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Quotes About Defense

I did play flag football. I actually got my lip busted. My team was really good; we won first place in the season, and won the Super Bowl. I was one of the defense guys. I was really good.
~ Chad Gilbert
I know what it takes to get to the Super Bowl, what Giants pride and that defense is really about.
~ Jason Pierre-Paul
You name me a Super Bowl that had a pacifistic defense, and I'll give you my paycheck. I'm serious. There aren't any.
~ Mike Daniels
The '84 Bears were just like the '85 Bears, they just didn't win the Super Bowl. The defense was the same.
~ Archie Manning
I think the NFL season starts with the first three or four games and all the predictions come out. You're either great on offense, bad on defense, great on defense, bad on offense. You're either going to have a Super Bowl chance or you won't. And I think after that, people kind of think everything's set in stone.
~ Devin McCourty
Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth is not only a matter of offense, in that it makes certain assertions. It is also a matter of defense in that it must be able to make a cogent and sensible response to the counterpoints that are raised.
~ Ravi Zacharias
If you are already a Christian, then you also have a task before you—to articulate the truth about Christ, to defend it, to share it, to preserve it, to pass it along to the next generations. As J. B. Phillips so powerfully renders 2 Corinthians 4:6: "God, who first ordered light to shine in darkness, has flooded our hearts with his light, so that we can enlighten men with the knowledge of the glory of God, as we see it in the face of Christ.
~ Ravi Zacharias
Thirteen centuries ago, Europe was able to stop the theocratic Islamic tidal wave because it had a faith to defend. The value-less culture of today will not be able to withstand the attack.
~ Ravi Zacharias
She was engaged in the task of defending her position in life, said Heyst. It's a very respectable task.
~ Joseph Conrad
Por Júpiter, eran flechas! ¡Y nos estaban disparando!
~ Joseph Conrad
May it not be charged against them!" First Peter 3:15 uses the word defense in a way that denotes the kind of defense one would make to a legal inquiry, asking, "Why are you a Christian?" A believer ought to give an adequate answer to this question. The command to be ready with an answer is directed toward every follower of Jesus—not just pastors, teachers, and leaders.
~ Josh McDowell
A man walked into a Christian bookstore in an Arabic-speaking country. "I want your best book on the defense of Christianity." The bookstore manager handed him Evidence That Demands A Verdict in Arabic. As the man left he exclaimed, "I'm doing my dissertation on destroying Christianity." Six months later the storeowner baptized the student who had become a believer.
~ Josh McDowell
the United States government was at the mercy of special-interest groups, lobbies like the National Rifle Association and the American Medical Association, the automobile and oil industries, every kind of defense manufacturer, how could democracy be served?
~ Joyce Carol Oates
who had daringly come to his defense in a roomful of men, who had kissed him with tender passion, now seemed to be passionately attached not to any man, but to a pile of stones instead. Two years ago he'd
~ Judith McNaught
according to the teachings of Islam, war is to be waged not against the enemy but against the aggressor. (p. 49)
~ Wahiduddin Khan
Winning squads emphasize fundamentals-pick and rolls,teamwork,and defense. They play with passion and they play hard. They move the ball, and when their players don't have it, they move well without the ball. They play with sagacity by exploiting mismatches. They gauge their opponents weaknesses and then attack them relentlessly.
~ Walt Frazier
If I were playing today, I'd steal the ball from these guys when they go under the ball with their hands because that's when they have less control of their dribble. Once you go under the ball, there;s nothing you can do except carry it or pick it up. Whereas with the yo-yo dribble, I could dribble a little quicker- change my and cadence- to elude my defender
~ Walt Frazier
Europeans are a people with little willingness to defend themselves. They are people who believe that peace treaties, appeasement, and disarmament produce peace.
~ Walter E. Williams
We are quite rich enough to defend ourselves, whatever the cost. We must now learn that we are quite rich enough to educate ourselves as we need to be educated.
~ Walter Lippmann
In other words, the dream itself, hidden in the memory, rises to its own defense when it hears itself being challenged by an alternate version, and so reveals itself.
~ Walter Murch
The war on terrorism can never be won.
~ Warren Buffett
The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves and this of course is to be effected by stratagem.
~ Washington Irving
The best defense is great offense. . .We fight through our mistakes and failures by maximizing our forward motion.
~ Wayde Goodall