Althea Gibson
Althea Gibson

In sports, you simply aren't considered a real champion until you have defended your title successfully. Winning it once can be a fluke; winning it twice proves you are the best.

Amy Adams
Amy Adams

I was a pretty scrappy, tough kid; I got in all sorts of fights at school. I defended myself - boys didn't mess with me. But as one of seven children, you have to fight for everything anyway.

Andrew Sullivan
Andrew Sullivan

Although I never publicly defended promiscuity, I never publicly attacked it. I attempted to avoid the subject, in part because I felt, and often still feel, unable to live up to the ideals I really hold.

Anthony Ray Hinton
Anthony Ray Hinton

I want you to know there is a God. He sits high, but he looks low. He will destroy, but yet he will defend - and he defended me.

Arnold Schwarzenegger
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Freedom is a right ultimately defended by the sacrifice of America's servicemen and women.

Austin Aries
Austin Aries

Obviously, you'd like your titles to be defended at major pay-per-views. I think most fans would agree with that although it doesn't mean that always has to be the case.

Ben Domenech
Ben Domenech

Writers who do crap work believe they have turned in spun gold and all their little darlings must be defended.

Carolyn Maloney
Carolyn Maloney

We cannot ensure that women will be free of discrimination in the workplace and everywhere as long as women are not universally defended under our Constitution. As it stands now, the equal rights of women are subject to interpretation of law. That is a risk our mothers, sisters and daughters cannot afford.

Cenk Uygur
Cenk Uygur

I've defended the Clintons longer than I've been a liberal, but I don't have any nostalgia for that.

Charles Duhigg
Charles Duhigg

In the past, NASDAQ has defended flash orders.