Top 1200 Playing Defense Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

I love mythic stuff. I love playing with gods, I love playing with myths. A lot of it has to do with that they're the basic places stories come from. They're the clay that you make the bricks out of.

I'm ready to come out and show people I'm able to play defense.

"He who wants to protect everything, protects nothing," is one of the fundamental rules of defense.

Extremism in defense of Liberty is no vice and moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

I am capable of dribbling the ball. I can dribble. And I can play a little defense!

Defense is something I've always taken pride in from college and high school.

First of all, I never think of my characters as good or evil. I play them as honestly as I can. When you're playing a good character, you have an idea that you're playing the hero and the good guy.

Those to whom defense is not important will have the best seat in the game

I would say playing doubles is great for, you know, just in general. For the singles game, as well. You're able to work on returns, serves, aggressive playing. Also able to practice pressure situations.

Nothing is like being out there and playing and performing and winning - nothing. But to have an interest in the player? The nerves and everything that goes with it? Seeing what he's learned and how he's done it? That's the second best thing to playing. I think.

I was always singing but didn't plan on pursuing it seriously. 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.

Death comes to everyone. We must stand proud as Afghans in the defense of Islam.

I had been playing since I was 2 years old, never remembering a life without music, always playing everything naturally and mostly by ear, and all the grownups wanted were more scales and drudgery out of me.

When you're playing a romantic version of a real person, you're playing a version of the truth.

The danger with genre is playing genre instead of playing the honesty of what's going on.

I think the defense is going to dictate how many shots you get.

When you're used to playing with people, when you're in a band, then you're used to playing with each other. People nowadays aren't used to playing with each other because they don't have to.

I really like Caravan Palace's electro swing stuff. They incorporate the electronic, but when you see them live, they're all on stage playing live music. They're all playing their instruments. They drop these beats with the DJs that are so incredible.

I love playing rock music, man. You give me a guitar in my hands, and I go out there, and, for me, it's like...you know, some dudes like hunting, fishing, going out and playing ball in the backyard with their buddies on a rainy day. I like being out with my buddies playing rock guitar. That's what I love to do.

In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.

Some of the roots of role-playing games (RPGs) are grounded in clinical and academic role assumption and role-playing exercises.

Things happen, you have bad shooting days, the defense kind of figures you out.

The best defense is a well-directed fire from your own guns.

There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.

What we have to do is we have to make sure that our country is as strong as it can be economically and from a defense standpoint.

We need leaders who will stand unapologetically in defense of marriage and life.

I feel I'm most successful when I'm playing a concert, and it doesn't necessarily seem like I'm playing a saxophone but am coming off more like an orchestra or something like that.

... the best missile defense system of all would be a just and lasting peace.

My father really put that in my head that defense is one of the key things in basketball.

I'm a big fan of character actors like Johnny Depp and Gary Oldman. My goal is to continue playing character roles in indie films and move into playing character leads.

I am convinced of the necessity to take an effective measure of self defense.

I like every aspect of defense; I enjoy shutting down the offense.

'Badmaash Company' and 'Delhi Belly' was about friends, and I was part of the gang. And yes, they did have stars playing the lead! You do need a star to sell a film; and playing the second lead doesn't bother me.

Diplomacy and defense are not substitutes for one another. Either alone would fail.

I couldn't shoot and I couldn't score in high school. All I could do is dunk and play defense.

A comic book and a straight drama all have the same elements. If you're playing tragedy, you have to be aware of the comedy; if you're playing comedy, you have to be aware of the tragedy. If you're playing comic book, you have to be aware of the reality.

Our job is to find players younger, where they are able to play from 11 years old and grow up playing the game. Rather than, you start playing when you are 17 or 18 and you don't get the opportunity to do anything with your career.

For me, playing music while I write is important. Several of the romantic scenes in 'Paris' were written with Debussy's 'String Quartet,' his 'L'Apres-midi d'une Faune,' or Canteloube's 'Songs of the Auvergne' playing in the background.

But be very, very careful, because when you're playing with momentum, you're playing with fire.

I was playing video games LONG before I ever thought about playing football. If it wasn't for my parents making sure that I got outside every now and then as a child, I probably would've pursued some sort of tech path.

Eternity is a child playing, playing checkers; the kingdom belongs to a child.

I just loved classical music, but I also loved playing rock guitar, and I loved playing piano, so it was a natural thing that those things would merge at some point.

Playing in midfield is a different ball game. You have to be on the half-turn all the time, have a different picture in your head of what is behind you and in front of you. Playing at right-back is different again.

Fed role - legal system, currency & defense, within its means.

To those who don't think defense is important, you'll get the best seat on the bench.

God's first line of defense - and offense - for every situation is prayer.

We [Jews] have no other means of self-defense than our solidarity

Playing music for as long as I had been playing music and then getting a shot at making a record and at having an audience and stuff, it's just like an untamed force... a different kind of energy.

I love playing a curmudgeon. I just love playing a sour guy.

Extol Jewish virtue, modern Zionism and the Israeli Defense Forces.

I'm not playing for Wolves just so I can get in squads. I'm concentrated on playing for Wolves.

I know in college, a player is playing for something every year so it is constantly competitive while in residency although you're playing with the top players in your age, you don't have many competitions other than the U-17 or U-20 World Cups.

Big league defense is going to get outs most times.

It is unreasonable ... to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.

Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.

Virginia is the absolute leader in homeland security and defense and information technology.

In my own defense, I wrote a one-man show, and that to me was more where I fit.

Everyone playing in the NBA likes to have pressure. If you didn't like pressure, you wouldn't be playing.

I'm excited about getting the opportunity to show people that I can play defense.

You start out playing in kitchens, and you end up playing in kitchens.