Top Defensive Quotes
When actors are being defensive and defending their position, that is when you get less than good acting.
John Boorman
I've learned you can make a mistake and the whole world doesn't end. I had to learn to allow myself to make a mistake without becoming defensive and unforgiving.
Lisa Kudrow
I loved to make a great defensive play, I'd rather do that than hit a home run.
Bill Dickey
I was a gang leader. Although, it was a gang for defensive purposes. It was not a gang to sell drugs.
Jack Bowman
The idea that a war can be won by standing on the defensive and waiting for the enemy to attack is a dangerous fallacy, which owes its inception to the desire to evade the price of victory.
Douglas Haig
All Defensive Quotes
When actors are being defensive and defending their position, that is when you get less than good acting.
John Boorman 
59% of people like this quote
I've learned you can make a mistake and the whole world doesn't end. I had to learn to allow myself to make a mistake without becoming defensive and unforgiving.
Lisa Kudrow 
58% of people like this quote
I loved to make a great defensive play, I'd rather do that than hit a home run.
Bill Dickey 
57% of people like this quote
The idea that a war can be won by standing on the defensive and waiting for the enemy to attack is a dangerous fallacy, which owes its inception to the desire to evade the price of victory.
Douglas Haig 
56% of people like this quote
I was a gang leader. Although, it was a gang for defensive purposes. It was not a gang to sell drugs.
Jack Bowman 
56% of people like this quote
Of course there are regrets. I shall regret always that I found my own authentic voice in politics. I was too conservative, too conventional. Too safe, too often. Too defensive. Too reactive. Later, too often on the back foot.
John Major 
55% of people like this quote
War, in some instances, especially defensive, has been authorized by Heaven.
Ezra Stiles 
54% of people like this quote
Look at me, I'm getting defensive about something that happened so many years ago, somebody said. I'll have to find out who that was and if he's still alive.
Paul Reubens 
54% of people like this quote
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