Famous Quotes & Sayings

He's an unbelievable on-ball defender. He sets the tone for our defense in not letting the other team get comfortable with what they do.

Garnett is a ferocious pass rusher and is extremely solid on offense which made him highly sought-after in free agency. He will provide pressure up front that will help a Stan Davis-run defense dominate.

Jim Nantz

George, the Panthers' defense is pretty good. Which weapons of mass destruction in the Patriots' offense do you figure will mysteriously disappear?

Good teams find a way to win, and we feel like we're a good team. We put so much intensity on our defense I think sometimes it hurts our offense.

I love the fact that we won because of our defense (in the semifinals). We've preached that all year. Our defense has been solid all year. That's what we need to do again.

Linda Ronstadt

I'll occasionally go and do an honor like the Mexican-American Legal Defense Fund because it raises money for a very worthy organization.

Buck Showalter

I look at stats just like you do. It's about run production and run reduction with defense and pitching.

I know I have to improve my offense - my jump shot and my moves in the post. I feel comfortable with where my defense is, but my scoring has to get better.

I just had an off night. The defense was keeping us in the game, and we just couldn't get anything going on offense. I take most of the responsibility for that.

Osi Umenyiora

I haven't felt this excitement in here about any player since I've been here. It feels like he's the missing link as far as this defense goes.

I have to see where the defense and my linemen are, ... I have to set them up in the right place to make the right blocks.

I really feel like we're growing as a team and as a defense, and I want to be a part of it,

I pride myself on (the team) playing good defense. That's how we score, our defense is our thing.

He sets the standard of hard work, that hard-hat mentality the Spurs have, with his defense. He never gets the headlines or stories because he doesn't score a lot of points, but the Spurs would suffer without him.

Buck Showalter

He's just been tentative on defense with that leg.

Sam Cassell

How are you not going to get up to play in the Garden. I try to win and I took what the defense gave me. It's a team effort that's why we won the game tonight.

He's our Mexican version of Wash. He's a tireless worker who has the respect of all the guys, and he's got a very important job. Most of the Minor League kids just want to come in and swing the bat, and Juan has to teach them why defense is such a big part of our success.

He's real versatile. It's going to be hard to just shut somebody completely down that takes that many shots. I just have to play tough defense and stay with him the whole time.

He's really a smart kid that realized what he needed to do to get more minutes. Primarily he plays good help defense and is a solid kid on offense on the block.

Brad Jones

I don't really feel like I need to fill his shoes in that sense. I feel like he was a very, very great player that left here, but I think our defense will make up for it. I don't think there will be a hitch in our defense at all.

I don't know if we've ever had a game quite like this one. Even though we had scored a lot of points, our offense hadn't really been on the field and our defense had been on the field the whole time. And they did a great job of reversing the momentum.

I don't know if I was necessarily recruited to fit this defense. I think I was recruited more for my toughness and work ethic. I've been called the 'non-prototypical' defensive end for this defense. But the person who can really hone in on the techniques of this defense can play.

I don't know how many good shots they put up. I know they missed a lot of shots, but I don't know how many were forced or hurried, but I would say quite a few of them were. They were frustrated and pressure defense can do that to a team.

Jamie Dixon

I didn't think our defense was good early on, but they had something to do with that. We played well in the second half.

Becca has stepped it up all year. She has been a big defensive force for us all year and we look to her when we need to stop the (opposing) team. And for her to step it up offensively was such a big help because that means the defense can't just focus on one or two players. They have to worry about all five.

Tom Johnson

Hey, Maloney played pretty well. Their defense slowed us down for a while.

Will Allen

He's still a hard runner. He's still got it, but our defense is tough. It's hard to run on us, it's hard to pass on us. But Ricky, he ran hard. He's always going to run hard.

He stayed in tune and had a good thought process out there, and his defense was very good.

He's facing a lot of shots every game with a young defense in front of him.

Their team is very guard-oriented. Smart defense is going to be the key.

Their second-shot opportunities down the stretch killed us. A lot of defense takes a lot out of you.

Jon Gruden

Their quality zone defense and their spontaneity of mixing in blitzes were tough to handle.

Their defense was very, very athletic. They put a lot of pressure on the ball, and it made it hard for us to get any quality shots.