Quotes About Good Defense

#1. I think that comedy is a good defense for a child. Because you know childhood is a nightmare as it is. And so why not use comedy and being funny as a defense to get through your life as opposed to drugs, alcohol and good looks? Because those things are dangerous when your young.

Joy Behar

#2. Good mothers are underrated, just like good defense.

Andy Van Slyke

#3. Try to relax. Sometimes the best offense is a good defense.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#4. Good basketball always starts with good defense!

Bobby Knight

#5. It's a game of making great pitches at the right time, being opportunistic by getting a run at the right time and playing good defense.

Mike Candrea

#6. I believe the war on terror is the vital discussion of this decade and of our generation, probably. To win the war on terror, you need a good offense and a good defense. On defense, I regret to say, basically, this administration has not come close to doing what is necessary.

Chuck Schumer

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

Dan Quayle

#8. Because even one voice in a wilderness of ignorance is a voice that is heard by someone. Because every woman and man, no matter their color or their religion, is entitled to a good defense.

Kristen Ashley

#9. Part of the fruit of the Spirit is self-control. Once you get married, however, a good defense is frequency and freedom.

Mark Driscoll

#10. think you'll find that when you let Him, God is a good defense attorney.

Chris Fabry

#11. The best offense is a good defense, but a bad defense is offensive.

Gene Wolfe

#12. Winning is more related to good defense than good offense

Jack Ramsay

#13. Defense wins championships. A good offense is beat by a good defense, always.

Eric Bolling

#14. How often, being moved under a false cause, if the person offending makes a good defense and presents us with a just excuse, are we angry against truth and innocence itself?

Michel De Montaigne

#15. I wasn't a bad basketball player, but I was far from the world's greatest. Good defense, no offense - that was me.

Chuck Connors

#16. I think there's a lot of different things that factor into playing good defense, and you just can't say, "All right, if we just hold on to the ball long enough, we're going to play good defense."

Chip Kelly

#17. My continued incarceration has served some good purposes. My defense committee has served as a training ground for other organizers in their defense of freedom and justice.

Leonard Peltier

#18. Every good thing great and small needs defense

John Muir

#19. Your brand is your personal lawyer ... It defends and speaks for you even in your absence. Keep calm and maintain a good brand!

Israelmore Ayivor

#20. You had a good dinner of properly fried food, and if you want to live long enough to have another one, you've got to weaponize properly.

Dean Koontz

#21. We would take a little bit of money out of a huge increase in ballistic missile defense and put it in a place where it will do a lot of good, namely, in targeted pay increases to our enlisted personnel, particularly our NCOs and our junior warrant officers.

John Spratt

#22. If I was mentoring a young fighter, I'd tell him to spend more time on boxing. That doesn't mean I would ignore kickboxing - you still need to learn the defenses - but in stand-up, it's hard to beat good, solid boxing.

Chael Sonnen

#23. The best defense against being hurt is to feel good about yourself and the way a person responds to you says more about them, than about you.

Brenda Shoshanna

#24. I think a shotgun or a handgun that has a six-round clip is a very good, perfectly adequate weapon for self-defense, in the home. You simply can't create that kind of mayhem, if you have to reload.

John Landgraf

#25. A good football team plays offense and defense. You have to be aggressive and disrupt.

Vince Flynn

#26. Fighting corruption is not just good governance. It's self-defense. It's patriotism.

Joe Biden

#27. Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense and its conscious that he gains protection while he gives it.

Andrew Jackson

#28. I don't think the press has done a very good job dealing with government spending.The Defense Department with the $9,500 toilet seat, that's not the problem anymore. Medicare and Medicaid and Social Security are the problem. That's us. That's our generation. There the press never says a word.

Dave Barry

#29. I think the more aggressive I am on defense helps me to get easier buckets and get in a good grove.

Baron Davis

#30. If you let your hitting bother your defense, you are not going to be very good.

Dan Uggla

#31. Bringing an asteroid back to Earth? What's that have to do with space exploration? If we were moving outward from there, and an asteroid is a good stopping point, then fine. But now it's turned into a whole planetary defense exercise at the cost of our outward exploration.

Buzz Aldrin

#32. When you're in that zone there's nothing really the defense can do ... It doesn't matter who's sticking you because everything looks good.

