Famous Quotes & Sayings

They don't know who's going to get the ball, and then somebody's going in motion on every play, so that misdirection really throws them off. We have so many ways to disguise our plays, so the defense can never really tell what we're doing.

They had a very hard time with our defense in the second half.

Mike Burns

They do a great job of pressuring people defensively. And their defense is designed to just jam up everything and take you out of any sort of pattern. Under those circumstances, you've got to be sound with the dribble, sound with the pass, and sound with the catch. And for stretches we were 0-for-3 in that department.

Lindy Ruff

They dumped the puck in religiously. They had our defense going back for the puck all night. When we had the puck, we did them a favor by turning the puck over.

They are so quick. You hear about the offense but I thought their defense was the key to the game.

Janet Reno

This merger isn't just about dollars and cents, ... It's about winning wars and saving lives. We want to insure that any defense merger protects our soldiers' lives and our taxpayers' wallets.

Gerhard Schroder

As far as missile defense is concerned, a very thorough consultation process is underway.

Jacques Chirac

National Missile Defense is of a nature to retrigger a proliferation of weapons, notably nuclear missiles. Everything that goes in the direction of proliferation is a bad direction.

Chris Johnson

I've still never gotten behind the defense and been caught.

Jeff Cooper

Anyone who is aware of his environment knows that the peril of physical assault does exist, and that it exists everywhere and at all times.

Jeff Cooper

The best personal defense is an explosive counterattack.

George F. Kennan

The nuclear bomb is the most useless weapon ever invented. It can be employed to no rational purpose. It is not even an effective defense against itself.

If he responds, great. If he doesn't, those minutes are going to be hard to get. We can't play defense without urgency and tough-mindedness.

I couldn't tell you, I don't know. The kids are playing hard and the kids are playing good defense. I'm real pleased right now.

I do think their defense was good. I don't think it should have been anything that rattled us.

J. J. Johnson

I'd rather be a combo because it keeps the defense guessing, ... They never know what's going to happen.

I don't see why we should not invite (U.S. Defense Secretary) Donald Rumsfeld, (British Foreign Secretary) Jack Straw, (EU foreign policy chief) Javier Solana, and other foreign and defense ministers.

I am very sorry, ... I'm without excuse; I have no defense for what I did. I feel terrible.

Maurice Cheeks

I am not going to get upset over Johnny taking shots. I did say the next time he has that opportunity to drive the basketball. We were in the penalty, so drive the ball, maybe get a foul, or the defense collapses and kick it out.

Controlling them up front, they make it extremely easy for our linebackers because of the quickness and strength that they have. They dominate the line of scrimmage for the rest of our defense and it make it easier for all of them.

Another good start with great passing, movement and defense. Our defense has been good and our team play has been solid.

Bobby Frasor

Ever since that game, I've tried to play tough defense in practice. Defense wins games.

Early on, our defense was a little suspect. But in the second half, they were hitting some pretty tough shots.

Drew has to be the offensive leader for us. But what I was happiest about was how strong he was on defense and how well he killed penalties.

E. B. White

D-Y has great skill-position people, which means our defense is going to have to come up big for the second week in a row.

During this part of an investigation, all the defense can do is wait to see what develops with final charges.

Tommy Bowden

Duane is too good of a player to sit on the bench, ... He practices extremely hard. We want to move him to defense in an effort to get him on the field.

Early in the half we did a good job of holding them off. We did enough on defense to keep them from scoring.

Erin definitely kept us in the game. There was a point in the first 10 minutes that I thought it could be really ugly, but she had some big saves. Erin and the defense did enough to keep us competitive.

Eureka really stepped up its defense tonight. They did a great job taking us out of our offensive set and we weren't able to get many open looks and started falling behind.

Everything we could have wanted out of Clegg, we got. I wish we could have gotten him the win, but we didn't play good enough defense to hold it.

Everything was going for us tonight. The spark was there. We've lived on our defense the whole year and we feel really good about having that kind of (defensive) reputation. It's all our coach. He pushes us in practice every day and it's awesome. I love it. ... And look where it's got us.

Everything has been real positive so far. The defense played well and the offense made some big plays.