Quotes About Defense

I think I've got an outstanding defensive assistant staff that's really going to help us have consistent, strong defenses. And offensively, we have an excellent staff. We've got some younger guys on offense, but that's what I coach and have my entire coaching career.

I've got a good first step and things of that nature. So it's just about using your body to make the defense play at your tempo and react to you.

If you don't stick up for what's yours, and defend what's yours... what are you?

Let's just say, guns are not a part of my everyday thought process or life but I do agree that sometimes you have to protect what's yours.

The biggest thing in terms of route running for me is knowing what the defense is in, knowing the coverage. Once you know the coverage, now you can start manipulating the defense. You can start to kind of trick them in where you're going to go and where you want to get open.

I've always said I learned to defend myself from an opponent coming for a hard hit. Tricks are part of my repertoire; I use them to try to get past my opponents, but the objective is always to score goals.

I think you have to go deep into the bag of tricks, so to speak, to try and slow down the quarterback.

I like entertaining football but, at the same time, you can't concede goals. That's a tricky balance to find.

I always tried to defend high up the pitch, to be in the opposition's half and play the game there.

The name of the game is 'kill the quarterback.' Every football team tries to knock the guy out of the game that's handling the ball.

If terrorism tries to dent the security of this country and its sovereignty, we will give it a befitting reply.

If you live in free countries, you don't have to spend all your life arguing about freedom because it is all around you. It seems redundant to make a lot of noise about something when, in fact, there it is. But if someone tries to remove it, it becomes important for you to formulate your own defenses of it.

When Senator Cruz, with all due respect, tries to throw my network and CNN under the bus, let me stand up for my colleagues and journalists here.

I just play hard on the defensive end. For me, being a good defender is someone who plays very hard on defense and just tries hard.

You know what, we can be really fierce with each other but as soon as someone tries to take either one of us on, that's not one of us, we back each other up.

When we lose the ball, I don't want to win it back directly. I act smarter now, have better anticipation, and also start earlier when somebody tries to lob the ball over me.

I'll be in a cadence, and I'll start to see one thing that a defense is starting to do, I'm like, 'I saw that two months ago on film.' And then that triggers whatever call you need to make.

Beginning to dismantle the Pentagon would save $1 trillion a year - a small government proposal if ever there was one.

The left wants to protect social programs, the right wants to protect defense and intelligence spending and all the rest. I say the defense and intelligence world will be better off with a smaller budget. They would be less encumbered by bloat and able to maneuver the way they used to be able and not trip over themselves.

The right raw materials can... double or triple the protective power of the immune system.

We know we want to support our troops. We want to make sure that they have all the equipment they need.

It is time we had a defense budget that lives within its means, accounts for what is truly required in Iraq and provides the best possible support for all our troops.

We need to spend more money to insure that our troops are properly equipped.

As I said a moment ago, there is no higher priority in our budget, or certainly in the budgets of the past few years, than providing for what is needed for the protection and security of our country and support of our troops.