Top 1200 Playing Defense Quotes & Sayings - Page 12

Coach K was fine with the way I played defense.

Knavery is the best defense against a knave.

I love playing guitar. I grew up with my dad playing. But acting is definitely the forefront, I guess I'd say, in terms of career and something that I really enjoy and feel lucky to be able to do.

Religion is a defense against the experience of God.

Any real virtual reality enthusiast can look back at VR science fiction. It's not about playing games... 'The Matrix,' 'Snow Crash,' all this fiction was not about sitting in a room playing video games. It's about being in a parallel digital world that exists alongside our own, communicating with other people, playing with other people.

Sometimes it works. Sometimes I feel like playing 'Hospital'. Sometimes I feel like playing 'Pablo Picasso'. I've been playing a lot lately. I do it as long as I feel like it.

People use irony as a defense mechanism.

What actor doesn't want to walk around a set and be called 'Mr. President?' Playing POTUS is a kind of rite of passage among American actors - our version of playing Hamlet.

Isn't the best defense always a good attack?

A government without the power of defense! It is a solecism.

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

You can do as many sprints as you want but there's nothing like playing in a 90-minute soccer game. There's no better way to gain your fitness, in my opinion, than playing in consistent games.

I am learning self-defense techniques.

The best defense against logic is ignorance.

I have a self-defense mind. I've had it all my life.

The Premier League is the toughest in the world probably, there's not going to be an easy game. It is what I've dreamt of, so when I step onto that pitch I'm just playing how I want to play, playing with freedom and that is what the manager wants.

Murder begins where self-defense ends.

I was the fat kid, so as a defense mechanism, I was the jokester.

I've been working on my defense and my inside game.

When I got to New York City when I was 18, I started playing in clubs in Brooklyn - I have good friends and devoted fans on the underground scene, but we were playing for each other at that point - and that was it.

Social awkwardness is not a sin, in defense of liberty.

Defense is something I take a lot of pride in.

On television I feel like a man playing piano in a brothel; every now and again he solaces himself by playing 'Abide with Me' in the hope of edifying both the clients and the inmates

My whole background is character acting: weird costumes, fat suits, playing men, playing animals - I've never played anyone with whom there's any overlapping Venn diagram.

I change guitars as they come and go. I have one I played for almost a decade, but I've put it away. It was the first McCarty. Now, I'm playing one I grabbed off the line. I've been playing it ever since.

National Defense A strong USA defense brought down the Soviet Union. It was Ronald Reagan - first in a speech at Notre Dame University in May 1981, then his 'Evil Empire' speech of March 1983 - who most eloquently declared communism's imminent demise. Reagan was right. And even Soviet officials attribute Ronald Reagan's rhetoric and foreign policy to bringing down that 'evil empire.' By Christmas Day, 1990, the Soviet Union ceased to exist. Liberals wished it were other things.

Love, like truth, is the unassailable defense.

I started my career, actually, maybe the first 10, 11 years, playing the bad boyfriend with the gun. And I got ill with that and moved on, for some reason, to playing cops all the time.

The main problem is to free your mind when you play. I find that in my own playing, whenever I feel any kind of tension, I'm restricted to playing the most fundamental kinds of things.

Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.

This might sound masochistic or narcissistic‚ I don't know‚ but when I'm not playing the game‚ the validations I feel about life are always through the hardships. I relate more to sadness‚ in a lot of ways‚ when I'm not playing.

The best personal defense is an explosive counterattack.

Self-defense is Nature's eldest law.

Michigan has a lot at stake in the defense industry, and the defense industry has a lot at stake in Michigan.

Lying is an elementary means of self-defense.

Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity.

I think of customer service as an offense and not a defense

The best defense of democracy is an informed electorate.

A loving and fierce defense of economics as a science.

It is vain to look for a defense against lightning.

I trust my ability to play in any defense.

One omen is best, to fight in defense of one's country.

The best defense against partisanship is expertise.

This might sound masochistic or narcissistic, I don't know, but when I'm not playing the game, the validations I feel about life are always through the hardships. I relate more to sadness, in a lot of ways, when I'm not playing.

I'd like to play with a period piece. Playing a girl next door in 2010 is so different from playing one in 1950, the way you talk, walk, dress, relationships. It's really fun studying all that.

I knew, despite playing in the NBA, that I would have to prepare for another career or vocation for when my playing days were over, in order to maintain relevancy. I didn't want to become known for what I used to do.

Fashion has always been my defense mechanism.

I try to play defense and be an unselfish teammate.

Defense is not like other discretionary spending.

Playing in my early bands, working as a studio musician, producing and going to art school was, in retrospect, my apprenticeship. I was learning and creating a solid foundation of ideas, but I wasn't really playing music.

There has never been a great 'silent' defense

I feel like I can adapt to any defense.

I take what the defense gives me, and I roll with it.

A Nation's best defense is an educated citizenry

The defense should be expecting a run or a pass here.

My only defense is the acquisition of vocabulary.

I wasn't playing at Arsenal, and I was frustrated. I was doing everything I could do, looking after myself, scoring, and playing in the Europa League then when the cup came, but it wasn't enough for me, and I wanted more.

The National defense is one of the cardinal duties of a statesman.

When we are organised on the pitch, it is easier to play in defense.

You can see that just with the passing, you can destroy the defense.