Defended Quotes

We're going to the final, that's the most important thing. Whether it was a goal or not, I'm sure people will comment on that, but we're happy we're going to Istanbul. Chelsea put us under pressure but we defended really well. - Steven Gerrard

We're a perimeter-oriented team, so anything we get down low is very helpful. They defended Kyle pretty well ? Brunswick is a good defensive team ? but Nick really came up with some big plays. - Joe Lynch

We won the game because we defended, our press helped us and we got to the foul line and made free throws. I think because we defended pretty good the whole game, we got to the foul line. - John Brady

We will miss him as a distinguished religious figure, who devoted his life to defending the values of peace, freedom and equality. He defended the rights of Palestinians, their freedom and independence. - Mahmoud Abbas

We were celebrating a little and they took it personally, and I don't know why. This game wasn't about soccer, it was about who wanted it the most. People were sliding all over the park. We wanted to have more possession in the second half but they defended well and we had to dig deep. - Shalrie Joseph

We tried to take advantage of Zimmer's height advantage thinking that one-on-one he would either get the shot off or get fouled but they defended it well. - Jay Karlins

We tried everything we could do. At times it looked like we had [Hester] all defended, we got him surrounded. It's a real struggle to get them to the ground because they're great athletes. - Bobby Wallace

We tell our kids, it's not baseball, you don't take turns. You get the ball to the guy who needs to get it. They defended us in a way to take away Scott and Rob (Hummel) and make other guys score. They didn't let us do what we wanted to do. - Bob Punter

We started off decent on offense with that first drive but we went down hill from there, ... They had a great defense. They covered our receivers well and defended the run well. They shut us down. - Blake Mitchell

We showed a lot of character to come right back, but in the second half we were poor defensively. We defended poorly on two set pieces and a cross, and we suffered the consequences. Credit Richmond. - Laurie Calloway