- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020
Defensively Quotes
On tactics, adaptation and self-awareness.
Most of these defensively quotes come from football and sports, covering everything from learning to read the game as a running back to keeping a compact, attacking high line.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whites often respond defensively when linked to other whites as a group or 'accused' of collectively benefiting from racism, because as individuals, each white person is 'different' from any other white person and expects to be seen as such.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you play against different people from all walks of life you can't do the same thing against every player defensively or offensively. You have to change up the way you go at a player.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It actually took me a year to learn how to play running back - to understand what they were doing defensively and then what our guys were doing every single play.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I could handle the basketball but I wasn't quick enough to move defensively. Offensively, I was fine. I could get around, I could do stuff, but defensively I wasn't quick enough. I couldn't keep up. That was the biggest thing. And that was at the Division II level.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started in a 4-3-3 formation at Ajax, playing in left midfield. There, you need to be just as involved defensively as you are going forward. You attack and you defend, and that allows you to be a complete player.
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- Nov 07, 2020