Famous Quotes & Sayings

Martin O'Neill

It's exciting stuff at the moment. We're scoring goals but the way we're defending means we're needing three and four goals to win games,

It wasn't pretty at all. We were trying to dig ourselves out of a hole all night. We had a hard time defending people and a hard time making shots. It was just one of those nights.

Nomar Garciaparra

It was something new every time I turned around that season. Ultimately, you don't have the energy to keep defending yourself, but at this point I don't want to rehash it. I've moved on and they've moved on.

Marvin Hier

Every (Holocaust) survivor in the world walked a little taller and felt a little more secure because Simon Wiesenthal was out there defending their honor and the honor of their loved ones who perished.

Defending the home field is very important. Last year, we started winning (at home) and we're trying to keep that going.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Defending a free and open global Internet requires a broad-based global movement with the stamina to engage in endless - and often highly technical - national and international policy battles.

The schedule says we have to play Burlington first, and there's nothing you can do about that. They are the defending Middlesex League champs, with a great program and great players and coaches, and I think this game will have great implications on how the Middlesex League turns out.

Danny Smith

We tried zone, we tried man, we just struggled defending inside. I don't know, he's a good player and they did a good job getting him open and getting him the ball.

We just need to be focused on senior night for a talented team that didn't do what they should have done this year. We need to take our defense to a new level. (Tonight) is going to be a little more of a challenge. Rather than defending good systems, we'll be defending good athletes.

We just followed the game plan. Defending those guys is just a total team effort.

We simply are defending all people's faith and their right to free expression with their faith.

The family did everything right in terms of defending the child. They used rocks and sticks and screamed at the cat.

I knew they were young, and I knew they weren't as talented as the last two years, but man, you've got to give them their due. Two-time defending state champs, it just feels good. It feels good. But our work's not over and the girls have to understand that. Feel good tonight and come ready to work tomorrow. This was a big hurdle for us.

Rashard Lewis

Everybody can play defense. We're just not defending right now. We need to communicate on defense, help each other.

Larry Craig

It's not terribly fun defending you, but I do.

It's nice to have an impact player like that but it's a double-edged sword because if you rely on it too much you can become kind of one dimensional. If other teams see that and focus on defending him, it forces us to find other ways to score.

This is what we've worked all this time for. We've been looking forward to defending our division title for a year. We've been working towards this since last December, and now it's here. It's a new beginning.

Paul Houston

This kind of thing distracts energy and resources for defending yourself. Sometimes there are important precedents to be set, but sometimes people are just trying to have their way with the districts.

They really took it to us. They are a very quick-hitting team. They do a terrific job running a full-court offense. ... We had a heck of a time defending it. They kept us on the move faster than we could do our fundamentals.

John Tavares

They're a hot team and the defending champions. So we have a lot to prove.

If you think about it, teams are going to be gunning for us every time we take the field. We're the defending champions, and we're going to be have to be ready to play every night.

I don't like the fact that we are 0-1, but I think we found out we have a good football team today. They are the defending champs and a very good football team.

His main thing was that we are not defending anything because we don't have a title. We won that last year.

I just told them we are three-time defending league champs and to be very, very proud of that. As painful as this is, we shouldn't lose sight of that accomplishment.

It was a very poor first half. We were just defending all the time and we were told that we had to play more and put them under pressure in the second half and we did that very well.

It's a good tournament. We won it last year for the first time, so we're looking forward to defending our title.

It's an interesting dichotomy, ... We know we're the defending state champ, so we've got to be ready for that.

They did a good job of defending me. They played me tough the whole game. I didn't know I had scored 15 points. I am just glad we won the game.

They held their composure. They hit their free throws. They hit the big shots when they had to. That's why they're the defending national champions.

Tom Coughlin

They just threw the ball, and we had difficulty with their receivers. We had trouble defending it without a doubt.

It was a fun game. A great atmosphere. This team has a great mentality about defending its home court.

Terrell Owens

It was just a difference of opinion, ... I was defending myself.

It's going to be a tough game. They're defending 4A state champs, and they've got a player who is a handful. So we'll come up with something.