re either an offensive, defensive coach or a player development guy. Fair or unfair. You have to be whatever your team needs you to be.

As a viewer of television if there’s something I don’t like or find offensive, I just don’t watch it.

I remember Arsene Wenger very well from our time in Japan. I like the way his teams play, with an offensive mentality – it is a philosophy I share. I think he gets the best out of the players he has, and this is the key to his success.

The idea that somehow or other you can deal with all the problems in the world by banning a particular religious group from entering the U.S.A. is offensive and absurd.

When I was younger, I initially hated football because they put me on the offensive line because I was the biggest kid.

I would love to be a creative offensive consultant where I could help design and help create plays and ways to attack other teams without having the coaching schedule.

What is there so offensive to which habit has not the power to reconcile us?

In general, even when I’m not doing political comedy, I want to be clever and find the least confrontational way to say the most offensive things.

Evil borders upon good, and vices are confounded with virtues; as the report of good qualities is delightful to a well-disposed mind, so the relation of the contrary should not be offensive.

Your leader on the offensive line is your center, because the communication really takes place between him and quarterback.

I like to draw from experiences in my past, but that alone is quite hard and complicated, because I don’t want to say anything incriminating or too offensive, but I want to give people an insight into my life and how it was.

We had to play both ways on the field, so I was offensive center and defensive end.

That’s what most players know about me, that I can change the game without scoring or even having a good offensive night.

In addition to a timeline, I have proposed that U.S. troops be removed from front line combat positions in Iraqi cities and towns, turning over daily security patrols, interactions with citizens, and any offensive security actions to the Iraqis themselves.

Offensive linemen don’t get looked at. Nobody is paying attention to the offensive line. But me? I’m getting watched for everything. I know what type of player I am. Everybody else that I know knows what type of player I am.

We have all said things that are offensive when taken out of context. You don’t need to tell the public to be repelled. They will tell you they are repelled.

My mental approach is totally different. My coach predicated everything on defense. He always talked about defense, defense, defense. I took it to heart that if you play defense, you can take the heart from an offensive player.

Safeco Field is a lot like a National League park. Because of that, we’re more of a pitching-defensive type club. Anaheim and Oakland – and even Texas – are more offensive oriented. We’re a club that doesn’t blow anybody out, but at the same time we don’t get blown out much. We’re in most of the games.

I learned from different guys I played with, too. The key was probably three people: The good Lord, the offensive linemen I played with and great fullbacks that could block very well.

When I took ownership on the defensive end, I made a commitment to myself to basically cancel out what was happening on the offensive end.

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 want to hurt anybody or be offensive. But I don’t want to not be me.

Some people can do things and get away with it. Comics are famously like that. Why is it that some guys can say the most horrible things and it’s not offensive, it’s funny?

So we’re considering doing a new Christmas album, because there’s been Christmas episodes since then, and maybe finally do the version of ‘The Most Offensive Song Ever’ with lyrics intact.

Obviously the gospel was offensive to a lot of people and it was offensive to me at one point but that caused me to have a change of heart, to come to repentance and realise I was a sinner and needed a saviour.

I like an interesting movie even if it’s controversial or offensive, depending on your taste.

America is experiencing an Islamist cultural-political offensive designed to undermine and destroy our civilization.

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.

Every time I write something, I think, this is the most offensive thing I will ever write. But no. I always surprise myself.

But when an offensive sputters and looks out of synch, you can bet one of the defensive linemen is responsible.

I don’t think previously strong relationships can remain strong after dispute by just sweeping the offensive stuff under the carpet, or by saying a puny sorry, or ‘oh, that’s all over now.’ It doesn’t work like that for me.

Conor McGregor – this guy is so offensive minded and never on the defense that whenever you put him on the defense, he gets so flustered and so upset.

I believe in my heart that the name of the game in baseball – from an offensive perspective – is getting on base and not making outs.

LeBron is LeBron. They’re not going to call offensive fouls on him. He gets to do what he wants.

I don’t want to hide. I don’t want to be focused just on defending, because I also have to be offensive and create opportunities for us.

James Harden is one of the best offensive players in the game.

I’m trying to focus on every play and not to worry about the offensive end.

You continue to build and work on new things, and continue to beat offensive linemen, week in and week out.

