Famous Quotes & Sayings

We didn't lose because the effort wasn't there. We just didn't execute on the offensive end; their half-court defense was tremendous.

Steven Hill

We didn't hit many shots. But we played defense the whole game.

Tim Duncan

We didn't have the edge we needed tonight. They shot 50 percent from the floor. We need to shore up our defense right now going into the final few games of the season.

We didn't have that five-minute lapse of making mistakes to give the other team the opportunity to win. With the exception of the second half of the South Plains game (a 71-62 loss on March 2), I thought we've been playing hard. We just had those possessions on offense and defense where we hurt ourselves and we didn't do that (on Monday).

We had several guys step up and hit the ball. Sixteen hits and we played great defense and earned some respect.

We had several breakdowns where the players didn't execute the defense that was called.

I see someone who doesn't' show any fear about getting up there in a big-game situation. And at third base, we feel he can play good defense at the major league level.

I've been fortunate to have been through that before, where the offense struggled and the defense had to play every snap. I've been through it, so that's where I get some of my strength from.

Rich Rodriguez

It would behoove us to have a low-scoring game. For that to happen, obviously we've got to play very well on defense and be lucky too,

I've never had a varsity touchdown before and to come out and get two on defense is big. It's good to know you can help the team win without having a big impact on offense.

The zone was our main defense last year.

The way King played us defensively, it was obvious how they felt about Adam. I don't think you focus a defense like that unless a guy is a big-time stud.

Adrian Beltre

The way I'm hitting, I'd better make those plays. This year, I'm getting paid for my defense. I work hard at it, I take pride in it. In games like this, small plays make a difference.

What can you say except Kurt was awesome? What their defense was giving us was the shot in the corner, and Kurt was shooting with confidence.

We spend a lot of time on defense (in practice). It was nice to watch a game where we did everything we had practiced.

We've been sort of a mystery because we can do all three well, but we can't do them together. We've had a hard time of doing them all together. Like last weekend, we pitched well and played defense, but lost two of three games (against Kentucky). The one game we hit well and played defense and pitched, we won.

We tried to mix up our defense and got out and tried to play a little more zone. We're just not a zone-principled team.

We tried to keep the defense up on them and that led to getting our offense started. I was as happy about our defense during that stretch as I was about our offense. We tried to drive in, penetrate and then kick it out.

We talked about defense at halftime. When we went man-to-man in the second quarter they really struggled.

We just played harder defense and did a better job in transition.

We just picked it up and started playing good belly-to-belly defense. We picked up the intensity and started making things happen.

We just wanted to play on him tight. But the main thing was we played together. When he drove, my teammates stepped up and stopped the ball. We played team defense on him.

Robert Johnson

We just had to tighten up on defense and we had to finish everything we had. We had to keep them off the boards.

We weren't strong enough, and they made savvy plays. Vincent is a great player, and the defense of their whole team was great.

We were really focused tonight. We're playing to our strengths right now, which is pressure defense and fast-break offense.

We missed free throws, we couldn't rebound, we didn't play good defense in the post and we did not look good at times at the point guard position. It didn't look like we were running anything offensively.

We might have started a little slow, but our defense played really well. We weren't hitting our shots right away, but when you have good defense you stay in the game.

We have to find a way to get some points. Hopefully, our defense will be able to maintain their level of play from last week.

Raja Bell

We have to double the post now. When you have Kurt down there, you don't have to do that. It makes you have to rotate and puts you out of position on defense and for rebounds.

We have to do it on the road from here on out. Defense wins championships. I've been saying that for 29 years and it's just as true now as it was back then.

James Jones

We had these guys, but special teams hurt us a lot. We couldn't stop them as well sometimes on defense in situations. We've just got to make more plays.

We won all three phases of the game offense, defense and special teams.

We woke up in the second quarter. The kids really steeped it up and played super defense tonight, right when we needed it.