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Quotes About Defense

With me being able to guard multiple positions - and a lot of teams are switching things, like the pick-and-roll and off-ball screens - me being able to defend multiple positions would only help an organization.
~ Shai Gilgeous-Alexander
I think Barcelona and the Spanish national team have been good for soccer because there are a lot of teams that come up playing from the back: with the goalie, the defense, moving up a defender to midfield, playing attacking soccer. I think fans want to see that. They want to see beautiful soccer, a spectacle, and Barcelona does that.
~ Xavi
I had a vision of how basketball should be played. And the vision was the Knicks teams that won the championship in 1970 and 1973. I wanted a team that emphasized defense. I wanted a team that on offense had a system where players moved off the ball, and the ball moved.
~ Jerry Reinsdorf
When you play on bad defensive teams, you get labeled as a bad defender.
~ Paul Pierce
If we play defense the way we're supposed to and we play defense the way we do here in practice, we should have no problems against most of the teams in the league, and other teams, it'll be a great fight.
~ Karl-Anthony Towns
Teams that just play on one side of the floor are going to struggle against defenses that load up on that side.
~ Kelvin Sampson
Most teams - whether they like it or not against Manchester City - you're going to find yourself quite often penned in your own half.
~ Roy Hodgson
I hate whenever there's a social issue that comes up in golf and people in the mainstream media who hate golf and who've conjured up all these stereotypes of people who are in the sport, the way they tear it down... I resent it, and I'll defend golf and people in golf until my dying day.
~ Jim Nantz
The smell of onion is the most effective thing for relieving stinging eyes irritated by tear gas.
~ Sayed Kashua
I think I used comedy as a mechanism: if I could make the other kids laugh, I wouldn't get beaten up or teased as much.
~ Paul Rudd
Lying is not only a defense mechanism; it's also a coping mechanism and a survival technique.
~ Monica Raymund
Centre-backs with good technique can move the ball forward, even when under pressure.
~ Thiago Silva
Forget the technique. Hit the guy across from you. Don't let somebody come in your space.
~ Karl Malone
Most of the computer compromises that we hear about use a technique called spear phishing, which allows an attacker access to a key person's workstation. It's extremely difficult to defend against.
~ Kevin Mitnick
At Ajax, I got an education in how to be confident on the ball, my technique, and then, at Atletico, I learned how to defend. It was about the details, the ruthlessness; be clinical in front of your own goal, win every duel, be clever. I learned so much and, defensively, I grew there so much.
~ Toby Alderweireld
Be tough. As a big guy, it's what your teammates expect from you, to be strong. Set good screens offensively and box out at the other end. It's a simple technique. I learned it when I was little.
~ Zaza Pachulia
Boeing, LockMart, and hundreds of other companies, large and small, work in the space business, and they also create new techniques and technology; but they'd be nowhere if NASA and the Department of Defense hadn't shown the way by funding the first big rockets and satellites.
~ Homer Hickam
As a matter of historical analysis, the relationship between secrecy and privacy can be stated in an axiom: the defense of privacy follows, and never precedes, the emergence of new technologies for the exposure of secrets.
~ Jill Lepore
The whole information and communication technologies (ICT) infrastructure must be regarded as an 'ecosystem' in which everything is interconnected. It functions as a whole; it must be defended as a whole.
~ Toomas Hendrik Ilves
With technology tracking us everywhere we go, 'cosplay' might become our best defense against surveillance.
~ Annalee Newitz
Our legacy platforms have served us well for decades, but we're running out of upgrades that will keep us ahead. Technology is changing too fast, and our enemies are too adaptable.
~ Mark Esper
If you live among dogs, keep a stick. After all, this is what a hound has teeth for-to bite when he feels like it!
~ Nikita Khrushchev
Tehran already has the largest inventory of ballistic missiles in the Middle East.
~ Michael T. Flynn
I tell my students, if you ever become comfortable with your role as criminal defense lawyer, it's time to quit. It should be a constant source of discomfort, because you're dealing with incredible moral ambiguity, and you've been cast into a role which is not enviable.
~ Alan Dershowitz