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.
