Quotes About Defense

I think that's one of the great things about the Pittsburgh Steelers - we're not a big free-agent team. We build guys up through our system to have a better understanding of our defense.

I want significant parts of Nato infrastructure, important for the alliance, to be placed in the central Europe.

Every defense's game plan is to take me away.

Only the last two planes, I think, had any shot of being intercepted and taken down on 9/11.

A lot of these catchers don't understand that they are blocking the plate and they don't have the ball. You're not allowed to block the plate without the ball.

That's how I grew up. Just play defense - and make a basket.

Any time you play shortstop or center field, the majority of the baseballs are hit in the middle of the field.

I think it's very hard to find a big corner who can run and who also can play the ball very well.

India has never played politics with national security.

I wanted to be the best player, so I thought in order for me to be the best player, I had to guard the best player on the court.

I am the finest defensive player in the game.

I wasn't a bad basketball player, but I was far from the world's greatest. Good defense, no offense - that was me.

When we have the ball, we're all offensive players. When we lose the ball, we're all defensive players.

Playoffs, you know, defense is elevated even more.

When you're in the playoffs, you have to get easy baskets and you have to limit their easy baskets.

I think running the ball effectively is the key to winning games in the playoffs.

If you commit to the defensive end of the floor, you're going to have a chance to win every night. And if you're a great defensive team, you're going to go to the playoffs.

There are no plays run for your sake as a defender - you just have to want it.

A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is all in.

What law enforcement always does is over-charge, and no one can fight it, so the people will plead down and you're stuck within the system.

Please keep an open mind and let me have my day in court.

I think I'm a guy who loves to play defense. I have a great time in the outfield. I think it's fun robbing guys on hits - there are plenty of times you're gonna be robbed as a hitter.

I've prosecuted several financial crimes at the federal level and I've also defended plenty in my private practice.

Our adversaries no long fear us, and our enemies are plotting against us.