Famous Quotes & Sayings

Spencer Hawes

This year we've come together as a team and we've emphasized family. Our defense is 10 times better than last year. I'm so excited about what we can do in the district championship and at state.

This year's success reminded me why I wanted to come here. I like to play physical defense.

We just have to play defense. Our defense has to get better.

Brad Boyes

We didn't give up a lot. Our defense played well, limited their chances. They didn't get a lot and it was a key part to our victory.

We didn't give Ravenna many good looks at the basket. We've been working hard on our defense in practice.

We knew we needed to come out and play harder defense than we did in the first half. They were hitting their shots in the first half.

We knew we had to score first, and the defense would hold us. Once you score, you just want more.

We knew we had to press up and play good defense. Good defense turns into good offense. We take pride in playing good defense.

Kristi Toliver

We knew we had to play better defense because most of our shots weren't falling. It was a different kind of game for us, but I think we showed why we deserve to win it all.

Brian White

We're trying to stretch the defense and get them to run (laterally),

Scott Skiles

We waited too long to start playing. We kind of sleep-walked through 2-1/2 quarters. Then near the end of the third quarter, we finally started getting aggressive. We started driving the ball, and our defense picked up. We clawed ourselves back into the game.

Lloyd Carr

We've worked hard on it, but the key to the Nebraska defense is up-front four. That'll be a real test for us.

We were worried about them. We just kept our feet moving and packed it in on defense to (slow) the penetration.

We don't play defense like that, we never have and never will again. That 16 minutes was the ugliest thing I've seen on defense.

We have gotten off to slow starts in a lot of our games and you can't keep doing that and expect to win so we tried to pressure up on them and play good defense to get out of here with a win.

Mark Richt

We put the onus on the defense one more time and they made the plays again, thankfully. Running game, field position, defense. It isn't pretty sometimes.

We put some new things in, just to give them new looks. We had some plays where, as soon as we called a play, they switched their defense so that where he ended up, they'd have two guys already there. We're going to keep giving it to him. We're not going to go away from that at all.

We did a pretty good job on offense, but we didn't think we played defense as well as we should. Some of that is adjustments we have to make, and some of it is kids who need to do a better job.

When our pitching and defense are on, we can find a way to score. Our players were fired up and were intense throughout, from inning one to seven. It was like night and day from yesterday's game.

We would go there and we would shoot around, but we listened to everything he was saying. You learned how much that defense meant to him and how he really made sure that guys were in the right spots on the floor.

We want to go out and play our style. Defense is going to be the huge thing. Our strength is our speed, we're just going to have to use it.

We want to end the season with a better record than last year. We need to minimize errors on defense and be more of a running team.

We weren't very good early, but we have gotten a lot better as the season has gone along. We are still tweaking some areas, help-side defense for one. We are getting there.

We knew it had to start on defense for us. We had got some defensive stops and then took it one possession at a time.

We knew if we could withstand their pressure early we could stay in the game and have a chance. Our goal was to just not lose it in the first half. And our defense did a great job.

We kind of started that game like we hadn't played in a while. Once we got into the flow of things, we understood what their defense was doing and we understood where the open shots were.

You have to play defense, because if you don't, you haven't got anything. This is a game where people make mistakes. You've got to play defense to make them make mistakes.

This year our defense is more experienced, and they're playing really well together as a unit,

Lloyd Carr

When you look at what he did in the fourth quarter, there was not a lot of space in that defense on the last drive.

We've really done remarkable. We couldn't have scored as many goals (around 70 for season) or won as many games without the way the defense has supported us. They've played strong every game.

Ken Green

We were only up four (32-28) at halftime. We really tightened up our defense and we got some baskets in transition and we didn't let up.

J. K. Rowling

Witness for the defense, Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore.

Marshall McLuhan

The price of eternal vigilance is indifference.