Famous Quotes & Sayings

This was a great way for us to start our division. We just have to maintain our good defense.

There are a number of navies all over the world with Standard Missile and vertical launching systems that could employ SM-3, paving the way for a truly global ballistic missile defense capability.

Aaron Williams

When you play three games back-to-back, you lose some energy. When that happens, we just have to pick our D up. Defense is a real big key on our team. It's defense that puts points on the board.

When you play five or six sophomores offensively, they just have to grow up. That's the only way they can do it without making mistakes. Thankfully our defense played well enough tonight that we could come out on top.

Bill Belichick

There are 11 people out there playing defense. What makes a difference is how those 11 people play. That's what defense is about. It's about team defense. You are always trying to isolate it into one player, one situation or one thing, and it just doesn't work that way.

There are just too many times when we have one or two guys who take time off on defense. You can't have that. You've got to have all five guys playing defense on every possession.

We always talk about packing our defense and our rebounding when we go on road trips. That's what we have to do.

We always start in some sort of press. Tonight our defense was relentless.

We always say our defense gets our offense going.

Larry Coker

The operation was tragic. That was an extremely disappointing loss. Our defense kept giving us opportunities to win the game and we just didn't get it done. That's why it was so disappointing.

We had three girls foul out, and we got out of sync on offense. Still, if we just play defense in the last few minutes, we win in regulation. We gave up a wide-open 3-pointer with 12 seconds left.

Those two guys were a huge part of the successful defense we had here for several years. And now they are helping out up there too, which is nice.

Bob Hill

This team when I first got there played defense with their hands down - the worst I've ever seen.

This team has the potential for a big season. The offense must reduce the number of turnovers, and the defense must stop the run. Also, we must remain injury-free.

This team has a really good offense, but the defense just clicked.

This was a tough loss for us. We were off a step on our man-to-man defense and because of it we sent them to the line and they capitalized on it.

This was a potent offense, but our defense made some nice plays and kept hitting hard. I was really happy to see that we kept playing them tough in the second half. Stagg has been known in the past for tough defenses, and I think it will be the same this year.

This was a fast tempo game and we couldn't find a defense to stop their (continual) scoring. The shots we did get to fall, we had to earn.

This was a big win. We were patient on offense and defense and stuck to our scouting report. A lot of guys stepped up tonight.

We got a little sluggish in the second half. But we stepped it up on defense and then our offense kind of flowed from that.

Jason Smith

We got a halftime talk that defense was everything, and we had to pick it up or we were going to be on the losing end. That would have put all our program's done this year down the drain.

This will be a different team than we had last year. It takes time for a defense to gel, especially with the loss of four seniors.

(The Rebels) did a lot of things to disguise (their blitzing). We have to figure some things out. But as long as the defense plays like that, we should be fine.

(The Rebels) did a lot of things to disguise (their blitzing), ... We have to figure some things out. But as long as the defense plays like that, we should be fine.

We run our zone but we use it with man defense principles. Our fundamentals were a big part of our success.

We're young, but we have good athletes. We've obviously been struggling at the plate, but our hitting is going to come. The pitching and defense are already there.

We saved runs all night long. That's the way you had to win that game, because they had so many opportunities. Our defense stood out.

We sat our starters on Saturday and got them in the mood that defense is important again. We're a team that really relies on hard-nosed defense.

We just haven't been playing defense with the same energy.

We knew the whole time we could play with them. We wanted to pound it inside, kick it back, and keep their defense working. That's what we started doing early in the game.

We knew that they were going to come out and run. I told the girls at the end of the quarter, that we had to get back and play good defense and that would get us back into the game.

Sam Baker

We knew it was our fault the drives were stopping. The defense did a great job of giving us time to get things together.

We kept urgency. That was a big factor. We kept playing hard on defense and stuck with the game plan.