Gilbert Arenas

#33. There are times when you have to defend yourself or someone else against relentless evil. And some of those times the only defense that has any hope of succeeding is a one-time use of brutal, devastating force. At such times good people act brutally.

Orson Scott Card

#34. Do you remember, during the war, when Porky worked in a defense plant? He and Bugs Bunny. That was a good one too.

Thomas Pynchon

#35. I had it then. Soda fought for fun, Steve for hatred, Darry for pride, and Two-Bit for conformity. Why do I fight? I thought, and couldn't think of any real good reason. There isn't any real good reason for fighting except self-defense.

S.E. Hinton

#36. Snowden was extremely good at digital self-defense. When he was employed by the C.I.A. and N.S.A., one of his jobs was to teach U.S. national security officials and C.I.A. employees how to protect their data in high-threat digital environments.

Luke Harding

#37. You have to give it to the Packers. They are a good team. They have a great offense and a great defense.

Rob Gronkowski

#38. The only defense against evil, violent people is good people who are more skilled at violence.

Rory Miller

#39. A good coach is interested in how tough you are, how you react to adversity, how quickly you get back on defense.

Dick Devenzio

#40. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said this week there's a good chance we never get bin Laden. bin Laden! We couldn't even get O.J.!

Jay Leno

#41. As a backup, I intended to get a quart of defense spray. I wasn't much good with a gun, but I was bitchin' with an aerosol can.

Janet Evanovich

#42. He that is warm for truth, and fearless in its defense, performs one of the duties of a good man; he strenghtens his own conviction, and guards others from delusion; but steadiness of belief, and boldness of profession, are yet only part of the form of godliness.

Samuel Johnson

#43. You don't have to be a doormat to be good. Even good people are allowed self-defense.

Eliza Crewe

#44. In such a state, humility is the virtue of men, and their only defense; to walk humbly with God, never doubting, whatever befall, that His will is good, and that His law is right.

Paul Elmer More

#45. The best defense is a good offense.

Jack Dempsey

#46. Among top grandmasters the Dutch is a rare defense, which is good reason to play it! It has not been studied very deeply by many opponents, and theory, based on a small number of 'reliable' games, must be rather unreliable.

Bent Larsen

#47. Defense is all about helping. No one can guard a good dribbler, You have to walk kids through how to help and then how to help the helper

Bobby Knight

#48. Basketball also helps you learn to move your feet by playing defense and guarding guys, and that all carries over to playing football with staying square and having good footwork.

Calvin Pryor

#49. It would have been a great story if Brooks had went out there and scored 21 points, ... That would have been great theater. But the reality of that is very difficult, as we know, in this league for any QB when defense is playing good. And the Ravens played well.

Herman Edwards

#50. Isn't the best defense always a good attack?

Ovid

#51. But little Carlos's most important defense was not his good punch but rather the beginnings of a great education.

Gina Capaldi

#52. We have a simple rule for switching. Anytime there is movement over the top of a screen, there has to be an automatic switch. If a blind pick is set on one of our defensive players, there has to be a switch. To play good pressure defense, you have to use the switch.

Ralph Miller

#53. I cannot in good conscience vote in favor of tax cuts, irrespective of their size, or to which segment of the population they are targeted, ... Nor can I support any spending increases that are not related to improving our nation's defense from the obvious and serious threats facing us today.

John McCain

#54. Anxiety is good for nothing if we can't turn it into a defense.

Samuel Rush Meyrick

#55. When corporations get special handouts from the government, subsidies and tax breaks, it costs you. It means you have to pay more in taxes to make up for these hidden expenses, and government has less money for good schools and roads, Medicare and national defense and everything else you need.

Robert Reich

#56. When things go wrong or don't turn out the way you pictured them in your head, you just have to go with the best intentions defense. I have a lot of good intentions.

Blake Shelton

#57. It is not overwhelmingly difficult for a committed group of players with only average individual basketball skills to put together a very good team defense.

Del Harris

#58. Alexas the blessed ... was a good kid." Durzo laughed. Then his smile faded. "Broke my heart to kill him. But he needed killing by the end.

Brent Weeks

#59. Soothing assumptions about the good faith and shared interests of antagonists are natural to democracy, as is the desire to spend money on things other than defense. Getting a democracy to do what does not come naturally requires leadership.

George F. Will