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Incentives are not strategy, they are tactics. Defensive measures. -- Carlos Ghosn
Defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory. -- Douglas MacArthur
Defensive and offensive lineman control the game and true sports fans know that. -- Dante Hall
Defensive backs are always trying to kill me, so I'm trying to get them first. -- Hines Ward
You have to use your mind n the NFL. Every player is smarter. Defensive backs bluff and disguise coverages to try to fool you. -- Chad Ochocinco
The open side Defensive End has to be one of your best football players. Size does not matter as much. We want an athletic player who can move around. -- Pete Carroll
Al Gore won the popular vote and didn't get elected president, so I'm not going to sit here and kill myself over not winning Defensive Player of the Year. -- Draymond Green
To conquer by sheer force is becoming harder and harder every day. Defensive is getting continuously the advantage of offensive, as we progress in the satanic science of destruction. -- Nikola Tesla
Defensive backs are the best players on the field. But when you get an exceptional player like a Deion Sanders or a Darrell Green - these guys are fast and they have very good technique. You have to work a little harder. -- Jerry Rice
Early fear was felt cellularly and was indeed real. Defensive postures were necessary, but defenses generalize cellularly in adulthood and do not expire. It takes conscious work to undo them. Ironically, as long as we keep using defenses, we actually maintain the original force of the fear. -- David Richo
I'm a little territorial and defensive. -- Shia LaBeouf
I'm a little territorial and defensive. I don't like having my space invaded. -- Shia LaBeouf
Everything has changed. An interview has become such a confrontational thing. It makes you very defensive. -- Francesca Annis
By fighting a limited, defensive war, America permitted the enemy to endlessly re-supply their field armies. -- Nguyen Cao Ky
Me, I walk along and feel quietly defensive, a recluse in the Land of We. That's quite the loaded word, 'we.' -- Caroline Knapp
Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don't ever apologize for anything. -- Harry S Truman
I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence. -- Robert Burns
During an economic slowdown, one needs to be cautious, but I think it's equally important to not get sucked into the vortex of defensive thinking. -- Pankaj Patel
If men can learn to be less defensive, more open to others, and more accepting of accountability, they will adapt well to the new global economy. -- John Gerzema
When you show deep empathy toward others, their defensive energy goes down, and positive energy replaces it. That's when you can get more creative in solving problems. -- Stephen Covey
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. -- Hugh Leonard
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. -- Mark McKinnon
Riding a motorcycle on today's highways, you have to ride in a very defensive manner. You have to be a good rider and you have to have both hands and both feet on the controls at all times. -- Evel Knievel
Of course there are regrets. I shall regret always that I found my own authentic voice in politics. I was too conservative, too conventional. Too safe, too often. Too defensive. Too reactive. Later, too often on the back foot. -- John Major
Much of the time, the things we feel guilty about are not our issues. Another person behaves inappropriately or in some way violates our boundaries. We challenge the behavior, and the person gets angry and defensive. Then we feel guilty. -- Melody Beattie
I wasn't sure of the exact mindset you should have when you go into a Test match. So I probably became too defensive when I played my first Test match. Short balls in one-day cricket, I have never thought of just defending. -- Virat Kohli
Over the years, I've become barraged by comments from people, such as, 'Beam me up, Scotty!' and I became defensive. I felt they were derisive and engendered an attitude. I am grateful for the success, but didn't want to be mocked. -- William Shatner
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. -- Priyanka Chopra
I have my meals delivered... you know what I like? Chicken and rice... But the problem with being a defensive lineman is, if we get out of hand with our eating, we balloon up to, like, 300-some pounds. So I really got to watch what I eat. -- Hugh Douglas
I used to feel defensive when people would say, 'Yes, but your books have happy endings', as if that made them worthless, or unrealistic. Some people do get happy endings, even if it's only for a while. I would rather never be published again than write a downbeat ending. -- Marian Keyes
Defensive players kind of have that two-faced kind of way of being able to be very aggressive on the football field and going out there and getting there job done. At the same time, from my own incidents and my own personality, I'm much a person that's very likable and lovable. -- Ndamukong Suh
