Famous Quotes & Sayings

Donald Rumsfeld

reminding participants of the sacrifices of this generation and of each previous generation that have so successfully defended our freedoms.

The allegations are entirely without merit and will be defended vigorously.

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.

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.

Jimmie Johnson

I thought if I could get to the outside of Matt, I had a shot. But as soon as I got outside him going into the first turn, the tires started chattering and I knew I could have a problem. Once I knew I couldn't get past him to the outside, I defended second.

I don't know about my defense, but as a team we defended really well.

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.

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.

I have always defended a title on the PGA Tour and I am greatly disappointed I won't be able to do so in Boston.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Mahatma Gandhi

one needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended gainst the heaviet odds

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.

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.