The robust English view used to be that the correct response to offensive words is to ignore them, or to answer them with a rebuke. If you invoke the law at all, it should be to protect the one who gives the offence, and not the one who takes it. Now, it seems, it is all the other way round.

When I see something like Russian intelligence services interfering with our electoral process, I find that incredibly offensive.

Currently under FCC policy, indecency determinations hinge on two factors. First, material must describe or depict sexual or excretory organs or activities. Second, the material must be patently offensive as measured by contemporary community standards for the broadcast medium.

Disrespect toward Jesus, as we have seen all too often in our society, is very offensive to Muslims.

People have gone down this spiral of cancel culture and the idea that everything is offensive.

It’s so nice to be able to get up on stage and just say the most disgusting, ridiculous, outrageous, offensive thing, knowing it’s just between you and the audience.

I was making $38,500 and Oklahoma offered me $125,000 to be the offensive coordinator and I thought, ‘Hmm, I probably should look at this.’

Tanks being deployed far forward is an indication of offensive action; tanks in depth is an indication of defensive action.

You just have to always go out and continue to work hard, watch the film, see what you did wrong from an offensive unit and individually. Then, you just have to go out and do better the next time out. That is what sports is all about.

Of course, when people work together, there can be tension and disagreement. But policing informal behavior makes it hard for people to speak freely for fear they will say the wrong thing. Even self-aware individuals can doubt their judgement and start to rely on the diversity trainer to judge if something is offensive.

The NFL offensive blocking is played differently; they use their hands instead of their head and shoulders.

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.

I don’t know where all this stuff comes from. This guy is an offensive guru. This guy is a defensive guru.’ I don’t even understand that. To me, you’re a basketball coach.

It’s just using my size. On the defensive end, it’s using my length to disturb the smaller guys. On the offensive end, if there’s a post-up advantage, I can take it.

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

I would never do a commercial if I thought it was offensive to anyone.

Everybody always asked why I wanted to be an offensive lineman. I told them that I had 11 different people I can hit on every single play, while everyone else is chasing one person. I prided myself on being an extremely physical and dominant player.

The most offensive thing is when people say, ‘Everything you do is for the money.’

My wife will act as the offensive coordinator at times during the evening. I’ll have her read the full play to me. I’ll sit there and try to picture it, spit it back out to her, make sure I’m verbalizing it the right way so that when I step into the huddle the next day in practice, things are coming out clear.

I think very long and hard about every possibly offensive joke I want to make. I really hate mean humor and would hate to make anyone reading my jokes feel truly bad.

Each day, each one of us chooses not to do many things that would be legal but offensive to those around us.

Those who manage to keep the offensive and defensive balance are more successful. We search for balance in order to keep a stable level, which is the most difficult thing to do.

I never find sincerity offensive… so, be sincere.

The head coach is the director, the quarterback is the lead actor and the offensive linemen are the grips.

When members of this House use inflammatory language, use offensive language, it does not help the process. It is beneath the dignity of this body and this country.

There was a hateful video that was disseminated on the internet. It had nothing to do with the United States government and it’s one that we find disgusting and reprehensible. It’s been offensive to many, many people around the world.

My lyrics aren’t offensive. Some people find everything offensive.

In conformity with these designs on the city of Washington, and notwithstanding the disastrous results of the invasion of 1862, it was determined by the Rebel government last summer to resume the offensive in that direction.

An important part of the Internet is that it provides a space for people whose identities are socially unacceptable. If it enables someone who feels minoritised to be who they want to be, it’s actually worth having other people be offensive. I’d much rather have both than have neither.

Comments that suggest that Muslims should be banned from the United States are offensive and unconstitutional.

I don’t lead a particularly Bohemian existence. The main criterion for me is not to be judgemental of other people so long as what they do is not harmful or offensive to others.

Joe Kleine is not a legitimate center in the sense that he is not a shot blocker and not an intimidator. He’s not a force on the offensive end.

Difficulty empathising translates into a whole set of hurdles. You might be last person to get the point of a joke, which can leave you feeling like an outsider. You might end up saying something that another person finds hurtful or offensive, when that was the last thing you intended.

I just think you need to believe in yourself – be offensive, but still have some nervousness in your body before any important game.

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.

Even as a coach, sometimes you forget the little intricacies of the offense, the details of the routes, the timing of the footwork, and the timing of the offensive tackles with the different sets that they have.

