Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

They played like they were the defending national champions. They are difficult to defend and they execute extremely well.

They are defending the NAIA national champion. We better be ready. They are going to come at us.

Mario Llosa

they are defending the little power that they have left.

I called a time out when we were down 19. I said it's time to play with confidence; it's time to make shots. You guys are defending too hard to not make shots.

Jim Crace

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

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.

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.

Danny Smith

We tried zone, we tried man, we just struggled defending inside. I don't know, he's a good player and they did a good job getting him open and getting him the ball.

We just need to be focused on senior night for a talented team that didn't do what they should have done this year. We need to take our defense to a new level. (Tonight) is going to be a little more of a challenge. Rather than defending good systems, we'll be defending good athletes.

We just followed the game plan. Defending those guys is just a total team effort.

We simply are defending all people's faith and their right to free expression with their faith.

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.

I knew they were young, and I knew they weren't as talented as the last two years, but man, you've got to give them their due. Two-time defending state champs, it just feels good. It feels good. But our work's not over and the girls have to understand that. Feel good tonight and come ready to work tomorrow. This was a big hurdle for us.

Bill Cowher

It's hard enough defending this quarterback (Tom Brady) on a long field, ... When you have to defend him on a short field, it makes it even more difficult.

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.

It's a good tournament. We won it last year for the first time, so we're looking forward to defending our title.

It's going to be a tough game. They're defending 4A state champs, and they've got a player who is a handful. So we'll come up with something.

It's going to be a battle. They're defending champs, they're not going to give it away easily. Hopefully us taking three of four from them (earlier) this season is going to be in the back of their minds.

It looks like a big price to pay for something that is defending their own revenue.

I just told them we are three-time defending league champs and to be very, very proud of that. As painful as this is, we shouldn't lose sight of that accomplishment.

If you think about it, teams are going to be gunning for us every time we take the field. We're the defending champions, and we're going to be have to be ready to play every night.

His main thing was that we are not defending anything because we don't have a title. We won that last year.