Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Ben Quayle

I think we should be looking at the defense and seeing where we can actually be more efficient because I think that, you know, sometimes during the contracting process, we lose some efficiencies in that regard.

We used a 1-3-1 defense all season and have been successful. We wanted to keep them away and force shots.

We have to be ready on defense again. They like to run in transition, and they'll play with a lot more energy at home.

We have seen her a few times before, so we had an idea how good she was. We played our regular defense and rotated people to guard her, but that didn't work.

This was a much needed win. Our defense played a good game, we had a lot of scoring opportunity in the game, some that should have been called goals, but we will take this win.

The play is designed to get all the way outside on the defense and outrun everybody.

The players never like hearing it, but I told them before the game and at the half, the reason we're where we are is because we have played defense and done an incredible job on the boards. I told them at the half that I didn't understand why we don't have 10 to 12 charges. They were going to the goal out of control, ducking their heads. And I said 'somebody step up,' and they did.

Aaron Williams

When you play three games back-to-back, you lose some energy. When that happens, we just have to pick our D up. Defense is a real big key on our team. It's defense that puts points on the board.

When you play five or six sophomores offensively, they just have to grow up. That's the only way they can do it without making mistakes. Thankfully our defense played well enough tonight that we could come out on top.

Bill Belichick

There are 11 people out there playing defense. What makes a difference is how those 11 people play. That's what defense is about. It's about team defense. You are always trying to isolate it into one player, one situation or one thing, and it just doesn't work that way.