That's how I grew up. Just play defense - and make a basket.
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.
The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders.
That's how you win - pitching and defense.
When we had a great defense at Tampa Bay, we always measured our defenses against the best quarterbacks.
For as long as this nation has known war, we have embraced the heroes it has produced. Americans have rightfully noted the honor and nobility of courage under hostile fire and thanked those who perished in their defense.
One of the people that wrote a forward to my book is Gerry Spence, whom I admire. Gerry is a friend of mine, and Gerry's perhaps the leading criminal defense attorney in the country.
Rather than squander the surplus on tax breaks for the rich, we should add a prescription drug benefit to the Medicare program, shore up Social Security, fortify our defense, provide a quality public education and offer economic assistance to rural areas.
Intelligence is our first line of defense against terrorism, and we must improve the collection capabilities and analysis of intelligence to protect the security of the United States and its allies.
I opposed the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996. It should be repealed and I will vote for its repeal on the Senate floor. I will also oppose any proposal to amend the U.S. Constitution to ban gays and lesbians from marrying.
When France resolved, along with England, to lend assistance in the legitimate defense of Poland, the realization burst on us that a conflict of awesome proportions was inevitable.
My brothers bullied me, so I cried a lot as a kid. It was the only defense I had. Telling them to stop wouldn't work. The crying would bring my dad. Dad was my cavalry.
It's increasingly clear that governments, major corporations, banks, universities and other such bodies view the defense of their secrets as a desperate matter of institutional survival, so much so that the state has gone to extraordinary lengths to punish and/or threaten to punish anyone who so much as tiptoes across the informational line.
You have to play defense, that's how you win.
The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.
In '82 Brazil showed that you can't win the World Cup without a solid defense.
When it comes to setting national priorities, determining threats, defining challenges, and fashioning and implementing foreign and defense policies, the United States and Europe have parted ways.
The defendant wants to hide the truth because he's generally guilty. The defense attorney's job is to make sure the jury does not arrive at that truth.
I was learning, as I did in the Ministry of Defense. I never knew, but I always learned.
My strength is my wrestling, but I don't focus on it as much. I try to focus on a lot of different things like knees, elbows, submissions, and submission defense - just a lot of different things.
I learned from Chuck Noll in Pittsburgh that speed and explosiveness on defense is the way to build a team. Both are difficult for your opponent to assimilate in practice and then in games it is even harder to match.
Our funding is based on our support of ideas like limited government, individual rights and a strong defense.
National defense is the sacred duty of the young and all other people.
Without comedy as a defense mechanism I wouldn't be able to survive.
A time is marked not so much by ideas that are argued about as by ideas that are taken for granted. The character of an era hangs upon what needs no defense.
More and more major businesses and industries are being run on software and delivered as online services - from movies to agriculture to national defense.
Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
The Department of Defense took 40 years to get where it got.
Being a dandy is a condition rather than a profession. It is a defense against suffering and a celebration of life.
No state, furthermore, unless it has aggressive military designs such as those which consumed Nazi leaders in the thirties, is likely to divert to defense any more of its resources and wealth and energy than seems necessary.
A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.
What I say is, national defense is the most important thing we do in Washington, but there's still waste in the military budget.
Make no mistake, in this campaign, I will offer the American ideals of economic freedom a clear and unapologetic defense.
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.
This idea of holding the Defense Department hostage to the tax debate makes me sick to my stomach. Knock it off.
I had learned many years ago in private business never to take responsibility without adequate authority; and the new Secretary of Defense, as budgets were sharply cut, quickly found that out.
