Defense Quotes

We would love to have Gary down here. He's still tenacious on defense, and I know he still wants [a title]. And I'm the only guy in the world who can get him one.

I knew Rick Pitino was going to make them play that outbreak, monkey defense. He's been doing it all his life.

I used to sleep with my books in piles all over my bed and sometimes they were the only thing keeping me warm and always the only thing keeping me alive. Books are the best and worst defense.

The passion to change the world for the better is a more powerful force than defense to keep it the same.

My sole defense against the natural horror which death inspires is to love beyond it.

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.

For the first time in Rex Ryan’s career as a head coach, his offense is now better than his defense.

President-elect Trump has said he would like to improve relations with Russia. His choice for defense secretary views Russia as America's number one threat.

I play defense and I'm a unique defender because I'm tall and slim but I also have great speed.

If I had a defense like Hal Mumme has, I would be trying them on every kickoff.

I had learned many years ago in private business never to take responsibility without adequate authority; and the new Secretary of Defense, as budgets were sharply cut, quickly found that out.

"Bobby Tom told me he’s not afraid of the Chargers’ defense." "Bobby Tom’ll tell you he’s not afraid of nuclear war, so I wouldn’t put too much stock in his opinion."

If you let someone know you appreciate him or her, especially when you're going to disagree, it gets that person's defenses down.

We need leaders who will stand unapologetically in defense of marriage and life.

Scouting is important. You just want to know whom you are playing against and how to play them well within the team's defense.

Sometimes, you are going to give up a bucket, but defense is the key. That's the most important thing.

Art is our defense against hysteria and death.

It's only by investing properly in our defense that we can ensure we're properly equipped to face our shared challenges together.

The U.K.-U.S. defense relationship is the broadest, deepest and most advanced of any two countries, sharing military hardware and expertise.

If virtuous, the government need not fear the fair operation of attack and defense. Nature has given to man no other means of sifting the truth, either in religion, law, or politics.

Although our prospect is peace, our policy and purpose are to provide for defense by all those means to which our resources are competent.

The best defense of democracy is an informed electorate.

Being a running back helped me tremendously. It taught me judgement in the defense and how to judge the football.

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.

I tell the truth, and truth is the ultimate defense against libel.

Europe has become the first line of defense for the United States. It has become a training ground for terrorists.

Defense. That' the thing I'm known for.

We have switched from defense to offense and in this battle all the members of the Hamas leadership are legitimate targets.

... the habit of literature [is] the best defense against believing the half-truths of ideologues and the lies of demagogues.

The cliché organizes life; it expropriates people's identity; it becomes ruler, defense lawyer, judge, and the law.

Federal nutrition programs are the first line of defense for food insecure Americans, but do not meet all of the needs of everyone who needs help.

A major theme in all my books is that the CIA is not only the first line of defense but they should also be the first line of offense.

The participants expressed anxiety about the problems the Defense Ministry had been meeting in realizing its plans for future development.

In accordance with the Constitution of the Russian Federation, the issues of foreign policy and defense are fully in the hands of the president.

The International Atomic Energy Agency is controlling this, the sanctions against Iran are lifted - but still the US are working on their missile defense system. What is the point of this?

Violence breeds violence. Acts of violence committed in "justice" or in affirmation of "rights" or in defense of "peace" do not end violence. They prepare and justify its continuation.

Anyone who tells you that one political party has a monopoly on the best defense of our nation is committing a fraud on the American people.

Government can have no more than two legitimate purposes - the suppression of injustice against individuals within the community, and the common defense against external invasion.

In addition to achieving outside the industry, agriculture, national defense science and technology modernization, we are faced with the important task of system modernization.

It amazes me that we spend 20% of the US budget on defense and far-off wars, and not on fighting cancer, disease, and aging.

I am never proud to participate in violence, yet I know that each of us must care enough for ourselves that we can be ready and able to come to our own defense when and wherever needed.

The perception of a child who has not yet learned to protect itself by developing the tunnel vision that keeps out ninety percent of the universe.

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense I call it intelligence.

Attending a funeral would leave the average person insane, if they truly believed that sooner or later they are also going to die.

A president cannot defend a nation if he is not held accountable to its laws.

I was persisting in reading my present environment in the light of my old one.

Fear never leaves you. It just adapts to you. And that’s the meaning of strengthening a warrior spirit from within, as you can’t fight all your battles with the same weapons.

I'm sorry. I use my rapier wit to hide my inner pain.

Love' is the only weapon I have, I will defend with love, I will attack with love.