Famous Quotes & Sayings

When you are attacked, you need to defend yourself. The same way I would defend constituents in Washington.

Oren Peli

The thing I find really scary about ghosts and demons is that you don't really know what they are or where they are. They're not very well understood. You don't know what they want from you. So it's the kind of thing you don't even know how to defend yourself against. Anything that's unknown and mysterious is very scary.

William Beveridge

Scratch a pessimist and you find often a defender of privilege.

Brian Finneran

We're doing OK, I guess, ... But if one of us went down, not many people outside our team would even notice. For the Patriots to lose guys like Rodney Harrison and Tedy Bruschi is huge, but everyone knows they're the defending champs for a reason.

There is more happening today in the urban and developed part of New Jersey than has happened in the last several decades. A lot of that is in part because of the success of defending the environment out in the hinterland.

We played well as group; defensively, to hold them to three points when it mattered - and they have some weapons in that spread offense - thought we defended it real well.

We played 60 minutes. We defended with energy and we played with urgency.

We play defense, but we don't specifically play to defend the 26-foot 3-pointer, and they hit some of those.

We will defend ourselves, and we have full rights to do so. If the authorities try to destroy us, we have the right to rise up. Sooner or later this will happen.

I thought we had it defended very well before the shot. All of a sudden he had some separation from our defensive players.

John Brady

I thought we had Steele defended OK until the last seven or eight minutes.

I thought they did a nice job defending us, but we weren't hitting our shots. When you miss shots and they respond with baskets on the other end, the lead evaporates quickly.

I thought the second half we played harder. We executed a little better and we defended a little better.

I thought that we defended it well. That's what seniors like her will do to you.

I think we're all a little shocked right now the way that game just ended. It's a great feeling to be up 3-1 on the defending National League champions, but we've still got a long way to go.

I think we have defended those real well this year. They are a good team, and we should give them a good game.

John Calipari

I think we defended pretty well. We just couldn't make a basket. Please make a basket, make a free throw, anything. Kick one in.

I think we need to do a better job of defending all their screens they set to get those two open.

I think we hit a wall. I thought we were defending pretty well in the first half, and I just think there was nothing left.

I think we wore down a bit. It's tough to bang, rebound, defend and score. It took its toll on us. Plus, TJ stepped their game up.

I think back now, it's like nothing was going through my mind. Somebody swung at me and my natural reaction was to fight back. I'm not a violent person, I'm far from it. But I also work hard for what's mine and I'm going to defend it.

Mike Murphy

We actually played pretty well. We shot 53 percent from the field and I thought we defended real well. The issue really is that Southwest 71 percent from the field, and that's to their credit. Our kids responded and took every punch. I was proud of how they responded.

Lindy Ruff

We're a team that goes after it. We're going to play our style. It's all about what we want to do and get them to try to defend us.

We're excited about getting ready to play in the Big South. I think it's going to be another great run. We're ready, hopefully, to defend our title.

Condoleezza Rice

We understand that the Israelis have to defend themselves. It's just extremely important that the Israelis also keep in mind the long view here.

We've got to defend the run, defend the Wing-T and put them into long-yardage situations so they have to throw.

We've got to defend better. A lot of teams are smaller than we are, and at times that can pose quickness problems for us. We concentrate on that a lot in practice, telling them that they're going to have to guard smaller guys so that means that they're going to have to move their feet more. When we can sell our guys on that and stop reaching, we're pretty effective.

Jamie Dixon

We've got to defend and guard the perimeter. There's no secret there. Everybody knows that.

We've just got to make better plays at the end, and we've got to defend better in the future.

We've hit upon a raw patriotic nerve in Americans searching for a way to identify with those who are supporting and defending our freedoms.

With solid fuel, the missiles can be launched more quickly. The surprise element increases and they are much more difficult to defend against.

We need to defend our home field better. We talked about pride and defending our home turf and getting ready for a big week next week. Hopefully this game will be a springboard to next week.

We must be happy with the outcome because Rennes played a pretty good match tonight. They stopped us playing our way by defending well.