Quotes About Defense

My role is to be a roller, offensive rebounder, set the screens and roll hard and play defense.

When the Broncos or the Steelers are winning everybody wants defense. When the Rams and Saints are scoring 50 points a game, it seems everybody is looking for a young offensive mind.

I don't know where all this stuff comes from. This guy is an offensive guru. This guy is a defensive guru.' I don't even understand that. To me, you're a basketball coach.

But when an offensive sputters and looks out of synch, you can bet one of the defensive linemen is responsible.

I don't want to hide. I don't want to be focused just on defending, because I also have to be offensive and create opportunities for us.

I'm trying to focus on every play and not to worry about the offensive end.

Just try to make an impact on the game somehow whether it is on the defensive or offensive end. I think that has always been something that I have hung my hat on especially offensively. If it is not the night, then go make a play defensively and get after, dive for loose balls, create a charge, make an impact that way.

I still have a lot of confidence in my offensive game. I try to get guys involved and get in the lane, but defense is my backbone.

If you don't have a defense this league don't exist. So I feel like defensive players do need to kind of stand their ground to kind of show that we are just as important. You see all the offensive guys getting paid and we are just as important.

On the offensive end you can work yourself into a rhythm, but on the defensive end you have to be aware of everything. That's not measured by shots made or missed, it's measured by heart and determination to get out and play somebody. That's how you win on defense.

Everybody wants to go out and play hard for a guy where they know if they give their all on the defensive end, they're going to get rewarded on the offensive end.

I was an intelligence officer for what was then 8th Air Force, B-52 Air Force.

As a member of the House Armed Services Committee and a retired Flag Officer, I understand how critical it is to keep the military ready to fight.

Every one of our congressional offices, every day, is under attack.

When I moved to Cleveland, defense research was laying the foundations for the Internet. The Apollo program was just about to put a man on the moon - and it was Neil Armstrong, from right here in Ohio. The future felt limitless. But today, our government is broken.

As militias go, the Ohio Defense Force is on the moderate side.

Okay, so 'clap back' is when you might be in a confrontation with someone and they're coming at you negatively, but you put them in their place but without being too nasty, so you just clap back a little bit.

I hope the families of those who perished on the U.S.S. Oklahoma will find comfort and peace in knowing their loved ones' service in defense of our Nation helped in the ultimate fight to protect our liberty.

At one time, we were asked to play your own man; you're responsible for your own man. And, if you were good enough and kind of a ball hawk, you helped everyone else. Now it's really much more of a team concept defensively than it was when we played.

I always wanted to play both ends of the floor. I never wanted to be one-dimensional.

I developed my game a lot and learned how to score off the dribble. I learned how to play team defense and one-on-one defense.

I know that guys can't guard me one-on-one.

I always felt like I'm a good one-on-one defensive player.

It's easy to defend, in my opinion, when you play one-on-one.