Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Gottfried

I think teams have done a good job of defending him a little better. And he's not Superman. He's human. He's going to struggle from time to time. That's just part of it. He'll be fine.

We're still the defending state champions, and we're not going to go quietly in any game.

We got the momentum (after the first goal). We always had the better of the play, but (Braden River) was defending good. I tell you, (Braden River) next year is going to have a really good team. It's a new school that is just starting off. But they battled really well and never gave up.

Kara Lawson

We hadn't seen Seattle in a long time and they are the defending champs, the team with the title. We were excited about matching up with them to see what we could do.

I've spent my life defending the Net, and I do feel that if we don't fight online crime, we are running a risk of losing it all.

Drew Miller

We're defending champs, we want to repeat and the pressure is on us to get to the finals and win it again.

We're defending a league championship for the third straight year. Any time you're doing that, everyone's gunning for you.

We especially got hurt on the defensive boards. (Zion) had a lot of put-backs. We did a good job initially defending them, but then we let them have too many second and third shots.

Steve Collins

We are the defending champions. It's yours until you lose it. Make them come and take it.

We played them to shoot 27 percent by completely defending the paint. Once they started raining 3's, it put our game plan right in the garbage.

We had good weak-side help. Antonio did a good job of defending him. That's where it is really valuable having a player like Antonio. Nobody can shut down Taylor - we can limit him. We'll be successful like we were tonight.

That was one of my goals this week, come in and not give up any points. There's going to be extra pressure (being a defending champion) but I'll be taking it like I have on the other matches. I have to step it up next week.

That was part of it, but we gave a great defensive effort, as well. We only gave up 19 points in the second half. So I thought we did a better job defending and rebounding.

Chris Coleman

I was bitterly disappointed with the defending for the second goal. You can't defend like that - home or away - and expect to get a result.

We can't enjoy this for very long. They're the defending champs until someone unseats them.

Bobby Jones

It doesn't matter that we've never seen the family. They lost someone defending our freedom, and we owe them more gratitude than we can ever give them. We're really happy to be able to do this.

We did a pretty good job of defending them all night.

Charles Gregory

We did a poor job of executing tonight. But Wilson did a good job of defending our shooters and putting pressure on the ball.

We did a good job defending and a good job rebounding the ball, but we just had a lot of shots that went halfway down and out.

We had some big matches with our seniors and we held our own. The three that won tonight were defending state champs and wrestled like state champs should.

We had shots, but they weren't falling. We were defending pretty good, but we just weren't making shots.

That's all we've been doing, defending and rebounding. We had carryover from practice.

As far as preparations go this week, we're going to spend as much time defending the pass as we do the rush.

Michael Leunig

As a cartoonist, I am not interested in defending the dominant, the powerful, the well-resourced and the well-armed because such groups are usually not in need of advocacy, moral support or sympathetic understanding; they have already organised sufficient publicity for themselves and prosecute their points of view with great efficiency.

Dave Wannstedt

No question, we've seen it all. There's nothing in there we won't have seen. But as a defensive coach, you can't worry about defending ghosts. You can talk all you want about a team and the way they do things, but it comes down to what gets done on the field,

Jim Crace

English politics is so much more concerned with the proprieties than with defending dogmas.

Brad Soderberg

Our deficiency as 3-point shooters showed up, badly. When that happens, there is a domino effect. Once we quit making our shots from the perimeter, they stop defending us. Then our No. 1 threat, which is Ian, just gets locked down. Ian did not get a shot at the basket.

They were just quicker at every position. And that gave us trouble. They were the better team. They showed why they are the defending national champions.

They're the defending (tournament) champs. We've seen them and they're not a 12 seed.

They played like they were the defending national champions. They are difficult to defend and they execute extremely well.

They are defending the NAIA national champion. We better be ready. They are going to come at us.

Mario Llosa

they are defending the little power that they have left.

There were possessions were it seemed like we were defending 90 seconds in a row.