Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kara Lawson

We hadn't seen Seattle in a long time and they are the defending champs, the team with the title. We were excited about matching up with them to see what we could do.

I've spent my life defending the Net, and I do feel that if we don't fight online crime, we are running a risk of losing it all.

We got the momentum (after the first goal). We always had the better of the play, but (Braden River) was defending good. I tell you, (Braden River) next year is going to have a really good team. It's a new school that is just starting off. But they battled really well and never gave up.

I was very exhausted this morning. I didn't feel 100 percent, and actually I didn't really play my game. I did more defending than anything.

I think Robert Morris is a very talented team. They scared me when they jumped out to that lead, but we regrouped at halftime. We started playing better defense and defending their perimeter shot better.

Bobby Jones

It doesn't matter that we've never seen the family. They lost someone defending our freedom, and we owe them more gratitude than we can ever give them. We're really happy to be able to do this.

Drew Miller

We're defending champs, we want to repeat and the pressure is on us to get to the finals and win it again.

We're defending a league championship for the third straight year. Any time you're doing that, everyone's gunning for you.

We especially got hurt on the defensive boards. (Zion) had a lot of put-backs. We did a good job initially defending them, but then we let them have too many second and third shots.

Today we have seen who is defending human rights.

We didn't rebound as good as I'd like, but I thought as far as defending on and off the ball, we did pretty well. For the most part, it was a pretty good team effort.

Dan Wheldon

We're not too worried about it because you don't get points for qualifying. We know we've got a strong package and I'm looking forward to defending my win here and start the season off on the right foot.

I would have liked him to have put it up a few more times, but they also did a good job of defending him in the second half. He got us back in it in the first half.

Mike Bass

I felt like we were ready, but this was one of those first games where everything that could go wrong, did. You're never thrilled to be opening your season with the defending state champion.

Billy Donovan

For us, it was a game we had to grind it out. It wasn't always our style of play. ... Tonight was about consecutive stops and defending the 3-point line. They shot 19 percent from the 3-point line and 39 percent from the field. That was the difference.

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.

I think it did help her. She was in a heat with the defending state champion, and that really did help. She rose to the occasion.

There is heavy shelling and movements of their aircraft. We are just responding and defending our positions.

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.

We're pretty good, too. We're just going to do the things we need to do. We have a particular style. If it's good enough, it's good enough. If it's not, it's not. They're the defending national champions, so as long as they have that title, they're the best.

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 don't know a lot about Richmond. We just received film on them (on Thursday). They're defending champions, though, so we're taking them serious.

Hugo Chavez

Venezuela is used to defending itself ... and fighting imperialism,

We stand with other Texans in defending Texas as a good place to live.

We're still the defending state champions, and we're not going to go quietly in any game.

We're getting a lot of guys involved. That's important. We're defending teams as well as we have all year.

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.

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.

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.

Our goal was to put Luke (Simmons) on (Phillips), and hold him to under 15 points He did a good job defending him.

Cappie Pondexter

My motto is, 'We don't lose on our home floor,' and I thought we did a good job of defending it. This is a new year now, and we're looking to take this game going into the Big East schedule.