Defense is the action of defending from or resisting attack.

1. It was anticipating self-defense.
Mario Cuomo

2. We would love to have Gary down here, … Gary is [37] years old, but he is still tenacious on defense. I know he still wants [a championship], and I am the only guy in the world that can give him one.
Shaquille O'Neal

3. The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

4. Defense to me is the key to playing baseball.
Willie Mays

5. A faithful friend is a strong defence and he that hath found such an one hath found a treasure.
Ecclesiasticus

6. A faithful friend is a strong defense; And he that hath found him hath found a treasure.
Louisa May Alcott

7. If you play good attack, you win the game, but, if you play good defence you win championships
Zeljko Obradovic

8. We can put that in a suitcase and take it anywhere we want to. The offense may not travel but defense travels and that’s what we try to do.
George Hill

9. Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.
Red Auerbach

10. People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.
Vince Lombardi

11. Feeling confident in your ability to protect yourself empowers you to live with less fear and more FREEDOM
Nicole Sundine

12. The only defensible war is a war of defense.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

13. The Sicilian Defense album was never released and never will be if I have anything to do with it. I have not heard it since it was finished. I hope the tapes no longer exist.
Alan Parsons

14. Often times I have hated in self-defense; if I were stronger I would not have used such a weapon.
Kahlil Gibran

15. There’s only one basic principle of self-defense- you must apply the most effective weapon, as soon as possible, to the most vulnerable target
Bruce Lee

16. Self-defense is not just a set of techniques; it’s a state of mind, and it begins with the belief that you are worth defending
Rorion Gracie

17. Defense is superior to opulence.
Adam Smith

18. Offense sells tickets, defense wins games
Anonymous

19. I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence.
Malcom X

20. Self-defense…is the only honourable course where there is unreadiness for self-immolation.
Mahatma Gandhi

21. Defense is an attitude
Anonymous

22. I’m hoping they’ll think we’re some people from Tennessee who don’t know how to play soccer and take us lightly. And then we can just prove them wrong. We have a great defense, and we hardly ever get scored on.
Jordan Leedle

23. The best defense against these people is to educate parents and children of the dangers that come along with the Internet and by limiting access to certain sites during the school day.
Mike Fitzpatrick

24. The best defense against being hurt is to feel good about yourself and the way a person responds to you says more about them, than about you.
Brenda Shoshanna

25. In silence – and in self-defense – I figured things out in my own little way.
Loretta Young

26. Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression.
Malcolm X

27. A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.
Mignon McLaughlin

28. Offense wins games. Defense wins championships
Anonymous

29. Never make a defense or apology before you be accused.
King Charles I

30. There is no client as scary as an innocent man.J. Michael Haller, Criminal Defense Attorney, Los Angeles, 1962.
Michael Connelly

31. It was her unconvincing, elusive self-defense that continued to damn her.
Roger Ebert

32. I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence.
Malcolm X

33. Humor is just another defense against the universe.
Mel Brooks

34. Attack Is The Best Form Of Defense
Anonymous

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35. Defensiveness is usually someone silently screaming that they need you to value and respect them in disguise.
Sharon Alder

36. Offense wins games, but defense wins championship.
Becky Novacek

37. Knowing who you are is the best defense against who they think you are
Anonymous

38. Lawyers claim that their clients have been grossly mistreated, which is what criminal defense lawyers are paid to do.
Ken Starr

39. There is never a reason to be defensive. If you are wrong you have no defense, if you are right you need no defense.
Anonymous

40. You are most powerful when you are most silent. People never expect silence. They expect words, motion, defense, offense, back and forth. They expect to leap into the fray. They are ready, fists up, words hanging leaping from their mouths. Silence? No
Anonymous

41. The best defense is attack
Anonymous

42. In training self-defense, there's no cost…it's an investment.
Coach Michael Joyce

43. [He] changes the whole outlook of our defense.
Jason Kidd

44. War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.
Bill Moyers

45. I have a hard time defending the production of candy, given that it is basically crack for children and makes them dependent in unwholesome ways.
Steve Almond

46. Bobby Knight told me this 'There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.' In other words a good offense wins.
Dan Quayle

47. My father was a soccer player. All my friends played basketball though, so I stuck with basketball.
Steve Nash

48. In The Present Imperialistic Milieu There Can Be No Wars Of National Self-defense.
Karl Liebknecht

49. Defense is what matters. Scoring doesn't interest me.
David Robinson

50. I wasn't a bad basketball player, but I was far from the world's greatest. Good defense, no offense – that was me.
Chuck Connors

51. Even before women could vote, they could legally carry firearms for self-defense. Shouldn’t modern women have that same right?
Anonymous

52. Lying is an elementary means of self-defense.
Susan Sontag

53. Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense.
Steve Landesberg

54. Good basketball always starts with good defense!.
Bobby Knight

55. If You're Not Talking, You're Not Playing Defense.
Doc Rivers

56. And still I feel I said too much. My silence is my self defense
Anonymous

57. The Fully Matured Man Has No Fear No Defense He Is Psychologically Completely Open And Vulnerable.
Osho

58. A well informed citizenry is the best defense against tyranny.
Thomas Jefferson

59. We started out slow, but we just tightened up our defense on the basketball.
James McNall

60. The right of self defense never ceases. It is among the most sacred, and alike necessary to nations and to individuals, and whether the attack be made by Spain herself or by those who abuse her power, its obligation is not the less strong.
James Monroe

61. Those to whom defense is not important will have the best seat in the game.
Rick Majerus

62. I would, therefore, say that for no reason whatsoever, except in self-defence, should one think of killing any animal.
Morarji Desai

63. The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
James Madison

64. We're just not a consistently good defence baseball team.
Andy landers

65. I haven't played defense in a couple years.
Rajon Rondo