Famous Quotes & Sayings

When we do hit, like today, we just don't play defense. We haven't put together a solid game of pitching, hitting and defense in God-knows how long. It's killing us.

Todd Heap

When we get a lead like that of 10 points, the defense can sit back and play the way they want to play. When they're able to do that, they're a lot more dangerous.

Camille Paglia

Society is an artificial construction, a defense against nature's power.

Boomer Esiason

With this defense and the way that this division is right now, why not?

We're still pitching well, playing good defense and getting timely hitting but we're leaving too many men on base.

We're still making adjustments in personnel to get to where we want to be. But we need to play better defense, no matter who we've got out there. Our interior defense needs to improve. Our help defense needs to get after it, if we're going to get back to where we were last year.

We're still learning and trying to get better. We played better defense and didn't give anything away.

We're starting to play playoff hockey. Early in the season we were winning games 7-4, and you're not going to go very far in the playoffs if you're all offense. You've got to be able to play defense as well.

We're searching for chemistry. Our defense needs to come together, and they know that. I think they're going to work on that all week this week.

We've got a really solid defense out there and I don't have any worries about my defense. They get dirty, they get after the ball. They usually make routine plays very easily.

We've waited a long time for this. This year, what they do as a team played right into our hands. We took the middle away and played great defense throughout.

We've tried to redesign the defense a little bit.

Bertolt Brecht

Right is its own defense.

Benjamin Netanyahu

We are using missile defense to protect our civilians, and they're using their civilians to protect their missiles.

Bob Barr

Firearms manufacturers usually find themselves playing defense.

Bill Walton

When you intercept the ball with your stomach, that is great defense

We were definitely ready. (Friday) night we did not play our 'A' game by any means (in a 62-39 win over Denison). I thought our defense was superb.

Renee Taylor

We were hungry out there today. We played tough defense and it led to smooth transitions and quick scoring.

We'll be doing a lot of press-breaking work this week. We'll be scrimmaging ourselves and holding each other accountable, and we may work on some defense because those guys will be hard to guard man-to-man. We'll have pressure in our face for 32 minutes.

Lawrence Frank

We had 10 straight empty possessions. We missed a ton of open shots, and that puts a ton of pressure on the defense. It was a combination of their No. 1 scoring defense and us missing a lot of uncontested shots.

Brandon Wallace

We felt like the defense put us in a position to win. But at the end we had another let down. The guy had an open shot and made it.

We felt like from the start of the game, that (Rice) was a team that we could beat. ... If we played hard on defense for 25, 30 minutes, we could have won this game.

Mike Scioscia

What's really been impressive is to see his work ethic and how much his defense has picked up. We're really excited about that part.

Jim Tressel

What's most important is that the quarterback takes what the defense gives and not make up his mind before maybe which it's going to be,

We're going to hear from the defense about her background, her mental health, whether she's ever had sex before,

John Scofield

We're going to have to stick to this budget. We're going to have to reduce the defense transfer and we're going to have to drop the gimmicks. That's our starting point and ending point.

We're going to have to be ready to play because it looks like Denver's got a really good team up there. I think they have a better defense than Mississippi State does, so it will be a big challenge.

Flip Saunders

We're doing a lot of good things on defense and that's how we're winning as many games as we are.

Yea, that was typical of how we have played all year. We like to play solid defense and rebound the basketball. That's how we win games.

We're going to be very solid on defense. The secondary is going to have to lead the defense because that is where we have the most seniors. I'm expecting great things back there, and I hope it will rub off on the other players. This is my senior season, and I'm ready. It's what a player dreams of.

We feed off each other, ... The offense makes some plays, and then the defense makes some plays. The offense was able to set the tone.

We feel the defense was a successful one.

Ryan Suter

We're finally starting to tighten up and realize that defense wins games this time of year. It's good to take the load off Tomas because he's worked his butt off all year.