Quotes on Defense

The extra pass and the extra effort on defense always get the job done.

Author: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I think we match up with anybody because our pitching. In a short series you run your big three out there or four out there. That generally is what wins a series - pitching and defense. If we can catch the ball and not give away any runs like we do sometimes.

Author: Dusty Baker

I noticed that this defense attorney is a very, very intelligent man, and he's very cool and he's very knowledgeable, and I think that personally I'd like to have an attorney like him.

Author: Tommy Bond

You have to play defense, that's how you win.

Author: Peter Bondra

Right is its own defense.

Author: Bertolt Brecht

There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights.

Author: Smedley Butler

The nation's obligation to her defenders is as old as that defense itself.

Author: Steve Buyer

I get a kick out of watching a team defense me. A player moves two steps in one direction and I hit it two steps the other way. It goes right by his glove and I laugh.

Author: Rod Carew

The Department of Defense took 40 years to get where it got.

Author: Michael Chertoff

The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.

Author: Winston Churchill

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

Author: Irvin Cobb

If it doen't make sense, you should find for the defense.

Author: Johnnie Cochran

Keep a journal, and learn how to see how you as an individuals sees information so you can learn your own sign language. Meditate and practice psychic self defense and surrounding yourself with prayer.

Author: John Edward

The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.

Author: Dwight Eisenhower

It's always great when a defense is able to create turnovers and score. That's something we missed last year. We'd get some turnovers, but we never scored points.

Author: Nick Ferguson

It's pitching, hitting and defense that wins. Any two can win. All three make you unbeatable.

Author: Joe Garagiola

It is impossible to have a public trial if you can't guarantee the safety of witnesses, judges or defense counsel.

Author: Richard Goldstone

As a scientist in the field of biological warfare defense, I have never had any reservations whatsoever about helping the anthrax investigation in any way that I could.

Author: Steven Hatfill

Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?

Author: Patrick Henry

If we can't find cuts in the defense budget, we're not looking carefully enough.

Author: Jon Huntsman, Jr.

There is nothing so skillful in its own defense as imperious pride.

Author: Helen Jackson

In defense of our persons and properties under actual violation, we took up arms. When that violence shall be removed, when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, hostilities shall cease on our part also.

Author: Thomas Jefferson

That's how you win - pitching and defense.

Author: Derek Jeter

Today, Jewish defense is an accepted thing.

Author: Meir Kahane

It is immoral from almost any point of view to refuse to defend yourself and others from very grave and terrible threats, even as there are limits to the means that can be used in such defense.

Author: Herman Kahn

Only those who are ideologically opposed to military programs think of the defense budget as the first and best place to get resources for social welfare needs.

Author: Herman Kahn

Adequate defense has been the catchword of every militarist for centuries.

Author: Frank Kellogg

The professional study of economics has become ideological brainwashing. It is a defense of the excesses of the capitalist system.

Author: David Korten

All defense secretaries in wartime have, needless to say, made misjudgments.

Author: Bill Kristol

These soldiers deserve a better defense secretary than the one we have.

Author: Bill Kristol

They scored 26 points in three quarters. That's solid defense.

Author: Bill Laimbeer

What postmodernism gives us instead is a multicultural defense for male violence - a defense for it wherever it is, which in effect is a pretty universal defense.

Author: Catharine MacKinnon

The jury could get the case as early as next week, but the defense says they just want to introduce one last-minute load of crap.

Author: Bill Maher

I always root for the defense.

Author: Wellington Mara

There is no defense against a perfect pass. I can throw the perfect pass.

Author: Dan Marino

In my own defense, I wrote a one-man show, and that to me was more where I fit.

Author: Christopher Meloni

That is why it is so important not only to have excellent treatment but also to try to get back the immune defense, because there you have a natural defense that takes place everywhere.

Author: Luc Montagnier

We've been playing ugly. Without all of our bodies, we've been kicking it all over the shop, but fortunately we've been able to make the big buckets and rely on our defense for once.

Author: Steve Nash

In fact, in 2002, the Secretary of Defense authorized such support on a reimbursable basis to organizations formerly components of the Department of Justice and Department of the Treasury and currently components of the Department of Homeland Security.

Author: Solomon Ortiz

But as far as I'm concerned, I can still play defense.

Author: Rafael Palmeiro

I still feel like I can play defense at first base at a very high level.

Author: Rafael Palmeiro

Every state has not only the right but the duty to make adequate provision for its own defense in the way it thinks best, providing it does not do so at the expense of any other state.

Author: Lester Pearson

I was learning, as I did in the Ministry of Defense. I never knew, but I always learned.

Author: Shimon Peres

I probably visualize myself, the shots I'm going to get in the game, how I'm going to play defense, what we have to do to stop the other team's best player, what it's going to take out of me, the whole aspect of the game.

Author: Paul Pierce

Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute.

Author: Charles Pinckney

I consider myself a moderate Republican. I have very, very moderate social views, and I'm pretty strong on, on defense matters.

Author: Colin Powell

Bobby Knight told me this: 'There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.' In other words a good offense wins.

Author: Dan Quayle

I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?

Author: Robert Redford

Each and every Notary Public plays a crucial role in combating identity theft. They serve as our front line of defense and the public is safer because of the job they do.

Author: Ken Salazar

As far as missile defense is concerned, a very thorough consultation process is underway.

Author: Gerhard Schroder

However, the Department of Defense treats these detainees in accord with the Geneva Convention, even though that is not required because of the inhumane methods used by these killers.

Author: Bill Shuster

Surely the Department of Defense can and needs to do a better job of training new and existing first responders to respond to sexual assaults occurring in the military.

Author: Louise Slaughter

Defense is superior to opulence.

Author: Adam Smith

The Defense Department's plan to ban newspaper reporters from pool coverage of military operations is incredible. It reveals the administration to be out of touch with journalism, reality and the First Amendment.

Author: Arthur Sulzberger

If we don't start playing better on defense, it's going to be hard. We can't just sit there and win shootouts.

Author: William Thomas

Hence that general is skilful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skilful in defense whose opponent does not know what to attack.

Author: Sun Tzu

I think all of you know there is no adequate defense against massive nuclear attack.

Author: George Wald

And, you see, we are living in a world in which all wars are wars of defense.

Author: George Wald

So-called defense now absorbs sixty per cent of the national budget, and about twelve per cent of the Gross National Product.

Author: George Wald

The defense of our rights and our dignity, as well as efforts never to let ourselves to be overcome by the feeling of hatred - this is the road we have chosen.

Author: Lech Walesa

Wherever they have been arraigned, a plain charge has been exhibited against them. They have had an impartial trial and have been permitted to make their defense.

Author: Robert Walpole

New Yorkers should know that no one in the Administration, at the Department of Defense, or at the Selective Service System is advocating the reinstatement of the mandatory draft in any form.

Author: Jim Walsh

Big league defense is going to get outs most times.

Author: Barry Zito

Roses may be beautiful, but they still have thorns to defend themselves

Author: Samantha Smith