Famous Quotes & Sayings

We did what we had to do. We got off to a good start in league; we played good defense and got all our relievers some work.

We did very well in the second quarter, and that has been a microcosm of our season. We play a good quarter and then not be so effective in another quarter. But our defense played pretty well throughout.

When we're playing well, we're usually on the run. If we can rebound and play solid defense, things are going well. Our defense leads to offense.

Troops are there to provide humanitarian support. There is no reason the Self Defense Forces should withdraw from Iraq. We will do our utmost for those people to be released unharmed.

Trinity pressured us with man-to-man defense the entire game. And then two of our players fouled out.

Trey's the general in there; he makes all the calls. The defense is kind of complicated. They use a 3-4 and a 4-3, an over and an under. They put five down linemen in the game. Trey worked very hard all week on the calls.

Olympia Snowe

travesty and a strategic blunder of epic proportions on the part of the Defense Department.

You know what's getting me to play better? Not thinking at all. I think right now I'm in a good place where it's like 'just play. Don't worry about what's going to happen, what might happen. Do what you're good at and everything else will fall into place.' I can play defense and I can rebound. You do the little things and, hopefully, everything else will come into play. Whether it's getting on the boards, diving on the floor ... whatever I can do.

We needed that run. We were struggling. I'm not sure if it was jitters or what but it took us a little while to get going. We also played great defense and we didn't let them get into their half-court offense.

We need to work on everything. We didn't expect to be in midseason form (Sunday). The offense had a lot of turnovers. I think the defense started out pretty good. We need to maintain our focus and discipline.

We need to thin out the penalties, but the offense and defense played well tonight.

We need to step up our defense as a team. Our defense has been slacking. We've been too focused on our offense. We need to get back to setting the tone defensively, and it starts with me.

We need to stay organized in our defense and score on the opportunities we get.

We need him to score for us, but we also look for him to play good defense in the post. He's experienced, and he's got those long arms, so he does a pretty good job in there.

We needed to pick up our defense. (Forward) Steve Snider and I have been saying this whole trip that defense is going to win this for us.

You know it's hard to run it into the end zone when you're down from the 6 to about the 2. It's nice to run it in from 10 to 15 because the defense is looser.

You know in the tournament that a lot of offenses come out a little tight. We're a fourth seed, so there isn't a lot expected of us. We played great defense today.

We've been down that much in the past, but not this year. But I told the guys, it's a full game and you have to keep playing defense and stay true to it and the shots will fall.

Our kids were flying to the football. They were doing some great things. Our defense stepped up when they had to and made some great plays.

Our kids hustled on defense and played hard.

Our kids have played hard defense all year and that's what's kept us in most of our games.

Bruce Gradkowski

Our goal tonight was to come out fast and strong, and we did that. Our offense wanted to set the tempo tonight, because the defense did it last week.

Our goal today was to execute on defense and get as many easy baskets on the offensive end as possible. That's what we did.

Our help defense was late three times in a row and suddenly it's 13-12. I thought if we could've kept our first quarter lead the game would have been different.

Our intensity on defense was much, much better. I thought we responded well as a team after the loss. Plus, it's always nice to have Lee (Coleman) back in the lineup.

Our intensity level went down and that made our defense go down. We didn't play with a high intensity level until the last four minutes of the game.

Our pressure was working on our defense. And if our defense shut them out, we can score.

Our pressure defense was great. We knew they had some good athletes, but we were able to shut them down after the first quarter.

Our pitching wasn't up to par nor our defense. We had four of our five hits in the seventh when we finally woke up. It was a little too late.

Larry Brown

Our perimeter defense isn't any worse than our interior defense. We want all of them to learn how to guard and have that as a priority.

Our strength is our defense. Our defense is our offense.

Our starting pitchers did an excellent job and we played pretty good defense today, so it's a good way to start.

Our game plan was to put pressure on Ramirez, and our kids did that well. I thought our whole defense played well.