Quotes About Defense

I like playmakers, man, if it's a playmaker on defense or offense, just a guy who is going to put up some points, a guy who's going to be able to change the game.

A lot of guys are offensive minded, which is good at some points and times but bad at others - at lots of others. I wish I could say I want everybody to play defense as hard as I do. It's not a reality.

Whenever I guard a guard, I don't want to reach too much, but I will poke at the ball once to get him thinking.

Nato is supposed to be here to protect the alliance... If Poland and other central European countries constitute the real flank of Nato, then it seems natural to me, a logical conclusion, that bases should be placed in those countries.

No one from abroad can dictate to us whether Poles are allowed to defend themselves against slandering.

No nation ought to keep a navy larger than is necessary to do police duty.

Every country in the world has its own security system and its own security forces, its own police and its own army.

It's expensive to police the world.

The president deserves someone who can block for his policies.

I am often critical of Israel's policies when in the country, but then feel defensive of them when overseas.

I have fiercely criticized both the Bush administration's counterterrorism policies and the Obama administration's - and fiercely defended both as well.

Further, a defensive policy involves the loss of the initiative, with all the consequent disadvantages to the defender.

Here, I am looking for a document issued by a public attorney. I don't find. He is accused by the political leaders of the coalition, by his enemies, who said that he is guilty. That he deserves to be killed.

There's something troubling about a condition in which one country alone, which has roughly 5 percent of the world's population, spends more than 50 percent of the world's defense budgets. There's something weird about it.

The NBA has never drafted a player for defense. At any position, even at center.

When you have an almost seven-foot wingspan and can guard multiple positions, you're going to get minutes.

When the Americans advance, we harass and retreat, fire from new positions and then retreat again. If the attacking force is too big, we call for support.

Obviously, I like guys that can defend other positions. Draymond Green is doing a great job with Golden State. Jimmy Butler brings it every night when I'm out there.

I'm going to be a guy who can defend a bunch of different positions.

I think the biggest thing in this league is how many positions can you guard and do you have a strength offensively that's applicable?

If we are quite defensive and we lose the ball, we just try to get back into our positions and try to defend. That's something you have to do from time to time.

I can play small ball because I can guard multiple positions because I can really move.

The U.S. does not want to live under the shadow of a North Korea that possesses long-range missiles capable of delivering nuclear payloads to American cities. At the same time, the U.S. has no appetite for a war that would prove costly by every measure.

When you master all defensive and offensive aspects of the game and always enjoy the majority of possession, you're sitting in pole position to win.