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. -- Justin Tuck
Every new president flatters himself that he, kinder and gentler, is beginning the world anew. Yet, when Barack Obama in his inaugural address reached out to Muslims by saying, 'To the Muslim world, we seek a new way forward, based on mutual interest and mutual respect,' his formulation was needlessly defensive and apologetic. -- Charles Krauthammer
When we go out to the country and just sit there, what we're really doing is just switching off various kinds of alertness that we don't have to use. When we do that, we are stopping being defensive. We are no longer shutting ourselves off from different types of experiences, we are welcoming them in. -- Brian Eno
My focus had always been the on-side. My coach wanted me to work on the offside strokes since he was convinced of my ability and timing on the leg side. I worked hard and firmed up my defensive technique. I am happy getting runs all around the wicket now, and getting a lot of boundaries. No one calls me a 'leggie batsman' anymore. -- Virat Kohli
Contempt is a well-recognized defensive reaction. -- I. A. Richards
You can't change when you're defensive. -- George Kohlrieser
Chatty, defensive, observant. My new favorite witness. -- Rob Thomas
The purely defensive is doomed to defeat. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
The official strategy is defensive pessimism, always. -- Veronica Roth
The more defensive a society, the more conformist. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
To me death is better than the defensive. -- Alexander Suvorov
The logical end to defensive warfare is surrender. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
I don't like defensive shots-you can only get threes -- W. G. Grace
Karate is a defensive art from beginning to end. -- Gichin Funakoshi
Canzeroni is the only defensive catcher that can't catch. -- Casey Stengel
I am a very good driver - a defensive driver. -- Kelly Carlson
I need to work on defensive play and being consistent. -- Sidney Crosby
The defensive power of a pinned piece is only imaginary -- Aron Nimzowitsch
War, in some instances, especially defensive, has been authorized by Heaven. -- Ezra Stiles
My nonviolence does recognize different species of violence, defensive and offensive. -- Mahatma Gandhi
With fandom, people are sensitive, and sometimes defensive, about their experiences. -- Rainbow Rowell
The worst thing is the world is a defensive my-kid-can't-do-anything-wrong parent. -- Laura Schlessinger
Against diseases here the strongest fence is the defensive vertue, Abstinence. -- Robert Herrick
This country cannot afford the deceptive luxury of waging defensive warfare. -- James Forrestal
... to be human is to be on the defensive, somewhere, somehow. -- Corra May Harris
I've been trying to work on my positioning and defensive game. -- Thomas Vanek
Standing on the defensive indicates insufficient strength; attacking, a superabundance of strength. -- Sun Tzu
Hats divide generally into three classes: offensive hats, defensive hats, and shrapnel. -- Katharine Whitehorn
I'm affected by my environment. Los Angeles makes me defensive and wary. -- Dan Fogelberg
You never do any good being put on the defensive and staying there. -- Rush Limbaugh
An interview has become such a confrontational thing. It makes you very defensive. -- Francesca Annis
You never do any good being put on the defensive and staying there. -- Rush Limbaugh
Now that I'm retired, I want to say that all defensive linemen are sissies. -- Dan Fouts
Aggressiveness carries with it an incalculable moral edge in any combat, offensive or defensive. -- Jeff Cooper
If you are a good team, your offense is born on the defensive end. -- Don Meyer
Fort Leavenworth is in fact no fort, being without defensive works, except two block-houses. -- Francis Parkman
I feel like I've helped create a new standard of hustle for defensive linemen. -- Jevon Kearse
Cybersecurity is not only a question of developing defensive technologies but offensive technologies, as well. -- Donald Trump
Playing against a defensive opponent is just as bad as making love to a tree. -- Jorge Valdano
Murder is an offensive act. The term cannot be applied legitimately to any defensive act. -- Benjamin Tucker
I don't think you can perpetrate war crimes with defensive weapons, with air defense systems. -- Sergei Lavrov
We must take care always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, in a respectable defensive posture. -- George Washington
I learned through apprenticeship. I was an assistant to a defensive coach, and I'm still learning. -- Brendan Daly
Wit has its place in debate; in controversy it is a legitimate weapon, offensive and defensive. -- Theodore Parker
If Michaelangelo made a marble sculpture of a defensive end it would look like Mario Williams. -- Dan Dierdorf
I really like defensive players. I've never played defense so I often wonder how they think. -- Priest Holmes
I think everybody works from a defensive position, for the most part, in the film industry. -- Will Oldham
You start talking about God and a lot of people are going to become very defensive. -- Ron Perlman
