Famous Quotes & Sayings

The defense played really well. The midfield also did a great job of controlling the ball. I'm real pleased with the effort.

The defense played outstanding, particularly in the second half, led by our defensive line. We're improving every week, which is what we want to do.

The defense played much better than they had all year, and the offense played worse.

The defense played great. Statistically it was pretty even, but we shut them down when we had to.

The defense played great. It was a hard-fought, hard-hitting game. North has a good, solid football team.

The defense played great at Wadley as well. They were not only getting tackles early to keep their offense from moving except for two big plays, but they were teaming up three or four at a time making sure they were not able to move anymore.

The defense played extremely well tonight, especially when we were in some tough situations.

The defense played a solid game without being tested much throughout, except in man-down situations in which we were 7 of 7.

Mike Glenn

The defense made few mistakes and ran to the football.

The defense loves to hit people on interceptions. I thought someone had me from behind; next thing I knew, it was all green in front of me.

Tommy Bowden

The defense looked further ahead. They looked like they had a little edge to them and they are starting to play with a whole lot more continuity.

Larry Coker

The defense kept giving us opportunities to win the game. We just couldn't get it done.

The defense is what we fed off of. We forced some turnovers and got some easy baskets on offense and gained some momentum off it.

Nate Robertson

The defense is what makes our pitching work, and they did a great job.

The defense is playing hard right now. When you do that you have good things happen.

The defense is our strong point. We stepped up and put pressure on their quarterback. We studied film on him and scouted him all week. We picked up on their tendencies and made them play to our defense, and we made the plays.

The defense is great. They've been playing together for a long time. All three of them can play any sport and play it well. But they're well-rounded soccer players. They play to win.

The defense is going to turn on Ryan's image as a big-picture manager who was not involved in day-to-day operations.

We didn't get it done on either shot. It doesn't matter what you do on defense if you don't protect the backboards.

We didn't get back to stop them on defense in transition in the second half. Overall, we just did not do the job we needed to do on the defensive end. Offensively, we got some good shots, but they just didn't drop.

We didn't get back on defense and they got a lot of baskets off the transition or we put them at the foul line.

We didn't get a lot of steals from the defense but we did disrupt their offense and took them out of their flow.

Ron Dayne

We didn't get all our third downs, and that was the thing that kept the defense on the field so much. We just have to keep working on it. We did better than we did last week. We're getting better and improving.

We did not play very focused and didn't execute on offense, defense or fast break. We started the game down 15-0 and fought back to tie the game in the third quarter at 33, but we let Sweeny go on a 16-0 run. We had too many mental breakdowns, and we need to win some games on the road to have a shot at doing something in district.

We did not play defense well. We are going to have to get a whole lot better when we get back into region play. I am glad to get the win, but we made too many errors.

We had a 10-minute letdown after our goal. I finally called a timeout and told my team that they'd have to play the strongest 11 minutes of defense of this season.

We got lazy with our defense and rebounding after jumping out to an early lead. After a halftime talk, we played harder and picked up the intensity in the second half.

We are starting to realize we have to hit to win games. The defense can't do it all the time. Hopefully we can reach our goal and win the rest of our region games.

We are starting to play much better as a team. We're helping on defense and we're not being as selfish on the offensive end. It's nice to see and it's nice to be a part of it again.

Kevin Kelly

To think about how many yards he put up in such a short time this season, it's truly remarkable. I think that kind of shows those schools that were looking at him only on defense that he had the right idea.

To that point, we were playing focused defense and got much better pitching. The offense just wasn't aggressive.

Pat Roberts

Yet the DIA, the Defense Intelligence Agency, knew of his background. He has a very troubled background.

Derek Jeter

I wish I trusted people more. But when I meet someone, the first thing is, 'What does this person want?' And I put up a defense mechanism. But I've always been that way.