Offense Quotes

Offense Quote of the day

Offense sells tickets, defense wins games, rebounding wins championships.

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

People who wish to be offended will always find some occasion for taking offense.

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

An impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history.

Truth offends everyone outside its definitions. But the irony of truth is that the greater its potential for offense, the greater its potential for giving hope.

The best defense is a good offense.

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

One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purposes without resistance, is, by disarming the people, and making it an offense to keep arms.

Who you are and who you love should never be a fireable offense

Forgiveness is not a feeling; it is a commitment. It is a choice to show mercy, not to hold the offense up against the offender. Forgiveness is an expression of love.

Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.

A fool contributes nothing worth hearing and takes offense at everything.

The Bears treat offense as if its bubonic plague.

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 is just as much an offense to take offense as it is to give offense.

Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author's mind, without offense.

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

You add to the suffering in the world when you take offense, just as much as you do when you give offense.

Baseball is the only sport I know that when you're on offense, the other team controls the ball.

Tragically, we live in a day when offense to God doesn't matter nearly as much as offense to others.

Criticize on defense and encourage on offense.

There's a group in California that wants to make suicide a capital offense punishable by death. That's like punishing someone for being on a hunger strike by sending them to bed with no supper.

Our society's obsession with tolerance leads to intolerance. Simply being a Christian today is an offense to our culture.

Of what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings?

They let dangerous men out of prison now, yes sir, I'm afraid it's so. Cause they're over crowded and it was only his fifth offense.

I think teams win. I don't think offense wins. I don't think defense wins. I don't think special teams - teams win.

You realize that suicide's a criminal offense. In less enlightened times they'd have hung you for it.

No offense to people who go on Tinder but I just feel like it's ruining romance, I really do.

Avoiding offense means that we don't accept each other as equals.

Offense is the essence of air power.

[My vision is] To make the world work for 100% of humanity in the shortest possible time through spontaneous cooperation without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone.

At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.

The vote is a power, a weapon of offense and defense, a prayer.

Love the offender, yet detest the offense.

It is right for him who asks forgiveness for his offenses to grant it to others.

Honey, no offense, but sometimes I think I could shoot you and watch you kick.

Offense sells tickets, but defense wins championships.

He who takes offense when offense was not intended is a fool, yet he who takes offense when offense is intended is an even greater fool for he has succumbed to the will of his adversary.

Anything designed to be inoffensive isn't worth your time -- life itself is pretty offensive, ending as it does with death.

If you know your ceremonies and culture you'll know where the offense takes place

An ardent supporter of the hometown team should go to a game prepared to take offense, no matter what happens.

Our response to an offense determines our future.

Your defense will save you on the nights that your offense isn't working.

Refusal to forgive reveals we have minimized our offense against God and we have maximized a brother's offense against us.

Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous.Love is never boastful or conceited. It is never rude or selfish. It does not take offense and is not resentful.

I am disappointed, but I am realistic too. When you put your defense back on the field repeatedly, the offense needs to do its job and the defense needs to get itself off the field.

In war the only sure defense is offense, and the efficiency of the offense depends on the warlike souls of those conducting it.

The strategies of offense and defense are very similar between chess and football. Chess really brought closeness to the team back in those days.

Hey, no offense, but do you mind if you put both your palms where I can see ’em?