Famous Quotes & Sayings

How this ended is how the season went all year. I think it's perfect it ends this way with the defense stepping up.

I couldn't be more proud of two guys (Clore and Dahn) and the defense they played.

I couldn't be happier with our performance. It starts with defense and ours was superb tonight. I thought we were hurt off their dribble penetration, but we made adjustments at halftime and were ready for it in the second half. And we were great around the basket. I think we got to nearly every loose ball.

Rich Rodriguez

I don't mind them being proud. The motivating factor is to play well and execute and win the game. I hope our defense plays as well as it has the rest of the year. If they do, we will be a good team.

I don't like getting tackled by the first guy. It gets the defense trying to gang-tackle and that opens other things up.

Jacques Chirac

National Missile Defense is of a nature to retrigger a proliferation of weapons, notably nuclear missiles. Everything that goes in the direction of proliferation is a bad direction.

Kara Lawson

By fouling it took us out of a lot of things that we excel in. We weren't able to get as many transition opportunities that we would have hoped for. We weren't able to get our defense going and turn out some turnovers. I think it hurts our overall team flow, yes, but as individuals it's not too hard to get into the flow. We just have to get better defensively.

By far we are already a better defense with those signings. On paper we're a good defense. We'll see when we get out on the field. That remains to be seen.

Jamaal Charles

Hopefully, I proved I have the heart for the game. Their defense didn't come at us fast, like our defense does in practice.

Home wins are huge, no doubt about it. We got excellent contributions from everybody at some point in the game and I was obviously pleased with our defense at the end. Phoenix is a tough team to defend.

Honestly I don't think that will happen just because of the way our team is. We realize that our strength is on defense and in order for us to win games, we have to shut teams down. In practice (Monday) we really concentrated on stopping their stuff as opposed to running ours.

He threw well. He threw only 87 pitches through six innings, and he used his defense well.

Bobby Cox

He's way over everybody else when it comes to defense, ... I'm a big defense guy. It helps the pitching. I hate to give that up.

The leadership of the Defense Department is OK. The secretary is OK.

The last four minutes, we buckled down and played really good (man-to-man) defense, and we got some key buckets. A year ago we probably wouldn't have finished this game. Now we're finishing games.

Terrell Davis

The Jets' defense is a little small, but they're very quick and talented.

James Taranto

The Swift Boat Veterans for Truth disputed whether John Kerry deserved some of his five medals. A large part of Kerry's defense was an appeal to the authority of veterans who supported him-one of whom has now been revealed to have received a medal he doesn't deserve. This doesn't prove the Kerry detractors were right, but it certainly doesn't weaken their case.

James Madison

The right of the citizens to bear arms in defense of themselves and the state shall not be questioned.

Kevin Mawae

The depressing thing is we're not playing up to our capabilities. We're not a very good offensive football team right now, and if we want to win some games, we better start helping our defense out.

&#8220We haven't seen defense like that in years.

All of our pitchers have been throwing really well. We've been focusing on throwing strikes. That's what our pitchers have been doing, letting our defense make plays.

All the primary defense witnesses will have credibility problems.

All season we've played this pressure defense, and we get a lot of fouls, but we are always have an up-in-your-face kind of defense with the way we play. It's just scrappy and defense wins our games.

And defensively we did OK with that. We gave up one unearned run in that game. That wasn't a situation where the defense let us down.

Henry James

One doesn't defend one's god: one's god is in himself a defense.

John Adams

National defense is one of the cardinal duties of a statesman.

Rick Reynolds

The elephant in the living room for us is the huge number of seats and the emptiness for great concerts. ... The symphony has to look out for itself. That's what we the trustees are there for. Right now, our first line of defense is a renovation with reduction of seating.

The guys were real happy with their first win. The defense did a real nice job. They had fourth and short yardage five times, and we stopped them four times.

Brian Elliott

The guys in front of me have been unreal lately. I can't say enough about the way we're playing defense right now.

The first time we played them their defense really took us out of what we wanted to do. Tonight I thought our kids responded to their pressure by taking it to the basket. We didn't have any fear tonight and that may have been the difference. There was a fear factor the first time around, but I didn't see any fear tonight.

The first seven or eight minutes, we dug ourselves a hole. We called a timeout and went to a man-to-man defense and did a much better job than in the zone. We settled down and started to hit some shots.

The first half, especially, we couldn't run our offense. They were pressuring us and we couldn't respond. Their defense killed us.

Jussi Jokinen

The first period was very good for us. We got two big goals and we had good defense in the third period. It was a big win for us.