Famous Quotes & Sayings

When I got the ball, I turned in my shoulder and I didn't imagine a defender on me. I practice that shot every day. I just took my time and made it.

Timothy Noah

What I've learned, and will try to remember from now on, is that defending your country's credibility is never sufficient reason to fight a war.

John Whisenant

She can come in and defend our opponent's guards, especially their point guards.

Jack Warner

She has a good shot. She's gonna be stressed a little bit, but the plan is for her to go out and defend her title.

Since they won't tell him what he did, it's impossible for him to defend himself.

Six of our starters got their first varsity start, and that's a lot. They defended their territory like they should have ... for a young team it's a pretty cohesive unit, but, we found out we still have a lot to work on too.

Mike Williamson

Mike has really developed into a guy where if you need a goal, you have him in on the ice and the same when you are defending the lead. He plays in all situations and provides leadership in the dressing room. He logs a ton of ice time.

Ivica Dacic

Milosevic did not die in The Hague, he was killed in The Hague. But, he had managed to defend the national and state interests of Serbia and the Serb people, and everybody should be grateful to him for that.

We're playing hard; we're scratching, we're fighting and I thought we defended really, really solid. Offensively we're really, really struggling right now.

We're playing hard. I thought we rebounded and defended hard. But offensively, we're really struggling.

Corey Parker

We really emphasize how big these Western Division games are. We are the Western Division champs and we want to come out here and defend our title. So we wanted to come out here and play this game strong and we did.

We held Isaiah to six (in the first half) and all of a sudden these other guys come out of nowhere. We have to defend every player on the court.

We held Diggs to 16 points, so we did a good job on him, but that Dykstra has one of the prettiest shots I have ever seen. I felt like we defended him pretty well, but he scored 29 points, so I guess I can't say we held him down.

We were defending a lot better as a team, rebounding better as a team and the tempo was in our favor.

Shalrie Joseph

We were celebrating a little and they took it personally, and I don't know why. This game wasn't about soccer, it was about who wanted it the most. People were sliding all over the park. We wanted to have more possession in the second half but they defended well and we had to dig deep.

Liberty plays so hard. They run hard, they rebound hard, they post defend hard. If you have poise, you give yourself a better chance.

Many indigenous groups are very well organized, and they are also willing to use force to defend their lands.

Kim Yuna

Many people talk about winning two straight gold medals, but I'm not focusing on defending the title.

She's that quiet force on a team. Her presence never shows up in statistics as much as we felt it on the court. I think she was one of the top defenders in the state.

She's a team player. She goes for everything and puts it all out on the floor. I hate to take her off the court, but we have some strong defenders and we have to play to our strengths.

She's faster than everybody else. I don't think there are a lot of teams who have as good of forwards as we do. Everybody knows that and they defend for that, and we still score on them.

The World Trade Organization is an organization that defends trade interests. I think the problem is less that they exist. The problem is that internationally we've only got an organization that protects trade interests. Surely we need some kind of counterweight to protect human rights and the environment, too.

Cristiano Ronaldo

One rule that will work if it is used everywhere, is that when you have a free-kick, the referee puts the mark on the floor to make sure the defenders keep their distance.

We did what we had to do tonight; we had to defend the home court. The pressure was on us. (Clarke coach) Jon (Davison) knew he had a step and a half up on the league if they come in and get that win tonight.

We did watch (the tapes) to see how they defended us and what we did that was successful.

Iris Murdoch

We defend ourself with descriptions and tame the world by generalizing

Bill Evans

We defended well, but we don't play up-and-down. They had 58 possessions and we only had 51. The games we play are usually (between 52 and 55).

We defended very well. If we had shot our free throws better, it wouldn't have been this close.

We defended Roeder very well. We held him to no field goals in the second half. But we put them on the line too much.

We defended real well on the last shot, but their kid hit a nice shot. It was a heck of a game. Our kids played hard.

We defended really, really well. We can be a pretty good team if we can make a few shots.

We defended pretty well all night. Our defense kept us within range. What Ted, Jacques, Derrick and Taylor (Pratt) did in the first half gave us hope and kept us close.

Mike Woodson

We defended it right up until the end. I think we made proper switches on their last sets and we were able to get the stop when we needed it.