Quotes About Defense

My role is to be a defensive player, and that's what I try to do. Whatever offense comes to me is a plus.

My mentality when guarding a point guard was always to try and disrupt him and take them out of the offense.

I want to make sure the other point guard can't start his offense until 12 or 13 seconds. Then I've put my team in position to defend just one pick-and-roll and one pass.

The important thing to understand, from my point of view, is if the opponents break our lines and they are attacking our box, something has gone wrong, and it is me who has to fix it. But fouls in football are normal. You have to do it sometimes.

Somebody said something really smart: It's like you end up being the defense attorney for your role. Your job is to defend their point of view. You're fighting for what they want. You learn that in acting school - it's Acting 1A: 'What do you want? What's in the way?'

Perhaps I'm temperamentally driven to see things from the point of view of the attacked rather than the attacker.

For years, European leaders have pointed out that Europe is an economic giant, but a military pygmy.

If you give him a 3-point shot, you might as well count it. I'd rather have Steph Curry beat me 14 points and 14 assists than let him get 40. Because his 40 is just so loud. And it's because of those 3s.

A person who can go out and get 40 is going to get a lot more respect than somebody who goes out and holds somebody to two points. It's just the nature of the game. It doesn't bother me.

It's always great when a defense is able to create turnovers and score. That's something we missed last year. We'd get some turnovers, but we never scored points.

You have to win games by scoring points, of course, so that's important. But when you're having nights against a good defensive team, you have to win in a different manner. You have to win a defensive-type game.

You don't get points for leaving the chin open.

When it does not click offensively, it is very easy to get down defensively.

Play in Ligue 1 is very closed, very aggressive.

Lots of coaches like to draw up a play in a timeout and most, if not all of them, are drawn up against man-to-man type coverages and defenses.

I was a bodyguard for somebody I love. That's not a good combination. I was always ready to beat somebody up.

It is never good to concede a goal; it is part of our job not to concede, just as it is part of our job to score.

Some days, you don't score, but then you have to make sure you don't concede.

If we concede three, and I am marvellous on the ball, it is no good.

Of course you don't want to concede a goal in any game.

To score three goals and not concede any is always interesting for a coach.

Our main concern will always be security.

For me, it was very good to work with Cavani because he is a great attacker. In confrontations, you had to be very careful with him and try to cancel him in the best way.

When a nation is surrounded by weaponized nations, she has to equip herself.