Famous Quotes & Sayings

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 it's hard to run it into the end zone when you're down from the 6 to about the 2. It's nice to run it in from 10 to 15 because the defense is looser.

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've been down that much in the past, but not this year. But I told the guys, it's a full game and you have to keep playing defense and stay true to it and the shots will fall.

Jake Plummer

We got the running game going and our defense dominated them on the other side of the ball...We just kept working hard. We played some tough defense.

We gave up some easy baskets early. We didn't want that to happen again, so we made some adjustments in the second quarter and were able to use our defense to get ourselves some easy baskets.

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.

Barbara Lee

We are not the CIA, we are not the FBI, we are not the White House, we are not the Defense Department. We are the United States Congress; we have our role. And we can't give up that role during a national-security crisis.

We had to pick it up and try to help out our defense. They've been playing well all year. We had to go out there and work harder.

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 had to make adjustments at halftime. Our defense in the second half was the big difference.

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 made enough plays to win on offense and played enough defense to be worn out and in a position to lose. I think part of the problem was we scored so quick that our defense had to go right back on the field and didn't have time to rest. We weren't tackling very well. We couldn't get people to the point of attack.

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.

We had two options on that play. We were going to push it and see if we could find numbers and if we looked like we had a seam we were going to go play. I felt like if they had their defense set it was going to be hard for us to take a timeout and try to run something set.

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.

Andy Williams

We had to take what the defense was giving us.

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 wanted to go to a smaller, quicker lineup to play man-to-man on defense and that got us back in the game.

We wanted to go out there and tell everybody that we have this great offense, but the defense can play, too. We went into the game looking for a 'W.' We'll leave the gauging to you guys.

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.

We've got several kids who can score in a number of different ways. Once the tournament begins, we've got to stay sharp mentally and come ready to play good defense and rebound every night. We've got seven seniors on this team and we want them to go out on a positive note.

Jack Johnson

We've got Savage and our receivers should be good. The offensive line will take a little time. I think our defense is pretty solid. Our secondary is good.

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.