Defense Quotes
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If you let your hitting bother your defense, you are not going to be very good.
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I probably visualize myself, the shots I'm going to get in the game, how I'm going to play defense, what we have to do to stop the other team's best player, what it's going to take out of me, the whole aspect of the game.
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Our defense has been feeding off effort and attitude. We had three guys on the same page before, but not five.
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It is not overwhelmingly difficult for a committed group of players with only average individual basketball skills to put together a very good team defense.
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Everybody would like to see that. Oregon State plays very aggressive on defense. They try to get eight or nine guys down to stop the run and play really tight press coverage with their corners. What they try to do is get a pass rush and put a clock on the quarterback, and they're very good at that. They have three new starters in the secondary. Everyone has been waiting for the ball to go downfield and we're definitely going to have to do that in this game and make some big plays.
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Our ultimate weapon is not our guns but our beliefs...The spread of freedom is the best security for the free. It is our last line of defense and our first line of attack.
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It's just really exciting to have the ball in my hands. Not just on defense but to make plays on special teams also.
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Defense is gonna help me in particular and help my team, so that's what I've really focused on.
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Defense wins championships. A good offense is beat by a good defense, always.
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I want to establish quality on both ends of the floor. It's very important going into the conference tournament that we're not just good on offense, but also good on defense. We have to have a better defensive conversion from offense to defense, we need to take care of the ball. I need to see a complete performance.
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The Department of Defense took 40 years to get where it got.
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Broadly speaking, the problems with the Espionage Act are that it is hopelessly broad. And we tend to use the Espionage Act - we think about the Espionage Act as forbidding disclosures of classified information. That's not really what the statute says. What the statute talks about is information related to the national defense.
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Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnson's administration, especially in the Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's brilliant 'whiz kids' tried to micro-manage the Vietnam war, with disastrous results.
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We were not good, and unprepared, I guess, and emotionally not ready. They were so much more aggressive to the ball. Something that has been a staple of ours, our defense, just let us down tonight.
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Any defense of common sense must allow that it is revisable.
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I'm human. But overall, whenever I see anyone being made fun of or given a hard time, I rush to their defense. I want to help them because I know how it feels.
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We cannot allow the defense of American lives to be held hostage by the United Nations -- which has already given Saddam Hussein a final warning, and now wants to give him another final warning. And, if he doesn't heed that, they will threaten him with yet another warning.
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It's frustrating to lose like that. The defense wasn't there at all tonight.
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I haven't played defense in a couple years.
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I wasn't going to play on defense in college.
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Books and beer are the best and worst defense.
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In going for the last shot of the game most people wait too long to take the shot. Give yourself a chance to get the first shot and tap the ball in. Your players are normally inside the defense.
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I pride myself on knowing the defense.
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I trust my ability to play in any defense.
