Defense Quotes
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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.
Thomas Sowell -
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.
Mikhail Gorbachev
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I wasn't going to play on defense in college.
Ezekiel Elliott -
When there is no offense I make no defense.
Charles Grandison Finney -
I keep reading about all the guys they have coming back, ... We have 10 starters coming back on offense, eight on defense.
Bob Stoops -
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.
Cesare Pavese -
If you play angry, you lose what you're supposed to do. On defense we just read our keys and play fast.
Brian Urlacher