Famous Quotes & Sayings

We knew they liked to penetrate and dish off to the open shooter so we focused on stopping that. We defended them very well in the first half.

Hugo Chavez

Venezuelan interests are to be defended by Venezuela. The U.S. should defend the interests of the U.S. Where are the U.S. people, where are the intellectuals, who could put limits on their government?

Flip Saunders

The positive was we defended down the stretch. That's what we're going to have to do when playoff time comes.

We had a very difficult time there toward the end of the game getting the right stops. I thought we played good enough defense for the most part, but you have to give Duke a lot of credit. When the game's on the line, they made some real tough shots that were very well defended and that's what great players will do.

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.

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.

We defended horribly. The post player killed us inside, and I wasn't real happy with the way we defended, but we did a little better on her in the second half.

Todd Martin

We defended for 16 minutes as well as we can defend. We didn't do a whole lot of trapping. It was just solid, half-court, man-to-man defense. The kids did a great job.

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.

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.

Give (Liberty) credit. I thought they defended well. ... We were fortunate to win.

Give Johnson credit, they took it to us. They knocked us back on our heels and defended well.

Juan has been wanting to fight. If it was up to him, he would have defended his title three or four times in the past year instead of once.

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 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.

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

Norv Turner

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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 always defended him well because we've played him hard and tried not to take any plays off. The shot he hits at the end of the half (against Cincinnati) is a hustle play. You can't let that happen. You can't give him those kinds of baskets. He's going to get baskets enough times where you can't give him easy stuff.

Jeff Zucker

He didn't know if the man would back up and try and run him over, or whether he had a weapon, so he defended himself and hit the gentleman two times. Unfortunately, they were fatal blows.

This was a good win for us. I thought we did a really good job on the glass, and we defended well.

Larry Brown

I was thrilled. The young kids have been working hard and it shows. They played together well and they defended well, made some big plays and that's a reward in itself.

I was happy with the way the guys played tonight, they played hard, and I thought we defended well at times.