Quotes About Defense

It could be the best defender or the worst defender. I have to have the attitude that I don't think anyone is going to deter me from getting to the basket. Maybe help defense can come over and affect it, but not the first guy.

As a defender, how much ground I cover isn't up to me. I'm defending against a forward, so her movement determines my movement.

We must modernize our greatest deterrent and keep peace among our adversaries with our nuclear arsenal.

My position is that of detective, confessor, vaudevillian, advocate. And devil's advocate.

I think the defense is going to dictate how many shots you get.

I never had any desire to defend myself, and never did I seriously think about it.

All of the legal defense funds out there, they're looking for people out there with court of appeals experience, because court of appeals is where policy is made. And I know, I know this is on tape and I should never say that because we don't make law, I know. I know.

If you ask somebody who played basketball against me in the first grade and you watch a tape, it's been with me since I was a kid. I've always had this mentality to go out there and defend.

The Sicilian Defense album was never released and never will be if I have anything to do with it. I have not heard it since it was finished. I hope the tapes no longer exist.

The Patriot missile is a point defence missile. Point defence means that you put the missile at a location to defend a very specific target such as an airfield, a supply dump or a headquarters.

The Cruise missiles do not frighten anyone. We are catching them like fish in a river. I mean here that over the past two days, we managed to shoot down 196 missiles before they hit their target.

The U.S. has already suffered a devastating attack on September 11, 2001, and may again become a target.

In a military operation, the command and control elements are a legitimate target.

I'll take what I can get when I go high with a hook, but the side of the head makes a big target, especially if his hands are down.

For whatever the reasons may be, a lot of teams try to target me as a defender from a standpoint of assuming I'm not very great at it.

Since we have literally targeted our enemies, the Pentagon assumes that, sooner or later, rogues will take out our cities, presumably from spaceships.

ISIS targeting the U.S. military is like a sheep targeting a lion.

Gun control is not the answer. The best and most effective path forward, I believe, is one that safeguards our schools from becoming 'soft targets.'

Israel never targets civilians deliberately, period.

I got recruited to join a research team at SCL group which, at the time, was a British military contractor based in London. Most of its clients were various ministries of defense in NATO countries. And what we were looking at is how to use data online to identify people who would be likely targets of different extremist groups.

There's no bigger task than protecting the homeland of our country.

The Secretary of Defense is not a super General or Admiral. His task is to exercise civilian control over the Department for the Commander-in-Chief and the country.

The Israeli military plays more than a critical role in defending the citizens of the Jewish state. It also plays an important social, scientific and psychological role in preparing its young citizens for the challenging task of being Israelis in a difficult world.

We ask the military to be in a position that, if we ask them to do a task, they are absolutely able to do it for us.