Quotes About Defense

If diplomacy has any chance to work, it must be coupled with a credible military threat.

I would say national security is work in progress.

I work hard on my defense. It's something I take pride in, but it's nothing that I want to brag about. It's part of my game.

When you allow stolen bases, that changes the game.

I sleep on my stomach with my head under a bunch of pillows so if someone wants to come in and try to kill me they can't tell if I'm there or not, so they'll just leave.

She bit my bodyguard. She bit him in the stomach.

Nothing can stop the attack of aircraft except other aircraft.

Harry Kane is a very complicated player to stop.

If we would have had the 262 at our disposal - even with all the delays - if we could have had in '44, ah, let's say three hundred operational, that day we could have stopped the American daytime bombing offensive, that's for sure.

Stopping bad things is a significant public service.

Bringing an asteroid back to Earth? What's that have to do with space exploration? If we were moving outward from there, and an asteroid is a good stopping point, then fine. But now it's turned into a whole planetary defense exercise at the cost of our outward exploration.

Cyberespionage and cyberattack is exploding from our adversaries inside our country. We don't seem capable of stopping it.

When I go out there, I try to do everything I can to win. That doesn't mean I have to score more than the other team; it may mean stopping the other team.

More than stopping the counter-attack when it happens you want to prevent it from starting.

All the coaches preach about defense. Every day they talk about defense, they talk about how important it is to get stops in order to win basketball games.

When it comes to playoff time, the game slows down, the offense slows down and you've got to be able to get stops.

If you want to win in a tough place, you're going to have to make tough plays, you're going to have to get stops.

When you have the confidence that you can go four, five, six possessions where you're just squeezing the other team's offense, getting stops, and then with our ability to run the floor, with LeBron James being the quarterback of that action and being in attack mode, we have a strong belief in what we can accomplish as a group.

I want to be that guy who stops players.

Offence doesn't concern me. It's easier for people to get layups than it is to get stops on defence or a block.

The most deceptive course in football is straight at the goalposts.

Really, of all the important mission responsibilities assigned to United States Strategic Command by the president, none is more important than our responsibility to deter a strategic attack on the United States and our allies and partners.

The biggest challenge is clearly China, in the years 2035 and beyond. I mean, the size of the country, its economy, and everything - they're - it is a big strategic competitor for the entire Department of Defense and country.

As someone who prepared our forces to deal with the multiplicity of operational and strategic challenges our country faces, I am confident about Israel's capability to defend itself.