Top 1200 Playing Defense Quotes & Sayings - Page 17
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Last updated on April 21, 2025.
Not only someone with epaulets can be defense minister. We're in a democratic country.
Nothing true can be said about God from a posture of defense.
I do remember one of the first great experiences of going to Europe was playing in Rome hearing the people sing our music so loud. It was louder than the music we were playing.
I try to take a lot of pride in what I can do in terms of knowing the defense.
The Seahawks defense has to go balls deep to win this game.
For me, there's nothing that beats playing. When I'm not playing, I'll watch games on the television, watch stuff on You-Tube, everything. I just live for football, love watching great players.
Defense is a lot more natural to me than offense.
I'm not the type who spends his free time in training camp playing with his Playstation or playing cards on trips. The other players thought it was odd: There he is, reading again.
[A] high minded gallantry in defense of the foundations of Christian culture.
It's just always been a knack for me to play defense.
I played defense, so I don't like when guys celebrate with dances and stuff.
Playing athletics, playing a lot of different sports, going to drama school... I was one of those kids who wanted to do everything, so I ended up being pretty average at everything.
We need leaders who will stand unapologetically in defense of marriage.
Society is an artificial construction, a defense against nature's power.
Don't you know that I laugh because it is my last defense against tears?
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance and a willingness to act in its defense.
My first line of defense against reality is called sleep.
I see the task of architecture as the defense of the authenticity of human experience
In Defense of the World Order . . . U.S. soldiers would have to kill and die.
You know why I quit playing ballads? Cause I love playing ballads.
There is no excuse for waste, fraud, and abuse in the Defense Department budget.
I think when you play a role, you always have to be a defense attorney for that character.
I've never mastered the guitar. Either I was playing it, or it was playing me; it depends how you look at it. As a kid, the only things I had to do was go to school, do my homework, and play guitar.
There's such a cynicism about the phrase 'I laughed all the way to the bank.' It's as though money is what you're doing, rather than playing music. If you're playing a money game, why not get into banking?
Hell be lucky to last five or six years on those knees. What it might have to come down to is playing less on hard surfaces and playing more on forgiving surfaces.
Playing character roles gives me the freedom to try out different roles, including negative ones or elderly ones. When one is playing the lead role, clearly there are limitations and responsibilities.
War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.
In the defense of civil liberties there can be no exceptions, or there will soon be many.
I loved playing for Coach Ambrose, and I definitely love playing for Coach Wright.
A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense.
I've still never gotten behind the defense and been caught.
Any defense of common sense must allow that it is revisable.
Of all government expenditures, defense spending is the... most stimulative to the economy.
These are dangerous days we live in and you, the artists, are our last defense.
A Jedi uses the Force for knowledge and defense, never for attack.
Being dead is the most airtight defense of one's own aesthetic.
You got to know what the defense looks for and use that against them.
My greatest defense was my offense. Very few guys did that.
Sometimes it happens, especially if you're a shooter. They say that you can't play great defense.
As militias go, the Ohio Defense Force is on the moderate side.
Every good thing great and small needs defense
Every defense's game plan is to take me away.
Defense involves three things: courage, energy, intelligence.
Obviously, Iron Maiden is on a way bigger scale to British Lion, but as a musician playing live, it's just the adrenaline rush of playing in front of an audience that gives you that rush.
For me, there's nothing that beats playing. When I'm not playing, I'll watch games on the television, watch stuff on You Tube, everything. I just live for football, love watching great players.
There's an audience that is paid to laugh at my jokes. I'm playing a character while I'm doing stand-up. Real stand-ups, man, they're playing themselves. I'd be far too terrified.
There is no substantive, rational defense; I mean, the other side doesn't have a case.
Self-defense is the clearest of all laws; and for this reason - the lawyers didn't make it.
I will not be a punching bag as part of anyone's defense strategy.
The art of not playing in tempo--one has to learn it. And the art of not playing what is written on the printed paper.
Marvin Williams is solid, and he can shoot, and he'll definitely stretch the defense.
You want to be on the offense and make the defense react. I feel like that.
Randy lay there like a slug. It was his only defense.
The king of branding, Mr. Trump performs best when he is on the defense.
Adequate defense has been the catchword of every militarist for centuries.
International football's not always about playing the top three in the world - it's about going to some of the tougher places around Europe and playing real tough games.
I'm playing for the team. If I've got four goals, it's because the team are playing well.
...you can't play any defense if the other team is on the foul line.
We don't need any troops abroad-they don't help our defense.
Be prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you.
