Famous Quotes & Sayings

When you score that little in a fourth quarter, it's usually part defense and part just missing some shots.

Charles Tillman

Defense is on the fly, it's reactive; you have to react to the offense. I have to prevent someone from doing something when they want to do it.

Benjamin Netanyahu

We are using missile defense to protect our civilians, and they're using their civilians to protect their missiles.

Bob Barr

Firearms manufacturers usually find themselves playing defense.

Bill Walton

When you intercept the ball with your stomach, that is great defense

Pete Carroll

Watching the film, I didn't think that would happen because they play such great pass defense and they're so aggressive. But Matt was on fire.

We've always made it a point to be strong from the goal out. Defense is always a priority, but these kids have offensive talent that can't be denied.

We've always felt like our defense was one of the stronger points of our game. Our goal was to have a hand in their face for the full 94 feet of the floor and that would hopefully take away some of their shooting ability.

We're making game-changing plays. We've got a defense full of playmakers. We feel like if we play our game, we're always going to have somebody in the right spot.

We're going to try and slow them down some-you just don't stop those kind of people. You just give them different disguises on defense and try to keep them guessing.

We're going to take a look at the entire scope of our responsibilities in the Department of Defense and determine what is it that we can or should be doing better, differently, more of, less of.

We're going to go as far as our defense takes us. They don't want to let each other down and just feed off each other.

John Beilein

When we don't get turnovers, we can't win. We had just enough late to hold on to the lead by playing tight defense and swarming the ball. We really dug out some ugly rebounds tonight.

When we do hit, like today, we just don't play defense. We haven't put together a solid game of pitching, hitting and defense in God-knows how long. It's killing us.

Todd Heap

When we get a lead like that of 10 points, the defense can sit back and play the way they want to play. When they're able to do that, they're a lot more dangerous.

Lawrence Frank

We had 10 straight empty possessions. We missed a ton of open shots, and that puts a ton of pressure on the defense. It was a combination of their No. 1 scoring defense and us missing a lot of uncontested shots.

Brandon Wallace

We felt like the defense put us in a position to win. But at the end we had another let down. The guy had an open shot and made it.

We felt like from the start of the game, that (Rice) was a team that we could beat. ... If we played hard on defense for 25, 30 minutes, we could have won this game.

Mike Scioscia

What's really been impressive is to see his work ethic and how much his defense has picked up. We're really excited about that part.

Jim Tressel

What's most important is that the quarterback takes what the defense gives and not make up his mind before maybe which it's going to be,

We're going to hear from the defense about her background, her mental health, whether she's ever had sex before,

John Scofield

We're going to have to stick to this budget. We're going to have to reduce the defense transfer and we're going to have to drop the gimmicks. That's our starting point and ending point.

We're going to have to be ready to play because it looks like Denver's got a really good team up there. I think they have a better defense than Mississippi State does, so it will be a big challenge.

Flip Saunders

We're doing a lot of good things on defense and that's how we're winning as many games as we are.

Benjamin Franklin

Innocence is its own defense.

Ben Bernanke

To avoid large and unsustainable budget deficits, the nation will ultimately have to choose among higher taxes, modifications to entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare, less spending on everything else from education to defense, or some combination of the above.

Yea, that was typical of how we have played all year. We like to play solid defense and rebound the basketball. That's how we win games.

We're going to be very solid on defense. The secondary is going to have to lead the defense because that is where we have the most seniors. I'm expecting great things back there, and I hope it will rub off on the other players. This is my senior season, and I'm ready. It's what a player dreams of.

We feed off each other, ... The offense makes some plays, and then the defense makes some plays. The offense was able to set the tone.

We feel the defense was a successful one.

Ryan Suter

We're finally starting to tighten up and realize that defense wins games this time of year. It's good to take the load off Tomas because he's worked his butt off all year.

We're finally getting to the point that we want to play at. We're pitching, playing solid defense and getting some timely hits.

Chuck Hagel

We're isolating ourselves in the world ... And I think that the leadership of the Pentagon has done that in many ways to us, ... This issue of a secretary of defense not personally signing these letters is just astounding.