It's good to be good at playing defence, but the best defence is a strong offence.
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I never expected to be Defence Secretary. It's a great privilege.
BOB AINSWORTH We all have 2 legs, 2 hands, and 1 heart but we still fight wars and kill many people with stars and...
NOMAN QAYYUM We ran the ball well but their defence was too good,
GEORGE HAMILTON [Like Rangers, their attacking options are offset by an untested defence.] They are not as good in d...
CARLOS MACHADO [Like Rangers, their attacking options are offset by an untested defence.] They are not as good in d...
CARLOS MACHADO Defence is our best attack.
JAY WEATHERILL Self-defence is Nature's eldest law.
JOHN DRYDEN [Like Rangers, their attacking options are offset by an untested defence.] They are not as good in d...
CARLOS MACHADO [Like Rangers, their attacking options are offset by an untested defence.] They are not as good in d...
CARLOS MACHADO For wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence: but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom giv...
ECCLESIASTES 7:12 We know we are a nasty defence. We know we are a good defence, but last year we didn't have enough t...
JEREMIAH TROTTER Building bridges is the best defence against ignorance.
AARON LAURITSEN But which is the State's essential function, aggression or defence, few seem to know or care.
BENJAMIN TUCKER For me, it is very important to control a situation in defence. You can always score goals, but you ...
BASTIAN SCHWEINSTEIGER The defence has to get used to playing with the goalkeeper.
FRANZ BECKENBAUER The best defence against misguided arrogance is a keen sense of humour.
KATHRYN L. NELSON I think our defence probably is a little overlooked, but pitching and defence are going to win you a...
RYAN LANGERHANS The best defense is a good offence
PROVERB Zeno first started that doctrine, that knavery is the best
defence against a knave.
PLUTARCH Offence is no longer defence - it's a full-time profession. Everyone is so offended all the time...
KARAN JOHAR Oft has good nature been the fool's defence,
And honest meaning gilded want of sense.
WILLIAM SHENSTONE The best defence against mafia business is full declaration of assets and incomes.
MILOS ZEMAN Some people get very confused about my game. They think it's better if the court is slow, becaus...
RAFAEL NADAL The Patriot missile is a point defence missile. Point defence means that you put the missile at a lo...
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF We had a very good and useful meeting and I was very pleased to get the Russian proposal on missile ...
GEORGE ROBERTSON Here at the Joe, guys are getting used to the speed and the body positioning. Teams that can skate a...
KRIS DRAPER Sadness is also a kind of defence.
IVO ANDRIC What boots it at one gate to make defence,
And at another to let in the foe?
JOHN MILTON What boots it at one gate to make defence,/ And at another to let in the foe?
JOHN MILTON The best way to defend is to attack,because by attacking you are also defending your territory.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Bow down thine ear to me; deliver me speedily: be thou my strong rock, for an house of defence to sa...
BIBLE Education is the cheap defence of nations.
EDMUND BURKE I was Minister for the Armed Forces in the Ministry of Defence for two years prior to being appointe...
BOB AINSWORTH Defence is first for Greg Prymack,
STEVE PRICE Defence, not defiance.
MOTTO Strength lies not in defence but in attack.
MARQUIS DE ACERBA Never make a defence or apology before you be accused.
CHARLES I There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.
E. V. LUCAS Especially against a defence like that, it feels great,
RONNIE BROWN The history of man is the history of crimes, and history can repeat. So information is a defence. Th...
SIMON WIESENTHAL There is no such thing as a successful defence.
GENERAL GEORGE S. PATTON Millions for defence, but not one cent for tribute.
SILVIO PELLICO David solidifies our defence,
GOLDEN BEARS Our life is a series of moments. Let them all go. Moments. All gathering towards this one.
NOW IS GOOD She had always maintained a cynical facade, using it as a defence against embarrassment, fear, lonel...
LISA KLEYPAS Lying is the most simple form of self-defence.
SUSAN SONTAG But which is the State's essential function, aggression or defence, few seem to know or care.
BENJAMIN TUCKER The names of the new defence panel will be made public after it is okayed by the president,
AL-QAEDA It's my experience at Fiat and, now, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles that when there is a very strong ...
JOHN ELKANN Take the head off the chicken, and it runs around. The defence has been doing that way before I got ...
CHRIS HOVAN We need to just study what other countries have done. There are examples of a strong partnership bet...
