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.
