Quotes About Defense

I'm really good with fighting with my feet.

It's not all about the figures. It's about how you play for the team, how you help your colleagues, how you work defensively.

My worry is how to protect the Filipino.

I think everybody works from a defensive position, for the most part, in the film industry.

Firearms manufacturers usually find themselves playing defense.

Weve got a police system who protect us, weve got firemen who put out fires. Weve got defence, man. Thats what tax is for.

I had medevacked so many women off the battlefield that I knew that it was a misnomer to say that women weren't in combat. I had friends that were Marines that were taken to fight the enemy. They weren't just firing in defense of their position.

If somebody does something wrong to someone around me, I can be firm. But that's always to protect someone to whom wrong is being done to.

If we don't have the ability to keep and bear arms, then who knows when they are going to decide they want to take the First Amendment away from us, or one of the other amendments.

My first job is to defend, but I know I have the quality to score.

Tulo was the first one to tell me I needed to take pride in my defense. And he was right. You've got to take pride in it and want to be really good at it.

Here you get to play one on one more, individual basketball. I think that fits me better than in Europe. You have harder, different double teams and everybody helps, but in the NBA they let you play one on one, so I think that will fit me better.

I want to see overwhelming force repel anybody who is trying to get into the White House.

Emmitt Till had walked into a cultural narrative in which his role was already tragically written. It was a narrative designed to preserve white supremacy. So it gave power - the right to kill - to any white claiming to defend the honor of white women.

Those who 'abjure' violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their behalf.

Whoever I'm playing against, I go in and try to stop their best scorer and try to get myself going on the offensive end.

The secretary of defense makes recommendations, sometimes will make strong recommendations to the president of the United States. But the president, whoever it is at that time, decides, makes the call on whether or not to take that recommendation.

As a competitor, you always want to go against the best, so whoever guards me, I'm hoping it's the best defender from the other team.

Whoever believes that a symbolic tank parade on the alliance's eastern border will bring security is mistaken.

I get the job of guarding the 'tough guy' every night so I just try to bring the same energy every night with whoever it is that I'm facing.

I believe that wholeheartedly - that we have to maintain a strong national defense.

Not addicted to gluttony or drunkenness, this people who incur no expense in food or dress, and whose minds are always bent upon the defence of their country, and on the means of plunder, are wholly employed in the care of their horses and furniture.

I choose to believe that we are addicted to the rush of being offended, the idea of it, rather than believing we have become a nation of emasculated children whose only defense against an abyss of emotional agony is a trigger warning.

We must not condemn to frustration those whose job it is to protect us by failing to provide them with the necessary resources to meet the threats they face.