Famous Quotes & Sayings

Defensively we did what we had to do and for us, that's huge because we haven't been playing real good defense to this point.

Defensively, they are so good. They play such good help defense and they've got quick people, and they just took us out of our offense. But our kids played hard.

Defensively I thought we did a pretty good job with our 1-3-1 zone defense in the first half. We found their shooters when they tried to overload it.

Defense wins our games for us. It's just a very good defensive effort.

Defense wins games and championships. You can see that. We know that. As long as we play defense the way it's supposed to be played, we have a great chance.

Arron Afflalo

Defense wins championships. He (Howland) always uses other teams as examples in every other sport to show that the top defensive team in that sport generally is the winner.

Defense was why we won this game because we went for long stretches without scoring ourselves.

Defense was the one thing we worked on all week that we realized would be huge. We needed to do everything to stop their key players.

Defense was the name of the game. This is a big win for the program a huge win. We were knocking on the door last year and we thought we could get it going this year.

Franklin Pierce

Defense was the name of the game, ... This is a big win for the program a huge win. We were knocking on the door last year and we thought we could get it going this year.

Bobby Frasor

Defense was the key. We were lazy before the game, but at halftime, we didn't look back, we looked ahead.

Chris Phillips

Defense was the key to our success, the defense has been solid all year.

Defense was a huge sore spot last year.

Defense to me was the key. I don't remember them getting too many open shots. I said we needed to play good defense and rebound and we did that.

Cliff Robinson

Defense to me, that wins games. You can outscore teams some nights, but sooner or later you have to get some stops. To me that's always been the key to winning.

Defense stocks have been on a roll, particularly with the White House talking about increased spending in that area.

Defense spending tends to be very lumpy in terms of the quarter in which it hits. When you're in the middle of a war, you have to have goods delivered. But even if it had been 3.6, it would still be respectable growth.

Defense should always be there. You don't go into a defensive slump if you don't want to.

Bob Johnson

Defense played really well tonight. We were really happy with our performance.

Marsha Blackburn

Defense of free markets is where we need to be when establishing a vision for national technology policy.

Defense let us down again. They've been like that all year. We've been averaging five errors a game, and the five errors hurt us. A lot of my players were sophomores. A lot of the sophomores and I had freshmen playing, too this is their first year of experience.

Ben Howland

Defense is what wins games on the road.

Defense is what we hang our hat on. I was pleased with our performance.

Jeff Davis

Defense is what keeps us in games. That and our heart and guts. It's disappointing to lose, but you can never be unhappy with a group of girls that work as hard as these girls do.

Defense is what has killed us. The games that we've won, our defense has been outstanding and the games that haven't been so close, our defense has really struggled.

Defense is what Catawba's historically known for. We think this could be a very good unit.

Defense (is the key). You always say that and next game we could go out and make 10 errors. (But the seniors) have played together pretty much since they were sophomores. They're 43-12 over the last two years.

Defense is the key. If we're going to win and be good, we've got to be good on the defensive end.

Defense is how we've won games all year long. We had to tighten the pressure in the second half.

Ken Green

Defense is hard work. A lot of times it gets unnoticed.

Jerry Stackhouse

Defense is great, but if you don't put some points on the board, you're not going to win games.

Fred Thompson

Defense is an attitude. We're still working hard to improve.

Jim Haslett

defense is a mind-set. You can't just do your job one time. We've got to win more one-on-ones. The defensive ends are the ones who are hurting us the most. They're letting runners get to the sidelines. The interior people are doing pretty well.