Famous Quotes & Sayings

I was never really worried about the slow start like that because I knew our defense was good enough to wear them down. Sammy is one of our sophomore leaders and really gave us that spark at the right time.

Chuck Norris

The best defense is not to offend.

If we stick it in the end zone, the game's over. Their defense stood up to the test.

If the defense is using an extra guy on one player, that means another player is going to be open.

We couldn't press like we wanted to, but our pressure defense in the half-court set was great. We took their big guy out of the game, and that really made the difference.

We played some great defense like we knew we could. It was something we definitely wanted to hang our hat on from last year. Oral Roberts had some great players. I think we did a good job on them tonight. That's just going to get us ready for the Big Ten.

We played sluggish in the game. Our defense never stepped up, and we let their leading scorer have her way. Our plan was to shut her down, but we just didn't come out ready to play.

We played really well in the first half, up 12 at halftime. The kids passed well and looked for the open man -- they showed a lot of patience. In the second half (Scappoose) stepped up on defense and offensively we got off track of what we wanted to do.

We played really well. I can't complain, of course. We're starting to pick up our game a lot. Our offense and defense looked nice.

We played quite well and could have scored more but their goalie was outstanding. We had a shutout so our defense was strong.

Well, they had very few opportunities to score. Lauren Tarver played great defense and she plays with all heart.

We played very well defensively. That's what we preach. We want to play defense and hit the boards.

We played very hard defense all game. I think we just wore them down. We pressed the entire game and I think they just got tired.

We hang our hat on our defense and tonight it saved us.

We had heard talk around the league that Erika is soft on defense because she didn't want to get in foul trouble. Well, she proved them wrong. She runs the floor with so much finesse, but she can be physical, too.

We had a lot of opportunities to score tonight. We played much better defense in the second half.

We had two options on that play. We were going to push it and see if we could find numbers and if we looked like we had a seam we were going to go play. I felt like if they had their defense set it was going to be hard for us to take a timeout and try to run something set.

Andy Williams

We had to take what the defense was giving us.

We're going in thinking defense first. We're going to try to shut them down and get some offense off of our defense.

Tony Banks

We're glad to get this win over a good team that played great defense all game. This is our seventh straight trip to Troy, and we feel fortunate to be able to go after fighting for this win tonight.

We're just going to have to make sure that our defense and intensity are there. We have to understand what we need to do defensively and help each other out, and hopefully we'll be able to stop them.

Like I always say, defense wins games. Today once we settled down, we made a lot of big plays.

Luke's execution from the point, and his defense on Fischer was big. Luke has grown a lot this season.

Henry Bibby

Making a nice run doesn't mean anything. We didn't come out with any urgency, we didn't have any intensity and we didn't play any defense early on.

Marcus Johnson

Lots of time we'd come down and make one call, then the defense would be something we didn't expect and we'd have to make another call. It gets tough but we just need to get better at it.

One of our goals is to be in the top 10 in defense. Defense wins games and championships down the road. This team has gutted it out and played very solid defense.

No one expected her to shoot it, not at all. We played great defense and then it was kind of like nothing else was open and it just went in. Even all of the media up here were shocked. She had her night, she was hitting everything. It was a killer shot for us.

My defense played excellent again. Offensively we're in a rut. We need to be able to finish.

My defense is tough. We're in every game because of my defense.

My defense is our key. They're showing people they can dominate. Cuddy is one of the most improved players on the team, and Ballard has been a hidden treasure for us. I can put Toombs anywhere.

Jerome Bettis

My defense bailed me out. I can leave here with my head up high.

Aaron Gray

Maybe it was a lack of our defense. They got a lot of wide-open looks and they missed a lot of wide-open looks, too.

Dusty Baker

Some of it has to do with the fact that we have a strikeout pitching staff. I always liked my teams at the top of the league in defense and double plays. Any time you can get two outs on one pitch, it's a lot less pitches for your pitchers. A lot of times, it gets you out of the inning out of trouble.