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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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,

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.

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.

Charles Gregory

We did a poor job of executing tonight. But Wilson did a good job of defending our shooters and putting pressure on the ball.

We did a good job defending and a good job rebounding the ball, but we just had a lot of shots that went halfway down and out.

We had some big matches with our seniors and we held our own. The three that won tonight were defending state champs and wrestled like state champs should.

We had shots, but they weren't falling. We were defending pretty good, but we just weren't making shots.

We're not defending like we usually do. It's putting us in a position where we all have to score the ball, because we're not getting stops. We're not defending at all. That's been our motto. That's our identity. We defend, and we get stops.

Tony Snow

No president has looked this impotent this long when it comes to defending presidential powers and prerogatives.

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.

Mike Williamson

Mike has really developed into a guy where if you need a goal, you have him in on the ice and the same when you are defending the lead. He plays in all situations and provides leadership in the dressing room. He logs a ton of ice time.

That was one of my goals this week, come in and not give up any points. There's going to be extra pressure (being a defending champion) but I'll be taking it like I have on the other matches. I have to step it up next week.

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.

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 can't enjoy this for very long. They're the defending champs until someone unseats them.

I don't like the fact that we are 0-1, but I think we found out we have a good football team today. They are the defending champs and a very good football team.

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.

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.

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.

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.