Defense Quotes
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Ever since that game, I've tried to play tough defense in practice. Defense wins games.
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There has never been a great 'silent' defense.
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I feel more comfortable with the ball in my hands, playing the point guard. But I like playing the 2, too. I think I bring tough defense and the ability to score and also get my teammates the ball to score.
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As a defense, we want to go into every game and have our offense and the rest of the team rely on us. We pulled it off a second week in a row, and I hope we can keep doing it.
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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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I keep reading about all the guys they have coming back, ... We have 10 starters coming back on offense, eight on defense.
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Defense was the key. We were lazy before the game, but at halftime, we didn't look back, we looked ahead.
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It's frustrating to lose like that. The defense wasn't there at all tonight.
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This is a physical game, and that's how you have to play. When you do that, the defense eventually gets tired of tackling you.
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Outsiders develop humor as a defense; why do you think most comedians are gay or Jewish?
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Goals have never defined me as a player. What has defined me is my impact on the team. If that means passing or playing defense to win, I'll do it.
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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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Some days, it's a real challenge to get the offense going. Our game relies on pitching, defense and timely hitting.
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The American people can be - and deserve to be - assured that actions taken in their defense are consistent with their values and their laws.
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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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There are lots of different ideas, lots of different opinions about the First Amendment Defense Act and what it should be. There were a lot of different forms of it while I was on the Hill. But I would say that I agree that the decision on gay marriage does mean that we need to take some steps to defend religious liberty.
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Imagine a country that flies into space, launches Sputniks, creates such a defense system, and it can't resolve the problem of women's pantyhose. There's no toothpaste, no soap powder, not the basic necessities of life. It was incredible and humiliating to work in such a government.
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I haven't played defense in a couple years.
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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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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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I trust my ability to play in any defense.
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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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Any defense of common sense must allow that it is revisable.
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To choose a hardship for ourselves is our only defense against that hardship. This is what is meant by accepting suffering. Those who, by their very nature, can suffer completely, utterly, have an advantage. That is how we can disarm the power of suffering, make it our own creation, our own choice; submit to it. A justification for suicide.