BABA KALYANI An uncalled-for defence becomes a positive accusation.
DECIMUS LABERIUS I was defence minister for a few years,
KIM BEAZLEY Money is power, wealth is a defence, how do you desire them?
VIKRANT PARSAI This offence is going to be very good.
STEVE MCNAIR When my mother tells me to do something, I'll do my own thing. A strong character can be good, b...
ADELINA SOTNIKOVA We didn't get him touches then because of what they were doing (on defence) and what we were doing u...
MIKE GIBSON To appreciate the best opportunity for attack and defence, you must fully understand the rhythm of m...
SADAMI YAMADA Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as s...
ANDREW JACKSON Lying is the most simple form of self-defence. -Susan Sontag.
SUSAN SONTAG I know where Fernando is coming from. It is hard sometimes, to be moved about but I suppose that's p...
IAN MURRAY Here lies a Proof that Wit can never be
Defence enough against Mortality
APHRA BEHN There is always more spirit in attack than in defence.
TITUS LIVIUS You want to be playing your best basketball at the end of the season. But not only are we playing go...
BEN HOWLAND A people morally and intellectually equal to self-government must also be equal in self-defence.
JEFFERSON DAVIS Cheney was among the best secretaries of defence the country has ever had. He was a very effective W...
BARTON GELLMAN Nothing 'gainst Times scythe can make defence.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I am still not at all in favour of offering any defence. Even if the court had accepted that petitio...
BHAGAT SINGH The means of defence agst. foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home.
JAMES MADISON It is the right of a democratically elected parliament to act in defence of our traditional libertie...
JEREMY CORBYN Part of the premium is due to its exposure to the military and defence industries.
GARY MURPHY Yea, the Almighty shall be thy defence, and thou shalt have plenty of silver.
BIBLE When (Harris) is playing as good as he can be, and (Daniel) Horton's playing at a certain level, the...
TOMMY AMAKER Humour has always been a self-defence mechanism for me.
BROOKE SHIELDS India is the second biggest defence procurer in the world after the U.S.
BABA KALYANI It's great to be somewhat of a role model. I want to be a positive and good role model and lead ...
RICKIE FOWLER Ten years ago U.S. defence investment represented almost half of all defence expenditure in the whol...
ANDERS FOGH RASMUSSEN I'm working at trying to be a Christian, and that's serious business. It's like trying t...
MAYA ANGELOU My applications submitted to the Tribunal regarding my interview during the hunger strike were misin...
BHAGAT SINGH I try to play like I did when I was a young boy playing in my garden. Sometimes it's good, somet...
EDEN HAZARD Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defence of peace must be co...
UNKNOWN A good boxing competition gives one the sight of fine men in their prime, trained to the ounce, show...
ROBERT BADEN-POWELL If the best is possible, than good is never enough and only do the best.
ROBERT SIAHAAN Doesn't the fight for survival also justify swindle and theft? In self defence, anything goes.
IMELDA MARCOS Our goal as a defence is to go out there and dominate. I think we did that.
NATE CLEMENTS I think there is no defending a title. You don't go into a season with a points advantage over a...
CASEY STONER I was playing the best football of my career at the time, finishing top scorer in Italy three year...
MICHEL PATINI Invincibility lies in the defence; the possibility of victory in the attack.
SUN TZU That's the type of thing we can do on defence. We want to do something special.
SIMEON RICE It feels good to be strong.
KATHARINE MCPHEE [But it's not all plain sailing. Provenco recently settled an insider trading case taken by the Secu...
DAVID RITCHIE Good becomes better by playing against better, but better doesn't become the best by playing against...
AMIT KALANTRI Immodest words admit of no defence;
For want of decency is want of sense.
WENTWORTH DILLON, EARL OF ROSCOMON We're in good shape because our offence has been very good at this point.
JOHN GIBBONS God bless the Union; - it is dearer to us for the blood of brave men which has been shed in its defe...
EDWARD EVERETT The best part is it's a dream come true. I've always wanted to be a working actor, and the g...
SCOTT FOLEY Defence must be more adaptable, able to respond quickly to the changes in the security environment a...
BOB AINSWORTH In the one defence, briefly, we accept responsibility but deny that it was bad: in the other, we adm...
J. L. AUSTIN We need to be a lot quicker in forming our defence and a lot more assertive when we go in for the ta...
PETER RUSSELL It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.
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