Quotes About Defense

If there are cracks in your armor, your opponent is going to find them.

I'd say I'm a front foot defender; I never hesitate to go in for a challenge. You have to get one over your opponent and dominate them.

I think Marriaga is a very good opponent for me. It's very hard when you have to find the keys to his defense. If people don't understand boxing, they don't know what he's capable to do. I understand it all.

You will not create a lot of chances in every game, but if you stop the opponent getting chances, you will win more.

You don't want your opponent to score. You don't want your guy to score and once you get better at it, you get used to it, it becomes a mindset. You just try to do it every game.

You will rarely see a defender in front of the opponent's goal.

As a fighter my goal is not to get hit and frustrate my opponent. Once I get you frustrated then I got you.

If the opponent can score 10 goals, then we need to change something quickly.

If I can't defend my opponent and if he scores as much I'm scoring then he won the matchup.

I learned how to defend the ball with my body and to be faster than my opponents.

The differences between the top teams in Euro 2000 are so minimal that I think you have to be very clever in defence and stop your opponents getting opportunities.

I'm a southpaw and a counter-puncher. I tend to box on the back foot and catch my opponents when they come forward.

I have that one-punch KO power in both hands but I won't only be going for the head. Most of Floyd's opponents have done that but his defence is so good.

The last thing you want as a striker is the opposing team putting all 10 players behind the ball.

We center backs had to cover a lot of ground, and we had to be very physical with the opposing strikers.

On the right of Israel to exist and to defend itself, there is no opposition in Israel.

When the opposition sits back and defends well and together, it's difficult.

In football, you don't hold on to the ball just to hold on to the ball. When you have it you need to be dangerous, create opportunities and score goals. And when you don't, you make sure the opposition doesn't.

I wore bulletproof vests, and my bodyguards had the option of having bulletproof vests - I bought five sets.

Ask any experienced defense lawyer: the real risks are for an accused person who is innocent. A guilty defendant has many more options available.

Many comedians and comedy writers have shared the childhood experience of learning to joke to protect themselves from neighborhood bullies when challenge or physical defense were not among the sensible options.

Our capacity to retaliate must be, and is, massive in order to deter all forms of aggression.

The army is under orders to defend every place.

I like to think I would not have approved those methods in the past, but I do not fault those who made the decisions at that time, and I will absolutely defend those who carried out the interrogations within the orders they were given.