Famous Quotes & Sayings

We did play good defense in the fourth quarter. We stopped their penetration in the last five minutes of the game.

We didn't want to leave it in Brady's hands. The defense did a great job slowing him down, and then we did our job.

We didn't want to leave it in Brady's hands, ... The defense did a great job slowing him down, and then we did our job.

We didn't want to give up any big plays to some of their big-play kids. Our defense played very well tonight.

We didn't try hard enough. Defense in this league is about making multiple efforts, going from one thing to the next. We stood, watched and hoped that he (Cook) would miss. It gives you pause to think what do we really have here. What do we really have?

We didn't talk about me scoring, but we talked about me stepping up on defense and stopping Grim.

Alan Bennett

We have smaller defensive ends, but they're quick. They'll be OK. Everybody knows their job, and our defense is better this year. If we play better in the second half of the game this year, we'll do better.

Adam Kennedy

There is no doubt about it. It is a big situation, a big game, a fun game. It is fun to play defense like that and make big plays for your pitcher.

Benjamin Franklin

Innocence is its own defense.

Ben Bernanke

To avoid large and unsustainable budget deficits, the nation will ultimately have to choose among higher taxes, modifications to entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare, less spending on everything else from education to defense, or some combination of the above.

Bono

Sadly, I do my homework. I've a soft spot for the boring minutiae. I read the Charter of the United Nations before meeting with Kofi Annan. I read the Meltzer report, and then I'll read C. Fred Bergsten's defense of institutions like the World Bank and the I.M.F. It's embarrassing to admit.

We played well defensively tonight. We also rebounded well and shot pretty good from the floor. It has been our defense and rebounding that has been getting it done for us this year.

We played well as a team, and our defense supported our pitchers.

We played nice defense in the second half. We did a good job rebounding and limited them to only one shot.

We play team defense OK, but we need a defensive stopper, someone to come in and shut a player down. Luke played really hard today, and did some nice things defensively. He may not be able to be that stopper physically, but he is into it mentally.

We play such great defense, our kids take pride in it. Defense is what wins for us.

We play great defense in the third quarter, go into the fourth quarter and give up two scores, I can't explain it. This game was the worst exhibition of tackling at Nelson that I've seen in a long time.

We played with such passion in the fundamentals of the game - defense and the running game - which were the two things he loved.

We played with better emotion and worked hard for shots. Our team defense needs to improve.

We played a lot better defense after the first quarter. We went to a zone and that seemed to slow them down.

We played 40 minutes of solid defense. We didn't get in foul trouble. We want to play teams like Rhode Island and (teams in) the Big East where you know how the game is going to get called.

We play defensively as a team really well. We've been playing well all season long, but we play defense as a team. All 11 players are in on defense.

Bill Self

We probably played as good a defense the first 15 minutes as we've played all year. I thought our defense was great. We had a comfortable lead, but we should have scored eight or 10 more points.

Rex Ryan

We probably learned the ins and outs of (the 46 defense) in two days, but it took about 10 years to really put it into action,

We pride ourselves on our defense; that comes first. We knew they were a young team and have had problems with turnovers. We wanted to force them into making some decisions.

We pride ourselves in defense and like they say, defense wins championships.

We pressed hard on defense and worked on stealing balls,

Alexander Hamilton

This power ought to be coextensive with all the possible combinations of such circumstances; and ought to be under the direction of the same councils which are appointed to preside over the common defense.

Adolf Hitler

Protestantism as such is a better defender of the interests of Germanism, in so far as this is grounded in its genesis and later tradition; it fails, however, in the moment when this defense of national interests must take place in a province which is either absent from the general line of its ideological world and traditional development, or is for some reason rejected.

We're kind of streaky like that. We started with a little lull there in the first half, but then we got a little hot. The key is to keep playing steady defense and rebounding.

We still have to improve on some things. Our full-court defense for one. We aren't satisfied with our season yet. We know we have to improve, and we keep working every game.

We still had a lot of defensive breakdowns, but it?s nice to see kids understand the fact that defense will keep you in a game regardless if you?re having a poor shooting night.

We had some good hitting out there. Our defense is going to be much improved.