I wouldn’t defend comedy that I find offensive, but there is a lot of comedy that some people find offensive which I would defend. You can’t talk usefully in generalisations.

They say baseball’s a game of failure. Well, that’s only true on the offensive side.

Everybody wants to go out and play hard for a guy where they know if they give their all on the defensive end, they’re going to get rewarded on the offensive end.

Personally, I think ‘Dead Americans’ is the best title I have, but you can’t win with everyone. Titles have to be short, catchy, not too obscure, not offensive, and still capture the genre, and so on and so forth. Takeshi Kitano has it about right when he says he’d just like to title his films by number.

It’s an offensive league. All the rules cater to the offense.

When you’re a position coach, your next goal is to be a coordinator. While trying to be the best tight ends coach you can be, I always wanted to be an offensive coordinator at some point. When the opportunity presents itself, you want to make sure you capitalize on that.

I just have to put even more focus and concentration in for 90 minutes and try to be mistake-free, while also expressing myself in the offensive parts of the field.

It’s an offensive foul if you go into the defender’s body, but if I fade and a guy runs into my leg, it’s a foul.

The intelligent defense of free speech should not rest on the notion that we must tolerate every form of speech, no matter how offensive. It’s that we should lean toward greater tolerance for speech we dislike, and reserve our harshest penalties only for the worst offenders.

When I was in college, my school newspaper accepted an ad from a Holocaust revisionist organization. This would have been offensive on most college campuses across the country, but I went to a school with a very large Jewish population, so the ad, as you might expect, stirred absolute outrage.

God doesn’t love me any more or less because I had some work done on my face. You know, I prayed about it a long, long, long, long, long time, because there again, I wouldn’t want to do anything that I felt was going to be offensive to God.

I’m going to prove to the fans, going to prove to my teammates, that I can be a better defensive player, offensive player, to win games.

You can’t play like that in any conference, where bigs just continually get offensive rebounds and get fouled and get to the free throw line.

Some of the greatest national security threats we face cannot be defeated or defended by traditional military hardware, but only by greatly enhanced cyberspace warfare, including both offensive cyber-warfare and cyber-security.

The Big Ten has great offensive lines and great offensive-line coaching. It prepared me pretty well for the NFL.

We ought to recognize that we have an offensive responsibility to take the war to the terrorists where they are. That responsibility has waned in the last year as military and intelligence resources were withdrawn from Afghanistan and Pakistan to be used in Iraq.

If people’s opinion, whether they liked you or not, made you a better player then we’d all be out there on the charm offensive.

I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive.

Bringing in a guy like Jordan Howard is going to help us immensely: a guy that you can give the ball to behind five really good offensive linemen and say, ‘Go to work.’

If you expect me to buy something where all I can sense is carelessness, actually I think that is personally offensive.

People ask me, ‘Have you ever considered doing stand-up?’ To me it would be less offensive if someone asked me, ‘Have you ever considered dental implants?’

On the offensive end you can work yourself into a rhythm, but on the defensive end you have to be aware of everything. That’s not measured by shots made or missed, it’s measured by heart and determination to get out and play somebody. That’s how you win on defense.

I played Othello at RADA – blacked up. I didn’t know it was going to be offensive now!

I think you need to be aggressive. That’s offensive football.

What we make testifies who we are. People can sense care and can sense carelessness. This relates to respect for each other and carelessness is personally offensive.

I wrote an article for Revolver and it was very offensive.

Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Ours is one of the last independent companies that offer a place you may write down your thoughts free from having to worry about whether they are offensive to one group or another.

In the end, postmodern art is obscene not because it is offensive, but because it is boring.

If seven or eight players play offensively, then it’s clear that the offensive force is greater than the defensive stability. That’s what I often say internally.

The reality is that it’s just the nature of the game. It’s the nature of playing offensive line, defensive line, and linebackers, where your responsibilities as a player involve those little hits that are going to accumulate. You can’t take that out of the game.

We played a gig and we had a song that was offensive to people of the Jewish persuasion, and we led off with it, and they were offended by it, and that was that.

Obama’s drone program, in fact, amounts to the largest unmanned aerial offensive ever conducted in military history: never have so few killed so many by remote control.

