Famous Quotes & Sayings

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 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?

Ernst Toller

Each had defended his own country; the Germans Germany, the Frenchmen France; they had done their duty.

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.

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'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.

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.

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

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.

We didn't do anything different than what we've done all year. We used a different defensive scheme, and we felt our defense defended their Wing-T successfully.

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.

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.

John Brady

We won the game because we defended, our press helped us and we got to the foul line and made free throws. I think because we defended pretty good the whole game, we got to the foul line.

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

Mahatma Gandhi

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.