Famous Quotes & Sayings

The allegations are entirely without merit and will be defended vigorously.

Eric Davis

Mike got his turn (on Thursday). He hadn't played much lately but he went out there and defended the heck out of people.

(Williams) was a handful because of the way we defended him. We just tried to switch everything on Terrill and make sure we had a hand in his face.

Jimmie Johnson

I thought if I could get to the outside of Matt, I had a shot. But as soon as I got outside him going into the first turn, the tires started chattering and I knew I could have a problem. Once I knew I couldn't get past him to the outside, I defended second.

Larry Brown

I was thrilled. The young kids have been working hard and it shows. They played together well and they defended well, made some big plays and that's a reward in itself.

I was happy with the way the guys played tonight, they played hard, and I thought we defended well at times.

We dropped passes and there were times I thought he should have thrown the ball. I don't know if they defended him or if he defended himself.

We played much better as a team this weekend. We defended and finished much better. Now it's time for district. These are the matches that count.

Eddie Jordan

We played a very good team tonight. They were at .500 and they're very competitive so our guys played well. We have to play smarter at times, but for the most part we defended very well and we shared the basketball.

I have always defended a title on the PGA Tour and I am greatly disappointed I won't be able to do so in Boston.

Adam Scott

I expect myself to play well. I've never defended a title yet but it would be nice to do it this week, especially to give me my first win in Australia.

Here is what I liked -- we rebounded and defended our butts off the whole game. We didn't make shots in the first half and that frustrated us. I wasn't concerned. I knew we'd come back in the second half. I just told our players that our (14,734) fans deserved a good performance.

Brent Scowcroft

His reaction was: 'Why would we want to be defended by you?'

Juan has been wanting to fight. If it was up to him, he would have defended his title three or four times in the past year instead of once.

Jeff Zucker

He didn't know if the man would back up and try and run him over, or whether he had a weapon, so he defended himself and hit the gentleman two times. Unfortunately, they were fatal blows.

I don't know about my defense, but as a team we defended really well.

Give (Liberty) credit. I thought they defended well. ... We were fortunate to win.

Give Johnson credit, they took it to us. They knocked us back on our heels and defended well.

Hugo Chavez

Venezuelan interests are to be defended by Venezuela. The U.S. should defend the interests of the U.S. Where are the U.S. people, where are the intellectuals, who could put limits on their government?

Flip Saunders

The positive was we defended down the stretch. That's what we're going to have to do when playoff time comes.

With this deal, Julius Baer has defended itself from being taken over. It shows the desire of Julius Baer to remain independent.

Ernst Toller

Each had defended his own country; the Germans Germany, the Frenchmen France; they had done their duty.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.