Quotes About Defense

We have to defend democracy, but remember that not everything is politics. Without science, industry, and technology, no progress is possible, and without music and art, there's no soul.

There was no defense against the shells, he said, but they had calculated that three volumes of philosophy could stop bullets.

Los soldados aguardaron, cavando trincheras y amontonando sacos de tierra y piedras para formar una barricada, no tanto por la esperanza de protegerse, sino para distraer el miedo

I have the duty to protect my people, hurt my enemy, do the best I can with as few uninvolved casualties as possible - I can't have zero innocent casualties - and at minimum risk to the lives of our soldiers.

I vividly recall the physical sensation and emotion of playing defense behind my teammates - pitchers dominating opposing lineups, throwing up zero after zero as the innings progressed.

From the Green Mountain boys who joined the fight for independence; to a war that saved the Union, and two wars that would encircle the world; to Korea and Vietnam and the Middle East, and our F-16s defending the skies above Ground Zero on September 11, 2001; Vermonters have always answered our nation's call.

Well, first of all the defensive three-seconds rule doesn't allow you to play a true zone like you would in international ball and college. Another key factor is training. It is a very different defense to coach, in a pure sense. Not many coaches in the NBA have focused on that, they're largely man-focused.

The Lakers do this all the time. They overload the side the ball's on, and play zone on the weak side.

A lot of people think our standard is to be first in the SEC, be first in the country, first in our red zone, and run defense. We really don't go by that motto. We go by, 'Be the best Alabama defense there's been.'

Typically, you'll see that zones work better in November than in February. As the season goes on, teams get better and better at attacking zones, and it becomes harder to become an effective zone defense as the season progresses. But early on, it can be can good at times.

These gun-free areas are actually - they're free-shooting zones for people because they know that there won't be anybody there that can stop them.

I don't love playing zone all the time, because it does have an effect on your offense.

Balls and strikes are the basic tenet to everything in baseball. From the perspective of hitting, pitching, offense and defense, it's all about the strike zone and how the battle is waged there between the pitcher and hitter.

You can do a no-fly zone without ground forces.

I think it is rather heroic to go into a war zone where everyone is trying to kill you, and you have no way of shooting back.

Understanding where to be in your own zone really takes some time and development to learn.

The shoot-and-chase approach had become big in hockey. Teams would come up to the blue line and shoot the puck around our boards deep in our zone, then swarm in after it forechecking, trying to regain possession.

It's really hard to go on a 10-, 12-play drive against a really good defense and put the ball in the end zone.

Against our zone, even really good offensive teams take longer than usual to get into their patterns, maybe 30 seconds. So we're locked into playing defense for that long... it's hard to run on offense after you've been hunkering down on D for that long.

We now know that gun-free zones, though well intentioned, do not prevent attacks.

Hostile states' use of proxies in war zones to inflict damage on U.S. interests and troops is a constant, longstanding concern.

Being solid in your own zone, being a good faceoff guy, those are things that are all important as you go deep in the playoffs.

I'm a zone guy. I'm a man guy.

If a cause be good, the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so much as an injudicious defense of it by its friends.