Top 44 Guarding Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Guarding Quotes from famous people such as Amar’e Stoudemire, Lynsey Addario, Zach LaVine, George Segal, Jrue Holiday, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

In the NBA, there is a guy guarding you, and you really

In the NBA, there is a guy guarding you, and you really have to try shooting over him.
Amar’e Stoudemire
You have two options when you approach a hostile checkpoint in a war zone, and each is a gamble. The first is to stop and identify yourself as a journalist and hope that you are respected as a neutral observer. The second is to blow past the checkpoint and hope the soldiers guarding it don’t open fire on you.
Lynsey Addario
You have to communicate with your teammates; you have to be on a string. There are a lot of things that go into a play. And then you are guarding a two or three, which is probably one of their better players on the team, so you’re focused on them.
Zach LaVine
Even though the museums guarding their precious property fence everything off, in my own studio, I made them so you and I could walk in and around, and among these sculptures.
George Segal
Guarding Kevin Durant – that’s fun for me.
Jrue Holiday
You’re a sitting duck in a mall if you’re a celebrity. It’s like that scene from ‘Guarding Tess,’ I think it is, where Shirley MacLaine goes to the mall just to feel good about her celebrity.
Brad Paisley
As we are aware, Indo-China border is undemarcated. We have to be very vigilant while guarding the borders.
Rajnath Singh
Every action is seen to fall into one of three main categories, guarding, hitting, or moving. Here, then, are the elements of combat, whether in war or pugilism.
B. H. Liddell Hart
I think when you have the point guard guarding someone full court and just chasing the guy all around, always in the right spot, it just makes you want to get down in a stance and be his backup and have his help whenever he needs it. Or having the same energy that he has.
Brandon Ingram
It’s a war of wills out there on the court. You have to have a stronger will than your opponent, and every guy on your team has to feel that same way against the guy he’s guarding.
Ray Allen
How many guards are doing what I’m doing guarding 1 through 5? How many bigs are guarding 1s the way I’m guarding 5s?
Marcus Smart
I try to take whatever the defense gives me, have a sense of urgency, know who’s guarding me and pick my spots, get my teammates involved and also attack the rim.
Brandon Ingram
‘The Crumbling of America’ should be required viewing for local and national government, not to mention the local and national media who should be keeping their feet to the fire on guarding against disaster.
Rachel Sklar
My parents grew that small business from one 18-year-old guarding a bingo to more than 125 employees in three states. And sure, there was help along the way. But my parents took the risk. They stood up. And you better believe they built it.
Susana Martinez
I live in a small apartment in London, not some big house with a lot of security. I don’t like too much security. There’s no freedom. I’m a person, not some precious diamond that needs guarding every second.
Julian Lennon
Agribusiness – with its wicked powerful lobby and its infiltration of top bureaucratic posts – essentially runs roughshod over the government agencies that are supposed to monitor it. It’s the rich fox guarding the filthy, overcrowded henhouse.
Jane Velez-Mitchell
I was guarding the best player and getting 25 and having eight assists, and three-four steals.
Gary Payton
Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance.
Horace
Someone did a graphic of me in my jersey, and Jordan, they dubbed him guarding me, and Kanye’s face was on both of us. That’s my favorite meme of all time – or so far to-date. I’m gonna have to get that blown up on my wall or something.
Stephen Curry
I’ve got the mind-set that I’m going to play as hard as I can, and I’m going to make the person guarding me work as hard as he can.
Khris Middleton
The key to guarding Kevin Durant is to play really good team defense. One on one, it’s just tough. So you try to get all five guys to play against him.
Danilo Gallinari
Goal of mine is to make first team All-Defense. The way you do that is guarding the best players.
Tristan Thompson
Guarding your heart and protecting your dignity are a little bit more important than clarifying the emotions of someone who’s only texting you back three words. I’ve learned that from trying to figure out people who don’t deserve to be figured out.
Taylor Swift
My mentality when guarding a point guard was always to try and disrupt him and take them out of the offense.
Scottie Pippen
It’s how I’ve been playing my whole life, guarding the best player on the other team.
Kawhi Leonard
We got to figure out or define what is a legal guarding position because there are times where he can move his hands out of the way, but it’s hard to tell a guy what to do when somebody is running into you, you know what I mean? I don’t know what a legal guarding position is at times.
Monty Williams
I couldn’t care less if the guy I’m guarding has HIV. I’m going to slam him anyway.
Dennis Rodman
I think I’m the best at protecting the paint and guarding my man.
Roy Hibbert
I help my team win. That’s overall what I do best. If you watch me play, I’m usually going to be on the winning team. Whether it’s scoring enough points or rebounding enough or guarding the best player on the other team, I’m gonna do what it takes to win.
Malcolm Brogdon
Often, our laws and policies reflect patriarchal biases that can trap men in stereotypes – for example, the idea of guarding the modesty of a woman serves neither men nor women nor any other gender – instead, it comes from the same strong patriarchal framework that we need to confront and reject.
Rohini Nilekani
In college, I prided myself on defense and guarding the best player every night.
Malcolm Brogdon
If you're guarding a guy like Carmelo, obviously you ha

If you’re guarding a guy like Carmelo, obviously you have to stay close to him because he can get hot.
Harrison Barnes
The biggest thing to realize when you’re guarding great players is, look, they’re going to score – it’s hard to guard anyone one-on-one, straight-up and have them be shut out. You just want to try to make them work for their possessions.
Harrison Barnes
I don’t say that I am playing great defense, but I am working hard at trying to make it tough for each offensive player that I’m guarding.
Bojan Bogdanovic
I get the job of guarding the ‘tough guy’ every night so I just try to bring the same energy every night with whoever it is that I’m facing.
Trevor Ariza
When you’re older and get more experience, the game slows down for you. I know exactly what spot to get to where I can always get my shot off no matter who’s guarding me.
Dirk Nowitzki
Me, guarding the best post players in the league, it definitely takes a toll on your body. But that’s why I get massages regularly, cold tub, foot baths, rest and the weight room.
Tristan Thompson
Every opinion must be suffered. One must listen to what may be rousing, annoying, even shocking, but it must be done honestly, fairly and with equanimity, respecting the rights of every Member of the Knesset and each faction, guarding the minority in the face of the predatory majority.
Reuven Rivlin
There’s nothing like doing in-game stuff that you can’t get from drills. You’re guarding somebody, you’re reacting, you’re getting a rebound and trying to go straight back up with it.
Gordon Hayward
It’s always a little gross when you’re guarding someone and you can see, like, hair coming from underneath his jersey.
Blake Griffin
Guarding and defending is not easy.
Mike Budenholzer
The fact of the matter is that whether it’s in London or Egypt or Turkey or New York or Washington, we have to pay the price of guarding ourself, which is internal vigilance.
John Reid
Commercial banks are very good for certain businesses, like loans and guarding other people’s money. They’re not great investors or entrepreneurs.
John Gutfreund
I’ve always kinda guarded perimeter guys. I’m a little bit more comfortable guarding guys off screens. It kinda keeps me engaged in the game, locked in.
Kyle Kuzma