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I remember when I went to try out for the Olympic team in 1972, Coach Iba told me he didn't care how many points I could score because if I couldn't guard anybody, I wasn't going to make the team. I knew to make the team I had to become a better defender. If you can play offense, you can defend. It just comes down to competitive will.
If you only take offense when the president of your party is compared to Hitler, then you're part of the problem.
Our offense is like the pythagorean theorem: There is no answer!
If I was going to play offense, I'd love to play running back. In high school I played quarterback and wide receiver, but I wouldn't mind running over some folks.
I feel like with me being a big part of any offense, then the numbers are going to come.
I've never liked the press part of it (no offense), but it comes with the job.
It may not be proper for me, perhaps, to let my feelings carry me further am therefore resigned to stop here, if sir, you think my particular reasons following too free, or will give offense to the House, which I would be sorry to be thought capable of intending.
The only defense is offense, which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly than the enemy if you wish to save yourselves.
Balls and strikes are the basic tenet to everything in baseball. From the perspective of hitting, pitching, offense and defense, it's all about the strike zone and how the battle is waged there between the pitcher and hitter.
Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
Nudity isn't something people should take offense to.
I've analyzed the best I can... and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course.
As we've seen, deploying large armies abroad won't always be our best offense. Countries typically don't want foreign soldiers in their cities and towns.
What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense.
An ardent supporter of the hometown team should go to a game prepared to take offense, no matter what happens.
Under current law, there is no additional penalty for someone who enters the United States illegally and then commits either a crime of violence or a drug trafficking offense. They simply come under the same penalty as we have in current law.
I look like an accountant. And no offense to accountants! There's some really cool accountants out there.
We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.
We've got a lot of potential on offense. But really potential doesn't mean much if you don't realize it.
If I were a high school coach, I would put my best players on offense. The best athletes on my team, I would give them the ball and score points. I wouldn't play them on defense. I would play them where they can get the ball and score points.
If it is a first offense, you ground them and have a talk. The second offense would call for counseling.
A personal offense is like a scratch on a phonograph record. I couldn't move my thoughts beyond my pain. It kept repeating, as if I were stuck within its grooves. There was only one way to play beyond it. I had to forgive them, so my heart could take its form again.
Witticisms please as long as we keep them within boundaries, but pushed to excess they cause offense.
I want each and every West Virginian to have bragging rights. I want to stop playing defense and start playing offense. So, together, let us grab the reins of history.
On September 11, 2001, we thought we were going to be attacked many, many times between then and now. We haven't been. I believe we had a president who made the right decision at the right time... to put us on offense against terrorists.
No offense to the Canadians, but I believe location is like a character, and authenticity really matters. When you're in a place like New York or D.C., you just can't beat it, and it's so hard to recreate because they are both such distinctive places. I think it's pretty easy these days to tell films that are shot in Toronto.
Giving a 10-year mandatory minimum for a second offense fist fight is not going to reduce the chance that someone will be stabbed 16 times when you are not funding any of the programs that are desperately needed to actually reduce juvenile crime.
No offense to Iceland, but Latin America is where the fugitive leaker Edward Snowden should settle.
Whatever the offense dictates to allow me doing what I or this offense needs to do to win games, I'm going to do it.
The Bears treat offense as if it's bubonic plague.
I hope we can build our offense and go out there and win games.
I believe all life has value, from conception to natural death. And I believe the intentional taking of human life, except to save lives, should be a capital offense, as it is in most states in America today.
Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; few people are modest enough not to take offense that one appreciates them.
Horror films have always been quite operatic for me. I always sort of scratch my head at people's offense to them? If you don't get them, and you don't like them, then don't watch them.
God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.
When you go into a game on offense, you make a couple moves and see what the defender is going to do. Then you pretty much can figure out what he is going to do against you - whether he carries his hands low or high, whether he is bumping or pushing, those type of things.