It’s one of those things: we’ve got guys that are very offensive and can take down anyone, and we’ve got guys that don’t shoot at all but are very hard to take down. It’s one of those things. You’ve got to decide what you’re good at.

I find pop art really offensive because it’s taking a piece of popular culture and putting it somewhere where people can’t see it.

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.

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.

One of my roles is rebounding the ball and not giving up offensive boards, and I feel like I can be one of the best in the league at that.

I will concede to you one thing – ‘Hustler’ is offensive, even to the point of being iconoclastic. That’s our purpose – to be offensive.

All sectors and all units of the national economy should launch a vigorous general offensive to boost production in hearty response to the Party’s militant slogan.

Mike D’Antoni is a great offensive mind. He’s a great coach.

People in Britain see Richard Quest as a kind of an offensive cartoon character.

I have always regretted the dumb and offensive comments I made in my 20s on atheism and homosexuality.

I think offensive linemen generally took the weight room and the workouts much more seriously, because we saw that it was a vital part of our training. We needed to be big and strong, and our muscles needed to be in good shape to handle the beatings.

I know that Spurs are a team who like to play offensive football.

We are in a diversity age. I talk about the lack of diversity for black Americans, but what about the Asian Americans? You don’t see them very often. They have a show called ‘Fresh off the Boat.’ No one is talking about that show. I saw it, and I found that show completely offensive, but I’m not Asian American.

One of the greatest indicators of our own spiritual maturity is revealed in how we respond to the weaknesses, the inexperience, and the potentially offensive actions of others.

I try not to apologize, especially publicly. That’s a slippery slope, because I’m a comedian. If you take anything I’m saying too seriously, then you shouldn’t be paying attention in the first place. If you find me offensive, don’t follow me.

I used to send Tony Romo texts throughout the season just to encourage him, just to wish him luck and just to tell him to get on his offensive line. I hated watching this young man get sacked as much as he did, especially when it came down to big games.

As an offensive player, you always want to produce and score goals, especially when that’s your job on the team.

I find it very offensive when the government tells me what I can and cannot watch. Censor yourself.

If you have a defensive concept, you’re going to play defense. If you don’t have a defensive concept, and you have an offensive concept, then you’re going to play offense.

I am not now, nor will I ever be, a candidate for offensive coordinator of Iowa.

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.

In the early hours of 16 December 1944, the Germans launched their last great offensive of the Second World War against weakly held U.S. positions in the Ardennes Forest, the site of their original Blitzkrieg success against the French in 1940.

I love offensive coaches.

When you talk about forming an offensive identity, it’s about, first, let’s figure out what our players do best.

I like music that’s more offensive. I like it to sound like nails on a blackboard, get me wild.

I’ve said this time and time again: Dante Scarnecchia is the best offensive line coach in the NFL.

It’s a pleasure to be doing a show for Comedy Central. Traditional networks would cast me as the head of a household with 16 children, which I find extremely offensive because there are 18 kids in my family.

My role is to be ready. I never know what night my name and number is going to be called, but my job is to go out there, be physical, play solid defense, and contribute on the offensive end whenever possible.

I’m an offensive juggernaut. Defense is something I do in my spare time.

If you say, ‘I don’t want to offend anyone,’ then don’t get on stage. Just ask yourself, ‘Do I think it is right? Do I think it is offensive? And do I think that everyone is okay to hear this? If I truly believe this, then I should go and do this.’

A person is a product of his own thoughts. Believe big. Adjust your thermostat forward. Launch your success offensive with honest, sincere belief that you can succeed.

Japan has always regarded the aircraft carrier as one of the most offensive of armaments.

We don’t realize how much the NFL is quietly drifting towards flag football. During the ’80s, part of the defense’s goal was to put the fear of God into offensive players… that’s fading away.

Certain things were deemed to be offensive. It was usually bad language.

I make it a point to listen to a song before being a part of it to ensure that there is nothing offensive or downgrading.

I have to admit that when I watch a movie in which there is no moral context for the violence – I find that offensive. I think that’s potentially damaging to society.

There’s no more skilled position in football than the offensive line.

I like offensive, technical, and quick football – exactly in the style of Arsenal.

Satire is, by definition, offensive. It is meant to make us feel uncomfortable. It is meant to make us scratch our heads, think, do a double-take, and then think again.

