#defensive

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

— Branch Rickey

#i #indeed #mean #must #offense

All men are homosexual, some turn straight. It must be very odd to be a straight man because your sexuality is hopelessly defensive. It's like an ideal of racial purity. ↗

— Derek Jarman

#defensive #homosexual #hopelessly #ideal #like

By fighting a limited, defensive war, America permitted the enemy to endlessly re-supply their field armies. ↗

— Nguyen Cao Ky

#armies #defensive #endlessly #enemy #field

I'm a little territorial and defensive. ↗

— Shia LaBeouf

#i #little #territorial

We're not hitting on all cylinders, defensively. When we're playing good, I'll let you know. ↗

— Tony Dungy

#defensively #good #hitting #i #know

Defend myself? I cannot defend the verbal repressions of a boy. A curmudgeonly, cantankerous, ill-tempered, counterfeit boy. ↗

— Coco J. Ginger

#defensiveness #jamie-weise #love #love-story #silence

It's not going to be easy; Enterprise IT has spent decades growing a defensive culture based on the premise that you only get noticed when you screw up, so that must be avoided at all costs. ↗

— Tim Bray

#based #costs #culture #decades #defensive

Incentives are not strategy, they are tactics. Defensive measures. ↗

— Carlos Ghosn

#incentives #measures #strategy #tactics

Fort Leavenworth is in fact no fort, being without defensive works, except two block-houses. ↗

— Francis Parkman

#defensive #except #fact #fort #in fact

We knew that if we had to win the World Cup, the defensive side of the game had to be better, which means bowlers will have to bowl tight and we will have to field better. ↗

— Ricky Ponting

#bowl #bowlers #cup #defensive #field