Offense Quotes

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.

He who pardons easily invites offense.

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

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.

Rooting for the offense is the safe way to go. You win either way.

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.

Oh, I think the biggest lesson in Wisconsin is that 60 percent of the people do not believe that recall elections were proper for policy differences, short of some criminal offense.

I don't want to look like Connecticut, no offense, I don't want to look like Oklahoma, I don't want to look like California. I want to be uniquely Texas. And that's not to diss anybody else.

I mean, no offense, but I don't really see why, like guitar players from Creed, or something like that, are on the cover of guitar magazines. Almost anybody can sit down and learn to play those songs.

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

If it is a first offense, you ground them and have a talk. The second offense would call for counseling.

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

I believe the war on terror is the vital discussion of this decade and of our generation, probably. To win the war on terror, you need a good offense and a good defense. On defense, I regret to say, basically, this administration has not come close to doing what is necessary.

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.

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.

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

Football is a chess game to me. If you move your pawn against my bishop, I'll counter that move to beat you. Football is the same way. I study so much film that I know exactly what teams are going to do. I love knowing what a offense is going to run and stuffing that play.

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.

It's fun leading this offense. I don't think we've hit our peak.

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.

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

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

Thou shalt not steal. I mean defensively. On offense, indeed thou shall steal and thou must.

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

We needed to go back on the offense and offer clear leadership on Iraq.

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.

Bobby Knight told me this: 'There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.' In other words a good offense wins.

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

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.