Offense Quotes

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.

Installing a new offense is harder than a new defense. It just takes time.

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.

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.

The other thing was that when I was at the University of Miami, we ran a pro-style offense and defense. I started each year by going to a pro training camp, I visited with various pro coaches, and I did this for five years.

If bad decorating was a hanging offense, there'd be bodies hanging from every tree!

There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.

Strictly speaking, every citizen above a certain level of income is guilty of some offense.

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.

We love all kinds of music: We love pop music, we love rock music, we love R & B and country, and we just pull from all our influences. So I don't really take offense as long as people are coming out to the shows and buying the records and becoming fans of the music. At the end of the day, the music is what's gonna speak to you.

Our offense is like the pythagorean theorem: There is no answer!

No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.

What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense.

Avoiding offense means that we don't accept each other as equals.

Forgiveness is not a feeling - it's a decision we make because we want to do what's right before God. It's a quality decision that won't be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense.

I've never liked the press part of it (no offense), but it comes with the job.

Poets have to be sensitive to their audience, but it does not mean that they censor themselves. I realise my audience is diverse. Some will read with empathy and curiosity while others will take offense.

Welcome to the Salvation Army. I've never been associated with an offense so nice about giving the ball away.

If you only take offense when the president of your party is compared to Hitler, then you're part of the problem.

Long hair is an unpardonable offense which should be punishable by death.

Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.

Find fault when you must find fault in private, and if possible sometime after the offense, rather than at the time.

It is a poor sermon that gives no offense; that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher.

The only thing I want to be able to do is come in and learn the offense, go out there and compete, show what I am capable of doing and try to get better as a football player.

I feel like with me being a big part of any offense, then the numbers are going to come.

The bomber will always get through. The only defense is in offense, which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly that the enemy if you want to save yourselves.

The triangle is a foundation to an offense.

To apologize is to lay the foundation for a future offense.

Witticisms please as long as we keep them within boundaries, but pushed to excess they cause offense.

Being as versatile as I am, I take offense to the notion that no serious musician would not be doing a late night talk show gig. One has to be open enough in other areas to be able to contribute to a show like this.