A typical leader has - a natural tendency is to be defensive in the face of a crisis. The first reaction is to blame someone - or something - else. Often, the blame is aimed at something abstract or non-controllable, which often has nothing to do with the crisis but is adjacent to whatever is going on, so it's an easy target.

Brad Feld

Defensively, hitting-wise, running the bases. There's always room to improve. That motivates me to get a little better every day.

Aaron Judge

Wise Ways Way

When there is stuff being written about your family and people ask you questions which are very personal in nature, it makes you defensive and almost makes you angry.

Abhay Deol

Nature Family Your

Once people take ownership over the decision to receive feedback, they're less defensive about it.

Adam Grant

Take T Ship

The Italians are very strong defensively. They showed in Euro 2000 how good defensively they are.

Alan Hansen

Good Wed Very

Osama bin Laden characterized his terrorist activities as 'defensive jihad,' provoked by 'debauched infidels' bent on enslaving the Muslim world. The lead industry blamed 'ignorant parents' for applying lead paint to juvenile furniture.

Albert Bandura

Yin World Us

I find myself bitter, defensive, and more misanthropic than I care to admit.

Alec Baldwin

Car Than T

I want to meet Brandon Crawford and just pick his brain and figure out what helps him out on the defensive side of the ball.

Alex Bregman

Want Us T

Slowly from just touching the ball I got to making the ball and eventually hitting a decent defensive shot. Because I don't have a lot of weapons I have to use my speed.

Alex de Minaur

Weapons Weapon Vent

How can I ever dog Derek Jeter? It's impossible. There is nothing to knock. He's a great defensive player. He's a great offensive player.

Alex Rodriguez

Great Thing Thin

Most of my football education was under Hope Powell, and were some of her training sessions boring? Yes. But were they necessary? Yes. We fully understood what we needed to do as a defensive unit.

Alex Scott

Hope Education Yes

There are major funding gaps for security research generally, particularly when it comes to defensive security practices and tools that will contribute to the protection and defense of the Internet.

Alex Stamos

Art Will UN

There's something to be said for writing in the morning. At other points in the day, you're a bit more defensive.

Alex Turner

Morning You Writing

I only really fake it anymore with sommeliers who are being really snotty to me and I don't want to take their grief and so I try to do something to kind of throw them off or put them on the defensive, even if I don't know what I'm talking about.

Alton Brown

Wit Who Want

It is apparent that Christianity and Islam must come, and come immediately, to a closer understanding, and it is equally apparent that their unity if achieved, will be the most effective defensive measure against Communist expansion.

Aly Khan

Will Us Unity

You don't want to give the defensive back any signals about what route you're going to run.

Amari Cooper

You Want UN

I feel like I know what defensive backs are going to do before they do it.

Amari Cooper

T Now Like

When I was in Germany I never played like this, so defensive - almost a left-back, but that is good for me because defensive work was something I missed in Germany.

Andre Schurrle

Work Good Use

I was lucky enough at Stanford to have Vic Fangio as the defensive coordinator for a year, and then Jason Tarver.

Andrew Luck

Year Then Tan

I want to be on the All-Defensive team, be rookie of the year, make the All-Star team, all that type of stuff.

Andrew Wiggins

Year Want Type

The more defensive and angry I get, the more I later discover those feelings are usually just projections of feelings I am having towards myself.

Andy Dunn

War Usual Us

I was trying to be improving my game, being more aggressive, and not just playing from the defensive end.

Angelique Kerber

When it does not click offensively, it is very easy to get down defensively.

Anne Donovan

The experience of playing EuroLeague ball gave myself a different perspective on just the way the game's played. Every possession matters. Everything has to be on point. Offence, defensively - everybody has to be connected.

Anthony Bennett

I think Von Miller's got great style. For a defensive end, I think he has receiver-type style, swag.

Antonio Brown

If you can hang in games by staying close defensively, then good things can happen.

Ara Parseghian

I'm not the kind of guy who gets defensive after something goes wrong.

Arbaaz Khan

I remember being told by my very first photographer that if I lost weight, and I was a skinny model, it would do wonders for my career. My mum got really defensive - 'I don't think we will be doing that, thank you so much, goodbye.'

Ashley Graham

I don't know what position Scottie was; he was just a basketball player. He could dribble, shoot, pass and rebound. Defensively, he was excellent. He had quick hands and quick feet with a great understanding of the game. He could do it all.

B. J. Armstrong

Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and the war on terrorism have reduced the pace of military transformation and have revealed our lack of preparation for defensive and stability operations. This Administration has overextended our military.

Barack Obama

One time, I was practicing against the Tennessee Titans, and one of their defensive linemen took a cheap shot at our running back, so I planted him.

Baron Corbin

Look, I'm happy to defend my dad. I don't think he needs any defensiveness.

Beau Biden

But when it comes to things of the mind, things like coaching, game-planning, coming up with offensive and defensive schemes, there's no reason why a woman couldn't be in the mix and shouldn't be in the mix.

Becky Hammon

The way I play, it's very much more a mental game than a physical game. I'm looking for space and where are players leaving space. Defensively, where are we at numerical disadvantages? Do I shift more to the left because they have more players on their right side? It's about reading the game before the game happens.

Becky Sauerbrunn

I care about all the characters I play, and I get quite defensive about them.

Ben Chaplin

Murder is an offensive act. The term cannot be applied legitimately to any defensive act.

Benjamin Tucker

And capital punishment, however ineffective it may be and through whatever ignorance it may be resorted to, is a strictly defensive act, - at least in theory.

Benjamin Tucker

The Anarchists answer that the abolition of the State will leave in existence a defensive association, resting no longer on a compulsory but on a voluntary basis, which will restrain invaders by any means that may prove necessary.

Benjamin Tucker

I think that's part of building your team is trying to anticipate where your team is going and to a certain extent where, especially defensively because you have to react to what they put on the field. Defensively you have to be able to defend those things.

Bill Belichick

I loved to make a great defensive play, I'd rather do that than hit a home run.

Bill Dickey

I thought we were aggressive across the board defensively, and you could just see it grow. As the game went along, you could see the confidence grow. It showed in the fourth quarter.

Bill Laimbeer

Bishops need to resist the defensiveness that institutions often fall back on in crisis moments.

Blase J. Cupich

I was an undersized, undertalented defensive back. I knocked myself out multiple times running into people. I ended my career without an anterior cruciate ligament. I still don't have one. At a certain point, you realize: I've used up all I've got.

Bob Stoops

I am the finest defensive player in the game.

Bobby Riggs

My Italian adventure was positive because I improved a lot in tactical terms, most of all defensively, which is something I hadn't worked on quite so much.

Bojan Krkic

These diva wide receivers want to go to the bathroom. As a defensive lineman, we didn't go to the bathroom.

Booger McFarland

You can be a great defensive player, and if you don't put up splash statistics, then you're not going to get noticed.

Booger McFarland

A typical leader has - a natural tendency is to be defensive in the face of a crisis. The first reaction is to blame someone - or something - else. Often, the blame is aimed at something abstract or non-controllable, which often has nothing to do with the crisis but is adjacent to whatever is going on, so it's an easy target.

Brad Feld

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

Branch Rickey

It's something that I have to learn to do: affect the game in a different way. If I don't get it on the offensive end, try to get it on the defensive end.

Brandon Ingram

If I become defensive and upset right away, then that's going to adversely affect how I deal with it and it's probably not going to be good press for me and probably be bad just because I'm angry. Just be open and pleasant.

Brandon Routh