Del Harris quotes

“There has never been a great 'silent' defense”
-- Del Harris

#Basketball Quotes #Defense Quotes #Silent Quotes

“It is not overwhelmingly difficult for a committed group of players with only average individual basketball skills to put together a very good team defense.”
-- Del Harris

#Basketball Quotes #Team Quotes #Player Quotes

“Nobody can guard Kobe one-on-one. Nobody.”
-- Del Harris

“I love the flow of the game. There's a certain fluidity to basketball. I don't enjoy watching baseball or football in the same way.”

Source : "An Interview with Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys". Interview with David Flumenbaum, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 3, 2008.

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

Source : Adolf Galland (1954). “The First and the Last: The Rise and Fall of the German Fighter Forces, 1938-1954”

“Wipe out the entire defense potential remaining to the Soviets.”

“In '82 Brazil showed that you can't win the World Cup without a solid defense.”

“As the duties of superintending the national defense and of securing the public peace against foreign or domestic violence involve a provision for casualties and dangers to which no possible limits can be assigned, the power of making that provision ought to know no other bounds than the exigencies of the nation and the resources of the community.”

“The defense of morals is the battle-cry which best rallies stupidity against change.”

“My distraction's my defense against this lack of inspiration Against this slow deflation Yeah the further the horizon The more it holds my gaze The foreground's out of focus but you know I kinda hope it's just a phase Just a phase.”

“It is thus quite simply false that whereof one cannot speak (in the sense of 'there is nothing to say about it that specifies it and grants it separating properties'), thereof one must be silent. It must on the contrary be named.”

“Be silent always when you doubt your sense.”

“I have often repented of having spoken, but never of having been silent.”