Like any offensive lineman worth his shoulder pads, I’m a mudder. Football’s just not football without a healthy dose of slipping, sliding, snow, or rain.

If I’m not scoring, I better do something on the offensive end.

It’s different to have your head coach be in the offensive meeting room going through every play, every detail to every guy, telling them why they need to run this way or what this concept is.

Ninety-eight percent of the things that come out of my mouth are intended to be harmless or even charming. They’re not ever intended to be offensive or controversial.

My imam at the Central Mosque said there was no problem with making music. In fact, he encouraged me – he said if the songs are moral, not offensive, then go ahead.

I want to go play behind that great offensive line they have down in Dallas.

You have to have a great offensive line, great quarterback and guys around you that believe in you and help you.

A lot of times I go to a comedy show, I sit there and wait for the comedian to run out of ideas and look at me and make an Asian joke. Which is very different for blacks and Latinos. You can’t say certain things because everyone is cognizant of when things are and should be offensive. Asians don’t have that luxury.

Non-disabled actors should not still be playing disabled characters in 2020. We’re better than that. It’s frankly offensive and archaic and it makes me so angry I want to punch a wall.

Poking fun at other people’s beliefs, while it may seem frivolous and offensive, is a non-negotiable right. It is a principle that underpins free speech, the basis for progress.

I’m not the voice of reason; I’m more the guy using these offensive topics as fodder to raise tension in a joke.

The French repulsed wave after wave of frontal attacks at Dien Bien Phu. The 1968 Tet offensive against the U.S. was a military disaster that effectively destroyed the Viet Cong. But Giap persisted and prevailed.

We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.

I am edgy, raw, offensive, vulgar, untruthful, but intelligent. My jokes are always realistic. I do not make fun of children or people who cannot fight back. That is my limitation.

Everyone says comedy is really hard, but with ‘The Office’ the naturalism was everything so it didn’t feel like doing comedy; it just felt like doing a really offensive character who thought he was funny.

Our essential differences from the norm are both huge and deeply offensive to those among us who wish to be quietly integrated into society without particular reference to our nature.

One of the most offensive actions by the IRS is its continued unlawful seizures of money and assets of innocent Americans, called civil asset forfeiture.

You know, I just feel physically that I can get a lot of offensive rebounds.

As a running back, it takes five offensive linemen, a tight end, a fullback and possibly two wide receivers, in order to make my job successful.

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.

Hillary talks the talk, but in my view, she is as big a corporatist, as big a war monger, as big an imperialist as any of the Republican presidential candidates. Her rhetoric is less offensive.

I want to be an offensive player, too. Play low post, midrange, take jump shots, and just be the best I can be.

What does this Heidi Parker look like pregnant? What does she look like first thing in the morning? Or bending over? What do any of these bloody ‘journalists’ look like that makes them find the normal appearance of celebrities so offensive?

I’ve made this statement many times: If I would have to do it over again, I would have made known the forthcoming Tet Offensive.

In such a therapeutic, pragmatic, pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps society as ours, the message of God having to do all the work in saving us comes as an offensive shot at our egos.

I’ve always believed that. I’m not a guy who comes in with an offensive system, and we try to fit guys to it. I think it goes the other way. ‘Here’s who we’ve got. Let’s put them in the right spots where they can be productive.’

Say what you will about President Trump’s tone, tactics or tweeting, but even his most strident critics admit he’s at his best when on the offensive.

We need to begin an all-out diplomatic offensive on Darfur in order to prepare the way for a peacekeeping force that can ensure protection for the people of Darfur.

My style is to stay on the offensive: to take risks, to recover very fast when you make a mistake, but to keep moving forward.

My experience started in the gay nightlife/drag life. I was just as consumed in ignorance about what is offensive to transpeople because at that time I hadn’t found myself. I was living as a drag performer only.

Obviously Madonna reinforces everything absurd and offensive.

Isn’t it obvious that the peddling of such racial stereotypes is deeply offensive?

I’ve been told by the BBC that if I make one more offensive remark, anywhere, at any time, I will be sacked. And even the angel Gabriel would struggle to survive with that hanging over his head. It’s inevitable that one day, someone, somewhere will say that I’ve offended them, and that will be that.

A lot of times, politicians will go to where their strongest force is and do things for them, and that’s the type of thing they do that I find offensive.

