Defensive Back Quotes

#1. The positions I played in football, being a quarterback and a defensive back, you had to kind of have a little independent thinking.

Hale Irwin

#2. I like using one QB. If we have two that are relatively equal, then we can't afford to have one on the bench. They need to be on the field at running back, receiver or defensive back. I'm not going to waste an athlete on the sidelines.

Alan Chadwick

#3. Landry returned to school following the war and played fullback and defensive back for the Longhorn squads that won the 1948 Sugar Bowl and, his senior year, the 1949 Orange Bowl.

Jeff Pearlman

#4. It was fun, having speed and being able to jump. Especially playing football. I played wide receiver and defensive back.

Jacoby Ellsbury

#5. The American School of Paris is one of those strange places in foreign cities where expatriates huddle together in a defensive circle and try to pretend they're still back at home.
I saw it as a place for lost souls.

Amy Plum

#6. Do to me, O Allah, what is worthy of Thee; And not what is worthy of me.

Saadi

#7. I think that it definitely makes the transition easier being able to know linebacker and having also played on the defensive line. You can kind of know what they're expecting on the back end and what you are kind of expecting from them.

Justin Cole

#8. Making a bootable disk image and checking on your old machine

Daniel J. Levitin

#9. The U.K. and the U.S. could not have been built today without Africa's aid. It is all the resources that were taken from Africa, including human, that built these countries today! So when they try to give back, we shouldn't be on the defensive.

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

#10. Hervey (Weinstein) thank you for killing whoever you had to kill to get me up here today

Jennifer Lawrence

#11. Outside the sky is light with stars

Katherine Mansfield

#12. I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.

Alexander The Great

#13. I really have to be watching my back all the time; always be on the defensive? Trusting no one but myself was a cold cross to bear, but at that moment, I wore it.

Courtney Giardina

#14. Of course there are regrets. I shall regret always that I found my own authentic voice in politics. I was too conservative, too conventional. Too safe, too often. Too defensive. Too reactive. Later, too often on the back foot.

John Major

#15. Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#16. The Berlin Defence suited my strategy for the match. I had a defensive strategy - Actually, I had in my pocket some other sharper stuff to fall back on - but first I wanted to try the defensive strategy with Black and it worked so well.

Vladimir Kramnik

#17. There you go again, tangoing in tap shoes...

Donna Fasano

#18. 17 God sent his Son into the world not to judge the world, but to save the world through him. 18 "There is no judgment against anyone who believes in him.

Anonymous

#19. One of the turning points in the look of the Guardian is when we decided Logan Thackeray would be a Guardian as opposed to a Warrior. Logan's own protective nature and the fact that the humans have been knocked back into defensive positions informed a lot of what the Guardian became.

Jeff Grubb

#20. I love my fans! My job would not be what it is without them.

Marisa Miller

#21. Suddenly it felt as if there was a whole heck of a lot less oxygen in the room than there'd been only a moment before, which had to explain why she'd melted into him when she hadn't meant to. She tossed back her head to say something defensive, but the look on his face stopped her.

Jill Shalvis

#22. Every man knows that he will die: and nobody believes it. On that paradox stand not only a host of religions but the entity of a sane being.

John Myers Myers

#23. Authors hide their big thefts by putting small ones between quotation marks.

Paul Eldridge

#24. Camouflage with a defensive grace and bounce back with joy.

Angelica Hopes

#25. You can always look back on having a good defensive day, even if you didn't do anything offensively. You won the game and you contributed.

Jorge Posada

#26. Probably the most important aspect of individual defensive play is the 'close-out.' This approach to the ball should be made in a 'step-drag action' with advanced foot moving forward first and then the back foot in a boxer's type shuffling of the feet.

Tex Winter

#27. Here's my philosophy. Adopt it, and you'll make it out alive. Every man for himself. You watch your own ass. Your con goes orange? You fall back to defensive position. No heroics. And no stupidity. Got it?

Eve Silver

#28. My wife who is non-Jewish regrets it all the time that I can say these terrible things about fellow Jews and she can't.

Joseph Epstein

#29. Post 9/11, so much has changed in New York that it does not give you that homely feeling which it did before.

Mira Nair

#30. But if you parry individuals points - a negative and defensive enterprise - you never step back and actively imagine a world in which a different system of ideas could be true - a positive act.

Deborah Tannen

#31. (Antique clocks) need servicing just like your automobile or anything else. They're mechanical, and about every 10 years you should have them cleaned. That's the way they last forever.

William Baldwin