Famous Quotes & Sayings

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 knew we needed to come out and play harder defense than we did in the first half. They were hitting their shots in the first half.

We knew we had to score first, and the defense would hold us. Once you score, you just want more.

We knew we had to press up and play good defense. Good defense turns into good offense. We take pride in playing good defense.

Kristi Toliver

We knew we had to play better defense because most of our shots weren't falling. It was a different kind of game for us, but I think we showed why we deserve to win it all.

Brian White

We're trying to stretch the defense and get them to run (laterally),

We used the same defense we used at our place earlier this year. We started with a half-court trap and fell back into a man-to-man until the very end there.

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

We showed a different defense and Shafter didn't handle the zone well.

Julian Peterson

We should have won that game. It should have been up to the defense.

We shot 67 percent from the field. That just doesn't happen very often. We were successful because our offensive efficiency was as good as it's been all year. Drake also was more efficient offensively than any team has been all season in terms of points per possession. If we expect to win, our defense has got to be much better.

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.

This was a great way for us to start our division. We just have to maintain our good defense.

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.

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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.

There are just too many times when we have one or two guys who take time off on defense. You can't have that. You've got to have all five guys playing defense on every possession.

We always want to play great defense and we've looked pretty good so far.

We always talk about packing our defense and our rebounding when we go on road trips. That's what we have to do.

We always start in some sort of press. Tonight our defense was relentless.

We always say our defense gets our offense going.

Susan Rice

When you look at a secretary of defense who has been as forceful and effective as Donald Rumsfeld, for good or for ill, he's a tough customer,

Mike Shanahan

When you do that, it makes it hard for your defense to play four quarters at the level that we expect them to play. We did not do a very good job on offense. I can not put my thumb on it, because there was some great effort, guys played hard, but you have to have eleven guys out there playing together. One guy here (and) one guy there just doesn't get it done.

Michelle Gardner

When you don't score, it doesn't matter how many runs you give up. We played very solid defense. We made a few mistakes here and there, but really, for the most part, our defense did a great job. Our hitting is going to come around. I'm very pleased with the effort the kids gave. They played hard.