All men of conscience or prudence ply to windward, to maintain their wars to be defensive. -- Roger Williams
People always talk about going on offensive runs. But you can go on defensive runs too -- Tom Thibodeau
I don't like the way I look so I don't like being photographed. I become defensive. -- Richard Griffiths
Self-discipline, although difficult, and not always easy while combating negative emotions, should be a defensive measure. -- Dalai Lama
The first reaction is, get defensive. Second reaction is, what are we going to do about it? -- Henry Blodget
Toward his critics, the artist harbors a defensive ace: knowledge that the future will erase the present. -- Louise Gluck
America under Barack Obama has become a defensive, reactive and weaker country both at home and abroad. -- Chris Christie
I loved to make a great defensive play, I'd rather do that than hit a home run. -- Bill Dickey
Celebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters - and with much the same defensive mechanisms. -- Barbara Walters
My style is like Bruce Lee, I'm like water. It's everything from defensive, to counters, to offense. -- Nonito Donaire
It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive. -- Jawaharlal Nehru
The transition from the defensive to the offensive is one of the most delicate operations in war. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Mark my words: If Shaun Rogers is healthy, he'll be the NFL defensive player of the year. -- Matt Millen
A defensive referendum is for avoiding war and to help keep the Taiwanese people free of fear. -- Chen Shui-bian
We need to learn how to give a defense for our belief in Christ without getting defensive. -- Beth Moore
Further, a defensive policy involves the loss of the initiative, with all the consequent disadvantages to the defender. -- Douglas Haig
Further, a defensive policy involves the loss of the initiative, with all the consequent disadvantages to the defender. -- Douglas Haig
Knowing the enemy enables you to take the offensive, knowing yourself enables you to stand on the defensive. -- Sun Tzu
Painting is not made to decorate apartments. It's an offensive and defensive weapon against the enemy. (about Guernica). -- Pablo Picasso
Act with the greatest determination and on the offensive. The defensive is the death of every armed rising. -- Vladimir Lenin
A defensive investor can always prosper by looking patiently and calmly through the wreckage of a bear market. -- Benjamin Graham
When actors are being defensive and defending their position, that is when you get less than good acting. -- John Boorman
The difference between a good defensive team and a bad defensive team is as little as three possessions -- Brad Stevens
Good defensive play is as much a matter of hustle, desire and pride as it is anything else. -- Tex Winter
My advice to defensive players: Take the shortest route to the ball and arrive in a bad humor. -- Bowden Wyatt
The sin that is most destructive in your life right now is the one you are most defensive about. -- Timothy Keller
He has turned defensive boxing into a poetic art. Trouble is, nobody ever knocked anybody out with a poem. -- Eddie Shaw
Acknowledging the lucky breaks are paramount to enjoying life. Not being defensive about our successes/failures. So, in short. -- Dan Mangan
[Every] hour of delay abates the fame and force of the invader, and multiplies the resources of defensive war. -- Edward Gibbon
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Science fictions are suppressed only when likely to contribute more knowledge and freedom than the defensive orthodoxies they challenge. -- Timothy Leary
Dogma is a defensive reaction against doubt in the mind of the theorist, but doubt of which he is unaware. -- Harold Lasswell
Nature in America has always been suspect, on the defensive, cannibalized by progress. In America, every specimen becomes a relic. -- Susan Sontag
When PLO sniper fire is followed by 14 hours of Israeli bombardment, that's stretching the definition of defensive action too far. -- Ronald Reagan
We must go beyond being reactive and defensive. As Europeans we must regain our self-confidence and realize our own strengths. -- Donald Tusk
With growing experience, all skillful commanders sought to profit by the power of the defensive, even when on the offensive. -- B. H. Liddell Hart
Tanks being deployed far forward is an indication of offensive action; tanks in depth is an indication of defensive action. -- Norman Schwarzkopf
It was fun, having speed and being able to jump. Especially playing football. I played wide receiver and defensive back. -- Jacoby Ellsbury
At first, I didn't know what to expect but I do say that I love our defensive coordinator, Tim Lewis. -- Michael Strahan
A master salesman is one who takes the offensive and never the defensive sale of an argument, if argument arises. -- Napoleon Hill
There's a famous saying: "If you pass the square ball in your own defensive third it must not be intercepted." -- Graham Taylor

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