Defenses Quotes

• I am drawn to those parts; I like the tough girls because they are not tough. It's a veil; it's a disguise. It's defenses. At the core, everybody is human, everybody is fragile, everybody is terrified, and the fear is what propels you to be tough.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Girls
  • Disguise
  • Fragile

• I thought Mark looked real good on Friday. But hopefully he'll be able to take more work this week. We'll need to start this game off absolutely sharp, playing against Tampa. They have one of the best defenses in the league.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Good
  • Work
  • Real

• My style was impetuous, my defenses were impregnable, and I was ferocious.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Style
  • Defenses
  • Ferocious

• Don’t succumb. Fight. You are of today, take hold of today, don’t regress, don’t lose yourself, keep a tight grip. Above all, don’t give in to distracted or malicious or angry monologues. Eliminate the exclamation points. Organize your defenses, preserve your wholeness.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Fight
  • Angry
  • Succumb

• And all the defenses they had so carefully constructed to prevent hope from entering their minds collapsed.

  

  Alfred Lansing
  • Hope
  • Entering
  • Defenses

• It's not like defenses are out there just giving guys 50 and 60 points. You have to look at what's going on this season and realize there are just as many great players playing today as there ever has been in this game.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Great
  • Today
  • Game

• I would like for the offense to look good, but that's not going to be easy against one of the best defenses in the league that I've gone against, ... It will kind of depend on how the game goes for us, but our game plan would be roughly a third, a third and a third.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Good
  • Game
  • Player

• He's a big, athletic player. He has great hands, ... He's a smart player, so he knows how to read defenses and find soft spots. He's the type of player that's able to make plays whenever we need them.

  

  Brady Quinn
  • Player
  • Spots
  • Defenses

• If you asked me what caused aging, I would say free radicals and molecules, which spontaneously shift and form and cause damage in all our cells and genes. The body usually repairs and replaces the damage in these genes. But as you get older, the aging clock turns down those defenses.

  

  Michael Fossel
  • Damage
  • Older
  • Genes

• We have forty-four defenses for him, but he has forty-five ways to score.

  

  Al Attles
  • Ways
  • Score
  • Defenses

• He has been a key element in numerous successful programs and he has been the architect of some of college football's best defenses during the past 25 years.

  

  Bret Bielema
  • Football
  • Architect
  • Programs

• If anyone should tell you that a particular person has spoken critically of you, don't bother with excuses or defenses. Just smile and reply, "I guess that person doesn't know about all my other faults. Otherwise, he wouldn't have mentioned only these."

  

  Epictetus
  • Faults
  • Excuses
  • Defenses

• She knew what such grief was like and she had built her own defenses high over the years. But if you raised them too much, they became a prison and in the end you drowned with no one to hear you scream.

  

  Elizabeth Chadwick
  • Grief
  • Prison
  • Scream

• When the mask of self-righteousness has been torn from us and we stand stripped of all our accustomed defenses, we are candidates for God's generous grace.

  

  Erwin W. Lutzer
  • Mask
  • Candidates
  • God's Grace

• One of the most significant patterns established by those who were emotionally abused in childhood is based on what is called the “repetition compulsion”—an unconscious drive to repeat the same type of abusive relationship we ourselves experienced as a child in an attempt to accomplish a new outcome. The repetition compulsion compels us to transfer our longings, conflicts, and defenses from the past onto the present in an attempt to undo the past.

  

  Beverly Engel
  • Relationship
  • Childhood
  • Conflicts

• It would be a lot different for me because there is a lot of information that you need to know about as a player. How pitchers are pitching you, how defenses are playing, certain situations about certain pitchers.

  

  Ernie Banks
  • Player
  • Information
  • Pitchers

• The man opposite, divided between anger and relief at the stripping away of his defenses, his nerves jangling, was taken utterly aback by the extraordinary beauty of Hilary's eyes without their glasses, by their keen, straight glance, by the enveloping warmth of his utterly happy yet rather deprecating smile. The immense power of his goodwill, together with his personal humility, made a sudden unexpected appeal that got right under Malony's guard before he knew where he was. He wasn't out to do you good, this chap - he didn't think enough of himself for that - he was simply out to jog along beside you for a little, and pass the time of day, knowing you were down on your luck, and thinking a bit of companionship might not come amiss.

  

  Elizabeth Goudge
  • Beauty
  • Smile
  • Anger