Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brian Dawkins

You want the opposing offense to look at your defense and see everybody going to the ball. I thought we did a pretty good job of that today. We had guys making plays, and that's what you want from your defense.

You should be talking to Carly Hamilton and (sweeper) Carly Kimball, because our defense won this game. Nothing gets by them.

Brad Childress

You see it with all the guys that are in their first time with this offense. You can't be thinking a lot. You want to just be reacting, heading down your path and seeing what the defense is giving you, as opposed to thinking about what steps you have to take and what your landmark is and how you're involved in the protection.

You score 34 points, you expect to win the game. Our defense really let us down.

They're the key to the team. We just played a little better defense in the second half.

They've got a lot of speed on defense and it showed. We knew that going in but seeing it out on the field is a lot different than watching film. But we learned a lot tonight about our team. We learned they're they can get tough when they need to. They played with a lot of guts tonight.

They've gone from playing defense to seeing some of these initiatives pay off.

Ken Jennings

They (the players) said they wanted a rematch. I told them the only way we could do was we had to play defense. Defense wins games.

They started knocking down some shots. They took some things away with their defense, but we got some stops when we needed them. Like I told them afterwards, it's not supposed to be easy.

They scored so fast tonight, it seemed like we were playing defense all night.

They pulled back into a man-to-man defense to take away our spread, high-pick offense. We just hit a thousand shots.

A lot of folks will look at this and think it was our offense, but we scored 36 points in the first half. It was our defense early that let us down. That was the key. We'd held teams in the SEC to 17, 19 and 22 points, and we gave up 46 in the first half. We dug ourselves into a hole, but it was the defense.

Buck Showalter

A lot of people, they overlook the defense the more a guy hits. Those all-around players like that are rare. ... He's a special defender. He turns hits into outs.

A lot of people say we haven't seen an offense like USC. They haven't seen a defense like UT.

Rudy Giuliani

America, ... needs to be defended. We need missile defense to better police the skies over the United States.

You play hard defense for 35 seconds and they knock the shots down ... it's frustrating.

This is special and this is a special group of guys. We play defense. That's what we do. We didn't let them walk over us.

Mike Scioscia

This is out of the blue. Everything you could have messed up, we messed up out there. These guys have played terrific defense all year, so it's very uncharacteristic.

The whole game was predicated on defense. Our defense is what we got our offense out of and our defense is what won the game for us.

This game will be a lot tougher. If we just play the defense like we played the last time, maybe a little harder, we should be OK.

Champ Bailey

There was nothing they were doing why we couldn't make things happen, all we had to do is just play. We dominated and we never gave up. The offense played well and scoring on defense really helps.

Aaron Gray

There was just a lack of defense on our part.

There was no rhythm to the first half. It was frustrating in the first half, but their defense did it to us.

There was no energy, no intensity (against Rose). They had to do it on defense and drive us the whole way through the game.

There was too much standing around and not wanting to get down and play defense. But a win is a win, and you can't always look at the negatives.

There were some good collisions. I was pleased with some things the defense did, though the offense maybe got the better of it in the end. We're a little rusty, but I've got to remember it was the first day in pads.

Martin Brodeur

There's a lot of defense to our games. I think we're able to play somewhat of a trap. We are able to funnel people on the ice to where we want them to be, to where we think we will be able to defend. It's similar to a trap, but we are playing it a little differently than before because there is no red line. We are relying more on position hockey than anything.

This line of defense does come with a price.

Sue Bird

This is the worst feeling I ever had, ... They jumped on us. Our defense was so bad. I don't even know what happened.

Fred Thompson

This latest disclosure of mismanagement at the Department of Defense is outrageous. Unlike other instances where reports have shown that DoD simply loses major inventory items, this mistake actually threatens lives of American soldiers.

This is who the girls wanted to play. We won this game with defense and heart. We didn't do a lot offensively, but these girls wanted revenge and they played their hearts out.

Michael Redd

They pose a lot of problems for us. They have a versatile team. I think their offense is underrated. Their defense is going to be solid, but I think their offense has come up a lot this year.

Sean Elliott

They play good defense and help each other out a lot. So that's a good sign. If you start playing defense, the wins will start racking up.