#defender

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. ↗

— Doug Collins

#because #become #better #care #coach

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers. ↗

— William Penn

#heat #more #often #suffers #than

The paradigm of competition is a race: by rewarding the winner, we encourage everyone to run faster. When capitalism really works this way, it does a good job; but its defenders are wrong in assuming it always works this way. ↗

— Richard Stallman

#assuming #capitalism #competition #defenders #does

Many of Bush's defenders have praised him for keeping the country safe since Sept. 11, 2001. He deserves that praise, and I'm perfectly happy to defend most of his surveillance, interrogation and counterterrorism policies against his critics. ↗

— Bill Kristol

#bush #counterterrorism #country #critics #defend

You can't ask every player to do the same thing. That's why we have amazing midfielders, defenders, forwards and keepers. You can't ask them to be of the same mold. ↗

— Tiffeny Milbrett

#ask #defenders #every #forwards #keepers

Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers. ↗

— William Penn

#defenders #does #heat #more #nothing

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. ↗

— Oscar Robertson

#carries #couple #defender #figure #game

Nowadays there is more dynamism in chess, modern players like to take the initiative. Usually they are poor defenders though. ↗

— Boris Spassky

#defenders #dynamism #initiative #like #modern

If you smash a city when you're trying to capture it, you actually end up providing the perfect terrain for the defenders while blocking the access for your own armoured vehicles. ↗

— Antony Beevor

#actually #blocking #capture #city #defenders

The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten. ↗

— Calvin Coolidge

#forgets #forgotten #itself #nation #which