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Quotes About Defense

Americans and other Westerners who want their families to enjoy the blessings of life in a free society should understand that the life we've led since 1945 in the Western world is very rare in human history. Our children are unlikely to enjoy anything so placid, and may well spend their adult years in an ugly and savage world unless we decide that who and what we are is worth defending.
~ Mark Steyn
Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its only sure defense.
~ Mark Twain
Almost any man worthy of his salt would fight to defend his home, but no one ever heard of a man going to war for his boarding house
~ Mark Twain
All religions issue bibles against him, and say most injurious things about him, but we never hear his side.
~ Mark Twain
One can describe them as a boa: when it feels threatened, it runs to somewhere else.
~ Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
Humor was also a defense mechanism from getting picked on at school. If I could be funny maybe people wouldn't bother me.
~ Unknown
I think that the Iraqi ground defenses shot down dozens of missiles. We are in the process of counting all these missiles quickly
~ Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
It's complicated, " I said in defense, hands going up to show surrender."Talk slowly, " Jenna retorted derisively."Okay, I deserved that, " I admitted.
~ Laura Kreitzer, Keepers
I really hate it when people want to kill me. It makes me think they don't want to be friends. - Raven from Blood of Prey
~ Unknown
I think guns are just a symbolic substitute for male genitalia, and I'm okay in that respect." "Fine. If they get in the house, you can whack them with your genitals.
~ Unknown
Indignation is often the best defense.
~ Unknown
Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy.
~ Alfred Adler
If you're a goalkeeper, it doesn't matter what you save the ball with; if you keep it out, it's not a goal.
~ Mark Lawrenson
What makes this game so delightful is that when both teams get the ball they are attacking their opponents goal.
~ Jimmy Hill
When I'm shouting at the defence, subtitles come up in front of the goal.
~ Unknown
The immune systems goal is to protect the body against invaders either from without, such as microbes, or from within, such as cancers and different types of neoplastic transformation.
~ Anthony S. Fauci
Everyone plays the ball over the top and, at the moment, we only concede goals from crosses or balls over the top. I feel we will adapt to that.
~ Arsene Wenger
As we say in Portugal, they brought the bus and they left the bus in front of the goal.
~ Jose Mourinho
Both sides have scored a couple of goals, and both sides have conceded a couple of goals.
~ Unknown
If you never concede a goal, you're going to win more games than you lose.
~ Bobby Moore
The team that's on defense first (in overtime) has the advantage because they know whether they need a touchdown a field goal or just a score.
~ Lou Holtz
He just got his body between himself and the goal.
~ Unknown
With him in defense, we could play Arthur Askey in goal. (after signing Ron Yeats)
~ Bill Shankly
In many ways, my job in soccer was like my job in basketball now. I had to protect the goal. That was the name of the game, not letting the other team score.
~ Hakeem Olajuwon