Famous Quotes & Sayings

We stand with other Texans in defending Texas as a good place to live.

We're getting a lot of guys involved. That's important. We're defending teams as well as we have all year.

Hugo Chavez

Venezuela is used to defending itself ... and fighting imperialism,

We're not defending like we usually do. It's putting us in a position where we all have to score the ball, because we're not getting stops. We're not defending at all. That's been our motto. That's our identity. We defend, and we get stops.

Rodney Harrison

We're not defending anything, because we don't have anything. (This) is a new season, just like 2005 is a new season for the Raiders.

We're not defending and offensively we don't play together. Those are the two things that define us at this point.

Chris Mooney

We had a very hard time defending La Salle. We emphasize our offense so much, maybe we're not spending enough time on defense. We want to get back to being one of the better defensive teams and shut people down.

Timothy Noah

What I've learned, and will try to remember from now on, is that defending your country's credibility is never sufficient reason to fight a war.

Mike Williamson

Mike has really developed into a guy where if you need a goal, you have him in on the ice and the same when you are defending the lead. He plays in all situations and provides leadership in the dressing room. He logs a ton of ice time.

We were defending a lot better as a team, rebounding better as a team and the tempo was in our favor.

Kim Yuna

Many people talk about winning two straight gold medals, but I'm not focusing on defending the title.

We didn't play our game at all, and we were still in the game at halftime. Our defense wasn't as good as it could have been. We didn't do a good job defending (Thompson).

We didn't do a very good job of defending dribble-drives tonight and I think we're better than that.

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.

Today we have seen who is defending human rights.

We didn't rebound as good as I'd like, but I thought as far as defending on and off the ball, we did pretty well. For the most part, it was a pretty good team effort.

Dan Wheldon

We're not too worried about it because you don't get points for qualifying. We know we've got a strong package and I'm looking forward to defending my win here and start the season off on the right foot.

People would say the pressure is on us, but I really feel like they're the defending champs right now. 'We're just going to go out there to have fun and play basketball.

One of the things about defending Drake is you have to defend them as a team.

Cedarville is the defending champ, and they've only lost one girl from that team. Danville is better than they were last year. Lavaca's a good young team.

Tony Snow

No president has looked this impotent this long when it comes to defending presidential powers and prerogatives.

Michelle Ryan

Obviously I'm not a violent person; I don't like violence, but I would definitely go into defending myself if the situation arose.

No fabricated resume can equal Mark Green's lifelong record of defending New Yorkers and working as the people's lawyer.

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.

I don't know a lot about Richmond. We just received film on them (on Thursday). They're defending champions, though, so we're taking them serious.

Lindsay Davenport

I am looking forward to getting healthy and defending my year-end number one ranking at the WTA Tour Championships,

Kevin did a good job. We also did well inside. We got good games from Cory Jordan and Jared King not necessarily scoring but defending inside so that we could spread out on the shooters.

Dennis Miller

Just put down 9/11... I think, on most things I'm liberal, except on defending ourselves and keeping half the money. Those things I'm kind of conservative on.

I think it did help her. She was in a heat with the defending state champion, and that really did help. She rose to the occasion.

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.

There is heavy shelling and movements of their aircraft. We are just responding and defending our positions.

There is extreme nervousness about November. The last thing that members want is to be out there in a tough campaign, where the wind is at your face, defending the indefensible.