Defense Quotes
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We talked about being fast, about being physical. Everyone on our team is fast. Everyone on our team is physical. ... Everybody understands what coach Dungy wants out of the defense. Once we figured it out, it was easy for us to go out and play fast, play hard.
Bob Sanders
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We've had an extra year in the system. I don't see why we can't be the best defense in the league.
Brian Urlacher
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Just getting our plays in, slowing down the game and making sure we were executing on offense and defense, and playing together, not just getting transition layups all the time.
Stefanie Dolson
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I think what Secretary Ash Carter is seeing, and I'm glad he is, is that we got to get NATO back working for the common defense. We've got to do more to support our partners in NATO, and we have to send a very clear message to Putin that this kind of belligerence, that this kind of testing of boundaries will have to be responded to. The best way to do that is to put more armor in, put more money from the Europeans in so they're actually contributing more to their own defense.
Hillary Clinton
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Love, like truth, is the unassailable defense.
Diane Ackerman
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St. Peter, on my judgment day, will not ask me about the B-2 or my defense votes. He will ask me about my vote to protect innocent human life.
Bob Dornan
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We are soldiers who devote ourselves to arms not for the invasion of other countries, but for the defense of our own, not for the gratification of our private interests but for public security.
Nathanael Greene
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The way our defense is set up, it puts me in situations where I'm one-on-one in making tackles on running backs. When I go into it, I think I am going to win. It really doesn't matter the size, height, weight, whatever. I'm not afraid of putting my body in there.
Bob Sanders
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Art is our defense against hysteria and death.
Theodore Roethke
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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.
Eric Holder
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The best form of self defense is to become invisible... If you can't do that learn Wing Chun!
Wong Shun Leung
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I'm at a loss for words on our defense. We've got to have significant improvement.
Avery Johnson
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Today, our defense flew around and had a good time. It was fun out there.
Brian Urlacher
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That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself.
Thomas Hobbes
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I'm just trying to take what the defense gives me.
Eli Manning
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I think everybody has the same attitude. It's like we have something to prove. Last year, our rush defense was not as good as we wanted. This year, we've got Corey.
Bob Sanders
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To just come down and cough it up after you've played decent defense for most of the game... it's deflating for them and what we're trying to build.
Brett Brown
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Defense is on the fly, it's reactive; you have to react to the offense. I have to prevent someone from doing something when they want to do it.
Charles Tillman
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Their [the U.S.’s] defense budget in absolute figures is almost 25 times bigger than Russia’s. This is what in defense is referred to as ‘their home — their fortress.’ And good for them, I say. Well done!
Vladimir Putin
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For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense.
Dante Alighieri
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The ABA works tirelessly in its efforts involving the first line of defense: the prevention of burn injuries.
Richard Neal
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My only means of self defense is to wiggle my eye and feign being a salamander. It has saved my life but once I was partially eaten by a bald eagle who thought I was a salamander. Hence, my skills. Hence.
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
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He can provide offense, and yet he knows when he has to be relied on to play solid, physical defense.
Walt Kyle
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In order for us to stay in the game, we had to figure out how to slow them down. The first thought was defensive transition. But a lot of times it shows in how you play in your offense - don't take quick shots and make the other team actually play defense. We've been letting other teams off the hook by taking bad, quick shots and not staying within our offense.
Edward Charles Ford