Famous Quotes & Sayings

Corey Parker

We really emphasize how big these Western Division games are. We are the Western Division champs and we want to come out here and defend our title. So we wanted to come out here and play this game strong and we did.

We held Isaiah to six (in the first half) and all of a sudden these other guys come out of nowhere. We have to defend every player on the court.

We held Diggs to 16 points, so we did a good job on him, but that Dykstra has one of the prettiest shots I have ever seen. I felt like we defended him pretty well, but he scored 29 points, so I guess I can't say we held him down.

What we've got going on is an unfair characterization that we can't defend against. I mean, they're pulling out three sentences of thousands of pages of cross-examination.

We played well as group; defensively, to hold them to three points when it mattered - and they have some weapons in that spread offense - thought we defended it real well.

We played 60 minutes. We defended with energy and we played with urgency.

We play defense, but we don't specifically play to defend the 26-foot 3-pointer, and they hit some of those.

We will defend ourselves, and we have full rights to do so. If the authorities try to destroy us, we have the right to rise up. Sooner or later this will happen.

When you are attacked, you need to defend yourself. The same way I would defend constituents in Washington.

Willie Nelson

I think most people realize that our problems are our government, not me and you individually, except that we can - must have some sort of responsibility, because they're in there and they were elected, so we have to defend ourselves on those lines.

Mike Murphy

We actually played pretty well. We shot 53 percent from the field and I thought we defended real well. The issue really is that Southwest 71 percent from the field, and that's to their credit. Our kids responded and took every punch. I was proud of how they responded.

Lindy Ruff

We're a team that goes after it. We're going to play our style. It's all about what we want to do and get them to try to defend us.

We're excited about getting ready to play in the Big South. I think it's going to be another great run. We're ready, hopefully, to defend our title.

Brian Finneran

We're doing OK, I guess, ... But if one of us went down, not many people outside our team would even notice. For the Patriots to lose guys like Rodney Harrison and Tedy Bruschi is huge, but everyone knows they're the defending champs for a reason.

William Beveridge

Scratch a pessimist and you find often a defender of privilege.

John Brady

We won the game because we defended, our press helped us and we got to the foul line and made free throws. I think because we defended pretty good the whole game, we got to the foul line.

There is more happening today in the urban and developed part of New Jersey than has happened in the last several decades. A lot of that is in part because of the success of defending the environment out in the hinterland.

Oren Peli

The thing I find really scary about ghosts and demons is that you don't really know what they are or where they are. They're not very well understood. You don't know what they want from you. So it's the kind of thing you don't even know how to defend yourself against. Anything that's unknown and mysterious is very scary.

When a robbery victim does not defend himself, the robber succeeds 88 percent of the time, and the victim is injured 25 percent of the time. When a victim resists with a gun, the robbery success rate falls to 30 percent, and the victim injury rate falls to 17 percent. No other response to a robbery -- from drawing a knife to shouting for help to fleeing -- produces such low rates of victim injury and robbery success.

Iris Murdoch

We defend ourself with descriptions and tame the world by generalizing

Bill Evans

We defended well, but we don't play up-and-down. They had 58 possessions and we only had 51. The games we play are usually (between 52 and 55).

We defended very well. If we had shot our free throws better, it wouldn't have been this close.

We defended Roeder very well. We held him to no field goals in the second half. But we put them on the line too much.

We defended real well on the last shot, but their kid hit a nice shot. It was a heck of a game. Our kids played hard.

We defended really, really well. We can be a pretty good team if we can make a few shots.

We defended pretty well all night. Our defense kept us within range. What Ted, Jacques, Derrick and Taylor (Pratt) did in the first half gave us hope and kept us close.

Mike Woodson

We defended it right up until the end. I think we made proper switches on their last sets and we were able to get the stop when we needed it.

We didn't play our game at all, and we were still in the game at halftime. Our defense wasn't as good as it could have been. We didn't do a good job defending (Thompson).

We didn't do a very good job of defending dribble-drives tonight and I think we're better than that.

We didn't do anything different than what we've done all year. We used a different defensive scheme, and we felt our defense defended their Wing-T successfully.

Andy Gray

Listen, if you're a defender, DO BETTER!

Cristiano Ronaldo

One rule that will work if it is used everywhere, is that when you have a free-kick, the referee puts the mark on the floor to make sure the defenders keep their distance.

We did what we had to do tonight; we had to defend the home court. The pressure was on us. (Clarke coach) Jon (Davison) knew he had a step and a half up on the league if they come in and get that win tonight.