I have unbelievable trust in my offensive line that they will get the job done. Not only them, but the running backs and as a quarterback, I have to do my job in getting the ball in the right people’s hands and doing what I do best.

I don’t talk much to offensive linemen in general.

Every once in a while, friends leave sarcastic comments on photos. I know they’re joking, but the sarcastic humor doesn’t always translate well when I am sitting behind my screen reading it. In person, it’s easier to play it off as a joke, but online, it can come across as offensive.

Under the Trump administration, the traditional structure of White House oversight of American offensive and defensive cyberactivities is being dismantled.

When I defend, it keeps me patient and lets my game come to me on the offensive end.

It feels dangerous when people say, ‘Oh, Sean Baker focuses on marginalised people.’ And offensive. As if I’m standing there with my planner thinking, ‘OK, where’s the next marginalised group I can make a movie about?’

Writing songs is a profession; so it’s not an attempt to take things from my interactions with other people and for some reason give them to a total stranger to listen to. I find it offensive to hear other people do that.

There’s absolutely nothing anyone can say about my mother or myself or my step-father that we haven’t heard before. You’d have to be a Dickens or a Nabakov to come up with something really offensive.

Being an offensive lineman, you always have the mindset of being an unsung hero – a lot of the people who look at the game follow the ball.

I can shoot the 3. I can play off the catch. I get offensive rebounds. And I still have a lot of energy left to defend.

What is offensive is different for everyone.

When you defend and rebound and you trust the pass on the offensive end, you’re going to have the ability to win a lot of games.

Frosh-week songs are meant to be offensive because offensive is rebellious.

Murder is an offensive act. The term cannot be applied legitimately to any defensive act.

I recruit defensive players first. That’s where most games are won. Then you’ve got to get the offensive linemen.

We never dealt with satire or suggestive material. Although some of our films were broad parodies or burlesques of popular dramatic themes, there was no conscious attempt at being either sarcastic or offensive.

This country was founded on a core set of family values. These values should not be discouraged and blatantly undermined by the airing of offensive material on broadcast television and radio.

I think that ‘Judaizing the Galilee’ is not an offensive term. We used to talk like that.

I don’t believe in that term ‘self-made’ – not to be offensive, but I believe everything happens for a reason, every single person you meet. Even if it’s one single person giving you advice, that person helped you get to where you’re at today.

Flame mails and offensive Internet activities are not classy. It doesn’t fit with our culture here, where we respect the gender, race, opinions, ear-lobe apparel and choice of clothing of all employees.

I’m a hugger of both men and women. As it turns out that those are taken in an offensive manner, I need to have a greater sense of awareness of what I am doing, and we will correct that, and I am taking those steps.

Kobe Bryant is a terrific offensive rebounder.

I used to sort of consider myself a feminist, an environmentalist, and I still have some of that in me, but I’ve done so many offensive comedies, I’m now worn down to a little nub of… nub of an activist.

My thing of not playing offensive tackle is the health issue. I don’t want to be that big. That could end up not being good for your health.

Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.

People talk about offensive chemistry all the time, but defensive chemistry is something you have to build, too, and there’s a lot of that work to be done with just communications and the feel of who certain guys play.

I liked playing in lanes, especially because of the offensive opportunities you have in that position.

I’ve been single forever, and, oh God, I love every minute of it. I don’t wish to sound offensive, and it always does when women say that, doesn’t it?

It is wrong for any person to ever judge someone in any situation saying, ‘Well, why didn’t you try to run? Why didn’t you scream? Why didn’t you try to do something?’ That is so wrong and, frankly, offensive to even ask that question.

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.

I remember when I first started modeling, and I would read interviews with people. Then I would see them, and they would always say something entirely different to a crowd of people than they would say privately. I always found that really offensive.

The kind of role I play is like an offensive lineman; doing a good job but not being noticed. I feel sorry for myself sometimes. But as long as the end result is there, I can dig it.

I am extremely proud of my service with the government and my efforts to help safeguard public health and protect our country against the scourge of offensive biological warfare.

It just worries me that if we start trying to erase history that we can learn from, where does that end? Do you start taking away books people find offensive? It’s just a path that seems very dangerous to me in this country.

When you’ve got guys touching the ball on the offensive end, they’re really into the defensive end.

When you have five skill positions, if all five of them are contributing to the offensive effort, then that’s balanced.