Bob Thomason Quotes
His defense and rebounding have been terrific. I've never seen him rebound the way he has during this stretch.
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Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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The defense of marriage is the defense of freedom. Neither of which is obsolete.
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Quakers are terrific.
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A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.
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For me, training is my meditation, my yoga, hiking, biking all rolled into one. Wake up early in the morning, generally around 4 o'clock, and I'll do my cardio on an empty stomach. Stretch, have a big breakfast, and then I'll go train.
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Doomsday is quite within our reach, if we will only stretch for it.
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With the comeback of the 3-4 defense, like with Ray Lewis in Baltimore, they've had to learn to play a totally different game. And nobody plays all the time, so obviously they aren't going to have the same impact.
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I know we got guys in here who can get it done, because it happens on some nights. But it doesn't happen in others. This has to start with me, because I am our top offensive player. If I can send the message about playing defense, then I'm pretty sure everyone else will follow.
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We've got to stop worrying about the offense, too. Our biggest concern should be our defense.
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... the habit of literature [is] the best defense against believing the half-truths of ideologues and the lies of demagogues.
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But in my defense, I knew enough about her to know I wanted to know everything else; I knew as much about her as she wanted me to know; I knew as much about her as anyone ever knows about anyone. And isn't love just curiosity at the beginning anyway?
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It'll be fun, obviously. But I'm really competing against the Indianapolis defense. It'll be exciting and something you always remember because it's the first time we'll ever compete against each other.
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"He who wants to protect everything, protects nothing," is one of the fundamental rules of defense.
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I would like to say in defense of the Christian religion that there are nice things about it. There really are. And Marilyn can tear up the Bible all he wants and I understand why, but... there's good things in the Bible. Good things. Like about, you know, not killing people, and... you know... not sleeping with people's husbands.
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We want to get him into that 36-minute mark somewhere going down the stretch here.
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It was a game where our rebounds and defense really failed us and eventually, I had to think about an offensive unit that could do some things to try and catch up. Kobe obviously wasn't right tonight, but this is the second time Blake has scored big against us in critical situations.
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Blood and gore loses its cartoon defense. If you think we've got problems now, you'll see we have additional problems once the cartoon defense goes away.
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She really did change the game because we were not able to get a '55' defense. I thought the difference was her being able to extend the defense at full-court level.
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I look at how we got beat and I thought the hustle points and the energy points were all gauged through offensive rebounds. I thought in the second half they got so many second-chance opportunities they could really run. It just seemed like they were going up our guys' backs. When you don't get any offensive rebounds and they start going the other team's way, it's almost like a snowball effect.
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relationships. That's all there really is. There's your relationship with the dust that just blew in your face, or with the person who just kicked you end over end. ... You have to come to terms, to some kind of equilibrium, with those people around you, those people who care for you, your environment.
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Where combination is possible, competition is impossible.
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His defense and rebounding have been terrific. I've never seen him rebound the way he has during this stretch.
