Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brian Rolston

The defense can't cross-check in front of the net and get you out of there like they used to, ... We're taking advantage.

The defense always wins. Three and out, three and out, nothing new. The fans should know it's the same every year.

Troops are there to provide humanitarian support. There is no reason the Self Defense Forces should withdraw from Iraq. We will do our utmost for those people to be released unharmed.

Trinity pressured us with man-to-man defense the entire game. And then two of our players fouled out.

We needed that run. We were struggling. I'm not sure if it was jitters or what but it took us a little while to get going. We also played great defense and we didn't let them get into their half-court offense.

We needed more people to step up and score. I was displeased with the defense down the stretch, but we know we're going to have to turn things around to make a run at state.

We need to thin out the penalties, but the offense and defense played well tonight.

We need to stay organized in our defense and score on the opportunities we get.

We needed to get angry. We weren't playing well the last two games, and at times we were lacking enthusiasm. But we knew the truth about us and that we would could come out and play good defense and win.

You know in the tournament that a lot of offenses come out a little tight. We're a fourth seed, so there isn't a lot expected of us. We played great defense today.

We've been having some problems with our hitting, but we're working on that. Again, our pitching and defense have pulled us through. Jessica always pitches well for us.

We've been getting good defense from the rest of them, but last night we got the 9s, 7s and 5s in the scorebook that really help us offensively.

We gave up a lot in the first half. Our defense settled in during the second half, and we really held our own.

We can be great. We just have to keep playing defense like we do and working hard.

We had to make adjustments on offense and defense at halftime. Those kids from Johnson are good. They can flat shoot the lights out. We had to go to a kind of half-man, half-zone 'D' to try and stop them.

We got off to a really slow start offensively. But I thought our defense made up for that and played really well and didn't give them any easy shots.

Roy H. Williams

We fought together as a team. We pulled out a win. It was tough. It's a team sport. When your offense needs help, your defense has to have their back. And we did that today.

We had a little more focus in the second half. Our defense was excellent. We held them to two field goals in the second half and our offense fed off our defense.

Steve Alford

We had to win this thing with our defense because offensively ... the shot would just not drop for us tonight. We made enough key free throws down the stretch and we had some really key stops. I'm just really happy to get away with a win tonight.

We had to put on a scramble defense but on this big floor it takes a toll. We exerted so much energy to get back. We got within one ... but we could never get over the hump.

We have a good offense, but we're trying to get better on defense because defense is what wins games. We've been focusing on defense and trying to get better.

We've gotten here with defense and the strength of our bench. It's hard for people to match up with us because we can throw a lot of different lineups at them.

Steve Alford

We've got a lot of upperclassmen, and they understand the importance of that end. Tonight was as good we've helped all year, and that's what good team defense does.

We have been waiting all year long for that to happen. Our defense was our offense early in the game. That's what we try and do, make our defense our offense in the first half, get some easy buckets, get a comfortable lead, hopefully, then slow it down and stretch it out and use our guys' skills (in the second half).

We have to play better defense. They got a lot of easy buckets because we didn't get back on breaks. It will have to be better than it was then.

Jim Boeheim

We have to play better defense. Our field-goal percentage defense is the worst it's been since I've been here. We've got to play better the rest of the way. There's still a lot of time. A lot can happen.

Maurice Cheeks

We have too many breakdowns. I think that we have to go back to the one, two, three of defense rotations, and getting guys in different positions. The only way that you can win games if you are relying on your offense night in and night out, is you have to outscore teams. We're not going to outscore teams, so our defense has to go back to the fundamentals of teaching positions.

We have to keep fighting, trying to find ways to win the game. As a team we know we can win games if we shoot in the 30s -- if we play defense like we did in the second half.

We're not a young team anymore. Our defense has really matured. We're just all playing together. We're trying to get where want to go and we want play good every week.

Paul Wolfowitz

We're unified as an administration on this, ... We're unified within the Defense Department. We all understand the enormous value of expanding this coalition.

We have momentum going. We hope to keep riding the wave as long as it can take us. We feel pretty good. The spirit and morale are pretty high right now. We're playing defense and the offense looks good.

Jim Calhoun

We have Marcus Williams who made big plays down the stretch. We turned up the defense the last four or five minutes.

We will need pitching, great defense and pressure on offense to be successful.