Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mike Bass

I felt like we were ready, but this was one of those first games where everything that could go wrong, did. You're never thrilled to be opening your season with the defending state champion.

Bill Evans

I think the key to the game was the way we defended as much as anything. But any time you make shots, things become easier.

I think the hardest thing is to come in and learn all of our team principles on the defensive end. He's done a really good job and shown he can defend at this level, which means you can play. It doesn't matter if you can make shots if you can't defend; being a shooting guard at this level, you can't play.

I thought for twenty-four/twenty-five minutes we were really good. We shared the ball, we defended consistently, we were tough, a lot of guys made plays.

I think you're going to see a lot of defenders back-pedaling when Lee's got the ball. He's an exciting player.

It is great that I can go to a place where I can walk on the same ground of somebody that defended our country,

Mark Johnson

I was disappointed about the way we wrestled today. We had five guys in the finals and didn't get it done. We seemed to be satisfied with qualifying for nationals and not defending our title.

Paul Young

I thought we did excellent today. The first half was good, the second half, up and down. Overall I am glad for the victory, and we are in the semi-finals and hopefully we can move on to defend our title.

Norv Turner

I thought we did a lot of things in a physical manner. We defended the run well.

I thought we did a good job defensively, especially defending the 3-point arc.

I thought we defended well in the third quarter and ran our sets a lot better on offense.

I thought we defended that last possession very well.

Here is what I liked -- we rebounded and defended our butts off the whole game. We didn't make shots in the first half and that frustrated us. I wasn't concerned. I knew we'd come back in the second half. I just told our players that our (14,734) fans deserved a good performance.

Dick Morris

her right foot is nailed to the floor in having to defend the Iraq war.

Brent Scowcroft

His reaction was: 'Why would we want to be defended by you?'

Adam Scott

I expect myself to play well. I've never defended a title yet but it would be nice to do it this week, especially to give me my first win in Australia.

Billy Donovan

For us, it was a game we had to grind it out. It wasn't always our style of play. ... Tonight was about consecutive stops and defending the 3-point line. They shot 19 percent from the 3-point line and 39 percent from the field. That was the difference.

If we weren't scoring in transition we were having a heck of a time scoring. And if we didn't defend in our trap we had a heck of a time defending.

Hopefully, we come to play and we can defend our championship. Our team doesn't want it to end here.

We may have been a little nervous. Playing the defending state champs may have had something to do with it, and we had never been here before. We got off to a slow, sluggish start and never could get going, but they had a lot to do with that.

We must defend one another. The authorities are violating the law, they have organized large-scale repression.

Viktor Yushchenko

We must defend every chestnut tree, every tent. We must show to the authorities we are here for a long time.... There must be more and more of us here every hour.

We look at fall practice as an introduction to the personalities on our team and a way to get to know the people involved. We are also not trying to defend the National Championship, but instead going out and playing the game, which is a lot easier said than done. We are talking to the players about the importance of enjoying the process without feeling the external pressures of trying to live up to something.

Kelly Ayotte

Unfortunately, no matter how frivolous the lawsuit, you still, of course, have to pay people to defend you on it.

I wouldn't say yes or no to that. That's a maybe. The guy is not here to defend himself. I don't want to say anything.

I would have liked him to have put it up a few more times, but they also did a good job of defending him in the second half. He got us back in it in the first half.

If we're healthy and have everyone back, it's going to be a good match. Golden Valley is the defending champ, and they have everyone back, but they're beatable.

If they don't put Michael Heath on the defensive to make him explain why he's defending bigotry and hatred and discrimination, this is going to be all about marriage,

If we can make people defend the pass, if that's what we need to do run, then that's what it may be.

Allan Ray

If they try and play us big, one of the main things we're going to have to do is defend and get out there and rebound. That's one of the focal points this year is rebounding more than anything.

If we defend better and offensively get everybody else involved and looking to score we'll be all right. And definitely, we need to keep them off the offensive boards.

I have done something to defend myself and my race.

If we are forced, we are prepared to defend our position.