Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

That killed us. They rebounded incredibly well tonight and defended incredibly well tonight. We missed some shots early and let down on defense.

It's nice to have an impact player like that but it's a double-edged sword because if you rely on it too much you can become kind of one dimensional. If other teams see that and focus on defending him, it forces us to find other ways to score.

It's so difficult to defend them. They are so talented.

It's not going to be something where we stop and chat. I want them focused - that this is it. . . . We're walking down there to defend our ground.

Roger Federer

It's not for sure I'm going to finish No 1 in the world. I've still got to play well and defend my titles and make sure I play well. So I have a lot to play for next few months.

Everyone is always out to get the No. 1 seed. Now my girls have a new role. It teaches them to defend what they earned.

Everyone always talks about (a lack of) size being a disadvantage. Size doesn't matter if you know how to play, know how to use your skills, know where your deficiencies are and try to hide them. It's the same with a 6-3 kid who's slow and can't defend someone on the perimeter.

Elbert Hubbard

A woman can defend her virtue from men much more easily than she can protect her reputation from women

A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom.

Billy Donovan

That's generally a recipe for disaster, but because we defended the 3-point line that gave us an opportunity.

Bess made a great play. She got inside her defender and had a good finish. It takes a lot for a freshman to play. She really stepped it up.

Tommy Davis

Everything I've learned in my life, I like to share with others, ... It's good for discipline and respect, and I think everyone needs to know how to defend themselves.

Even Johnson doesn't defend like that. They're just so quick and they can defend off the dribble so well. They used their speed and got in our faces.

Everyone will look at the last shot that didn't go for us that would've won it. But we lost the game in the last four minutes when we couldn't defend or get that big rebound to keep them at arm's length.

Didier Drogba

Every game is getting more difficult. Every team respects us more and defends more, looks only for the counter-attack, tries to reduce the time of the game, and fights with their strengths to make everything difficult.

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.

It's their flagship drug and makes them a lot of money. They're going to defend it as much as they can and promote it as much as they can.

Geoff Ogilvy

It's like a double defense. It's very cool. I get to defend Tucson a year later and this in the same week.

He's the kind of kid that could make a defender miss in a phone booth.

Kate Michelman

He's a perfectly fine person, but not someone we can trust to defend our rights, not at all. If that upsets the political establishment, so be it.

Gary's a good defender with a potentially great defensive disposition,

Rasual Butler

I want be someone that they know will defend them, ... They're all one-on-one players who come at you every night.

I've got to think he's going to defend himself and be combative and angry. I don't think it will be particularly effective, but he will be one of the most interesting witnesses.

Roy Williams

I'm over there screaming my head off one time ... 'Move, move, move. It's easier to defend a guy when the other four guys are standing there stationary ... they can run in there and make it difficult.

Annika Sorenstam

I'm just going to keep on grinding. I've had success at the Office Depot tournament and hope to defend my title there.

Annika Sorenstam

I'm just going to keep on grinding, ... I've had success at the Office Depot tournament and hope to defend my title there.

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

determined to do the right thing, but in a pragmatic way. We defended human rights.

As far as preparations go this week, we're going to spend as much time defending the pass as we do the rush.

Mo Johnston

As a team, we defended very well. Obviously the fans would have liked maybe three or four goals but tonight it just wasn't the case.

Newt Gingrich

As a test of the homeland security system, this was a failure. It's important for the president to lead the nation in saying -- and he has already said -- that this is unacceptable. This is not a moment to defend inadequacy. It's a moment to respond very aggressively to human suffering and establish a vision of a more secure, more prosperous Gulf Coast.

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.