Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mary Pat pitched one heck of a game. She was out there humming the ball, hitting her spots and hitting the corners. Our defense just had a little mental lapse there in the second inning. We're going to get better at it. It's still early in the season and we're not quite where we want to be yet. But, we're going to get there.

John Beilein

(Marshall) played a great game and they're getting better every day. I thought they just played excellent defense on us. We did all of the things we wanted to do to get open shots and they just didn't go in.

We knew they'd been a hot team this whole tournament. We had to play good defense if we wanted to win a championship, and I think we did a good job.

We lacked intensity on defense in the first quarter. After the first quarter we played a pretty solid game, so things are looking up for us.

Flip Saunders

We know when to lock down. Our defense hasn't slipped at all.

Tayshaun Prince

We know what our capabilities are: to have our defense get some stops and try to get started on our offensive game, which wasn't happening for us.

We know we've got to use the run to set up the pass. If we can do that, we can keep the score down and we can help the defense stay off the field.

We know we're good. But now we want to be great. And playing tough defense is one way to get there.

We know we have to come out strong this way every time we play this team. The guys have just been playing great defense in front of me. I didn't see much tonight, especially in the second period.

Drew Brees

We were tying to go down and get points and pad that lead, but they did a good job getting back into the game. But our defense did a heck of a job holding them.

I thank my lucky stars he's on defense now. He's a huge part of what we're doing. He's doing a great job.

Phil Jackson

We obviously need his defense at some level. It's good to have him back in the offense, but we weren't smooth with him in there offensively, though.

We pitched well and played defense well but we weren't real disciplined at the plate.

We picked up the intensity with our full-court defense and started getting turnovers and steals and quick shots. That stopped for some reason.

We picked our defense up in the second half. Every kid on the floor played defense as hard as they could. I am so proud of how our kids fought back.

E. O. Wilson

We picked it up on defense. Defense was the name of the fourth quarter.

Rex Grossman

With a guy like Moose, you don't have to make a perfect throw. He runs great routes, he's got terrific hands, and he's a guy the opposing defense has to respect. He just makes our whole offense better.

We've been down in previous games, we just battled back and knew our defense would get us back in the game.

We've been doing a better job these last few games of keeping our defense up the whole game. That's the key for us.

We've been disruptive on defense when people come through the lane.

Jason Terry

We've been relying on the defense a lot more. That's starting to be the new motto for our team; starting to be our reputation now.

At halftime it was like walking into a morgue. We talked about defense and rebounding. Maybe it's happening because we're playing a lot of kids and we get out of a rhythm on defense.

Ron Rivera

As we said all the way through training camp: We felt we were a good team. We felt we were on the rise. ... We talked about where we felt we could be as a defense ? being in the top 10, being in the top five, being No. 1, finishing No. 1. The ultimate prize has always been the playoffs and getting to the Super Bowl.

Mike Connolly

As usual, Tufts and Trinity will be tough and Bates and Colby are our rivals which makes them always tough to play against. However, I feel our goals are realistic if we do the little things like play good defense and get quality pitching.

Dan Davis

As you can see, it's starting to rub off on other players. The whole defense is starting to play with some enthusiasm. We'll come to the line, talk a little smack.

As much respect as I have for their offense, I really wasn't that impressed by their defense on film. Twenty-five points wasn't what we expected there. More like 56.

It's exactly how I want them to play every day. Play good defense and scratch out runs. We're competitive and in the games.

After that timeout, I thought our defense got better.

After we got going we played good defense and swung with out bats. We'll be ready for districts.

After they got that 10-point lead, the defense got together and talked about how the game is not over.

It's nearing the end of the year, and fatigue played a part. Two, they were trying too hard at times. The defense would make an error and start to press. In this league, starting pitching is the key because of the bullpens.

It's nice to see we're doing good things. Our defense was good, our pitching was good. I'm proud of them.

Jason Bay

It's really the first game all year where we had our pitching, our hitting and our defense all working at the same time. That's a good sign.