Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dennis Miller

Just put down 9/11... I think, on most things I'm liberal, except on defending ourselves and keeping half the money. Those things I'm kind of conservative on.

Mark Johnson

I was disappointed about the way we wrestled today. We had five guys in the finals and didn't get it done. We seemed to be satisfied with qualifying for nationals and not defending our title.

There is extreme nervousness about November. The last thing that members want is to be out there in a tough campaign, where the wind is at your face, defending the indefensible.

Ken Hitchcock

We took really poor penalties. We made defending mistakes. When you don't kill them off, it's deflating. And when you don't score on your opportunities, it's even more deflating.

We've got to score easier. We're defending at a high level, playing with lots of effort, but we're just not scoring. We're leaving so many opportunities out there on the floor.

I think we hit a wall. I thought we were defending pretty well in the first half, and I just think there was nothing left.

They did a good job of defending me. They played me tough the whole game. I didn't know I had scored 15 points. I am just glad we won the game.

Larry Craig

about you and your profitability. And I must tell you, it's not terribly fun defending you.

They were just quicker at every position. And that gave us trouble. They were the better team. They showed why they are the defending national champions.

They're the defending (tournament) champs. We've seen them and they're not a 12 seed.

Larry Craig

It's not terribly fun defending you, but I do.

There were possessions were it seemed like we were defending 90 seconds in a row.

This is what we've worked all this time for. We've been looking forward to defending our division title for a year. We've been working towards this since last December, and now it's here. It's a new beginning.

Paul Houston

This kind of thing distracts energy and resources for defending yourself. Sometimes there are important precedents to be set, but sometimes people are just trying to have their way with the districts.

They really took it to us. They are a very quick-hitting team. They do a terrific job running a full-court offense. ... We had a heck of a time defending it. They kept us on the move faster than we could do our fundamentals.

John Tavares

They're a hot team and the defending champions. So we have a lot to prove.

Scott Brooks

There's a reason the Spurs are the defending champions. They really execute down the stretch. They just don't make many errors, and if you do, they really punish you.

It wasn't pretty at all. We were trying to dig ourselves out of a hole all night. We had a hard time defending people and a hard time making shots. It was just one of those nights.

Nomar Garciaparra

It was something new every time I turned around that season. Ultimately, you don't have the energy to keep defending yourself, but at this point I don't want to rehash it. I've moved on and they've moved on.

It was a very poor first half. We were just defending all the time and we were told that we had to play more and put them under pressure in the second half and we did that very well.

As far as preparations go this week, we're going to spend as much time defending the pass as we do the rush.

Michael Leunig

As a cartoonist, I am not interested in defending the dominant, the powerful, the well-resourced and the well-armed because such groups are usually not in need of advocacy, moral support or sympathetic understanding; they have already organised sufficient publicity for themselves and prosecute their points of view with great efficiency.

Brad Soderberg

Our deficiency as 3-point shooters showed up, badly. When that happens, there is a domino effect. Once we quit making our shots from the perimeter, they stop defending us. Then our No. 1 threat, which is Ian, just gets locked down. Ian did not get a shot at the basket.

Dave Wannstedt

No question, we've seen it all. There's nothing in there we won't have seen. But as a defensive coach, you can't worry about defending ghosts. You can talk all you want about a team and the way they do things, but it comes down to what gets done on the field,

Defending the home field is very important. Last year, we started winning (at home) and we're trying to keep that going.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Defending a free and open global Internet requires a broad-based global movement with the stamina to engage in endless - and often highly technical - national and international policy battles.

The schedule says we have to play Burlington first, and there's nothing you can do about that. They are the defending Middlesex League champs, with a great program and great players and coaches, and I think this game will have great implications on how the Middlesex League turns out.

Timothy Noah

What I've learned, and will try to remember from now on, is that defending your country's credibility is never sufficient reason to fight a war.

Jim Crace

English politics is so much more concerned with the proprieties than with defending dogmas.

Pat Riley

You can't be happy with the whole disposition of our team in the second half, playing with a 20-point lead and not defending at all. We showed very little respect for all the hard work and good play. I'm happy we were able to win it at the end, but obviously we can't play like that.

Marvin Hier

Every (Holocaust) survivor in the world walked a little taller and felt a little more secure because Simon Wiesenthal was out there defending their honor and the honor of their loved ones who perished.

Philip Kerr

After a while, you get tired of being the official Scot and defending everything Scottish.

We did a pretty good job of defending them all night.