Defense Quotes

It's a game of making great pitches at the right time, being opportunistic by getting a run at the right time and playing good defense.

The best defense against democracy is to distract people.

If you're not talking, you're not playing defense

In war the only sure defense is offense, and the efficiency of the offense depends on the warlike souls of those conducting it.

The strategies of offense and defense are very similar between chess and football. Chess really brought closeness to the team back in those days.

The best form of defense is attack.

American power should be used not just in the defense of American interests but for the promotion of American principles.

The best defense against partisanship is expertise.

There’s only one basic principle of self-defense- you must apply the most effective weapon, as soon as possible, to the most vulnerable target.

If a felon attacks you and lives, he will reasonably conclude that he can do it again. By submitting to him, you not only imperil your own life, but you jeopardize the lives of others.

Mystification is the psychiatrist's defense against the danger of being found out.

Satan's number one weapon is pride. God's number one defense is humility.

I asked you to pack your headgear and shoulder pads, but more importantly your defense and your kicking game, because that's what wins game like this.

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance and a willingness to act in its defense.

Virtue, dear friend, needs no defense, The surest guard is innocence: None knew, till guilt created fear, What darts or poisoned arrows were

There's no greater service to this country than the defense of its freedom.

This economic boycott is our means of self-defense. President Roosevelt has advocated its use in the National Recovery Administration.

Russia doesn't want any arms race. Russia would not engage in the arms race. We have enough technological means to provide not very expensive answer to the efforts to build missile defense.

Against those skilled in attack, an enemy does not know where to defend; against the experts in defense, the enemy does not know where to attack.

When you're dealing with an in-law violation, I think the first line of defense is for the blood relation to have a serious talk.

Books and beer are the best and worst defense.

In the defense of civil liberties there can be no exceptions, or there will soon be many.

Optimism is my best defense.

Don't be forecasting evil unless it is what you can guard against. Anxiety is good for nothing if we can't turn it into a defense.

Citizens of the democratic societies should undertake a course of intellectual self defense to protect themselves from manipulation and control, and to lay the basis for meaningful democracy.

Pawns: they are the soul of this game, they alone form the attack and defense

The building of Kuwait and her Eminence, it's defense and protection, is primarily a responsibility by her people and the efforts of her children

The liberty of the press is not confined to newspapers and periodicals. It necessarily embraces pamphlets and leaflets.

"He who wants to protect everything, protects nothing," is one of the fundamental rules of defense.

You [Jews] did slay Christ, you did lift violent hands against the Master, you did spill his precious blood. This is why you have no chance for atonement, excuse, or defense.

Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity.

People use irony as a defense mechanism.

My only defense is the acquisition of vocabulary.

The backbone of our nation's domestic defense against terrorist attacks will continue to be the men and women in local law enforcement and emergency services.

I've never known a Philadelphian who wasn't a downright 'character'; possibly a defense mechanism resulting from the dullness of their native habitat.

Harold, the young kids out there are not going to be willing to go to the barricades in defense of lowered transaction costs.

It's always great when a defense is able to create turnovers and score. That's something we missed last year. We'd get some turnovers, but we never scored points.

Anyone who is aware of his environment knows that the peril of physical assault does exist, and that it exists everywhere and at all times.

The attack and our response show just how vital Arizona's military bases are to the defense of our country. We need to do everything we can to protect them.

Self-defense is not only our right; it is our duty.

Given the genocidal belligerence of Iranian threats against Israel, it is hard to take issue with Israel's right to preemptive self-defense.

It is much easier and safer to scare someone into submission than to beat them into submission.

It's pitching, hitting and defense that wins. Any two can win. All three make you unbeatable.

Most people's lives are nothing more than pointlessly frantic activity used as a psychological defense against their own impotence and fear.

Defense is what matters. Scoring doesn't interest me.

If you want team play, you must stress defense. Defense makes players unselfish.

Defense doesn't break down on the help, it breaks down on the recovery.

War for the sake of war is sin, but war for the sake of defense is duty.

No nation can be strong except in the strength of God, or safe except in His defense. The trust of our people in God should be declared on our national coins.

There isn't any real good reason for fighting except self-defense.