Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Brady

The thing that was most impressive to me is we didn't foul on the last shot. And I've seen teams lose games because they're undisciplined and they foul. He took a tough shot. I thought he traveled before he shot. Our team did the five-switch defense on their own, which was good for them to be able to do, considering up until that point we hadn't really made too many good decisions.

The thing about volleyball is if you don't have others on the court, you can't win. We don't have the same offensive power we have had, but we have equal -- if not better -- defense and ball control. You can't throw a game like volleyball on the shoulders of one person.

Steve Smith

The thing about their defense is that there is no trick about it. We know how they are. We saw how hard they hit and how hard they play.

Quentin Richardson

The thing is, we're concentrating on defense and stopping teams. That to me is making a big difference.

I've never been able to play defense in my life. I knew that from the first second on the floor, I was going to be dominated on the defensive side.

I've never been able to play defense in my life.

Adam Carriker

I've always been a Husker fan. Growing up, I remember the defense had 50-some sacks. Last year wasn't half as many. That's not good. It wasn't acceptable.

Gary Baxter

The moves they made in the off-season, those are key ingredients to a winning record. I think guys are excited about the fact that we really made some strong moves and put some guys in place on offense and defense to try to help this team get in better position to win and compete.

After one game, if I go in there and say, 'OK, guys, this 3-4 sucks, so I'm throwing it out,' and after another game, 'Hey, this new defense I put in last week sucks, so I'm throwing that out,' then they don't have a system, they don't have a defense and they don't know what to hang their hat on,

After I missed the first shot, I think I started rushing. I never did get a rhythm offensively in the game, so that's all that happened. It wasn't anything the defense was doing.

The most important part of our team is teamwork and defense we play. Everybody was into it.

Anthony Spencer

Stop the run and make them pass. That is how we are operating on defense right now.

Randy Foye

Some teams play man, some teams play zone, so in practice we just go with everything to be ready for whatever defense we're going to play that night,

Bob Burns

Something like secretary of defense or state would be hard to turn down.

Bob McNair

Some people think this is a ploy. It's not. We think he's just as dominant a player on defense as Reggie is on offense. The thing we've been missing has been a pass rush.

Southwest has an excellent team. They rushed for 412 yards last week and their defense shut out Siloam.

Kevin Stallings

Sparks can make you stretch your defense more than you want. I think it shows how much teams respect him that he still was not getting many open looks even when he was not shooting well. Nobody wants to let him get on a roll with his shooting because if he does, he can shoot you out of a game.

Sound, disciplined defense. That's what Navy defense is all about.

Once we went back to man-to-man (defense), they were long gone.

Once we started playing hard defense we started scoring easy baskets.

One guy shot, and another guy tipped it out to another dude who missed it at the buzzer. I was not thinking about Holy Cross. I was thinking about hustling on defense and the fact we won the game.

Takeo Spikes

Once you have an offense down like that, in order to be a great defense (you) don't let up, don't take the foot off the pedal. We're definitely not feeling sorry for anybody. You should have prepared better.

On defense we were real solid today. We are starting to do the little things right that lead to wins.

Sometimes you fight back like that and it takes all your energy. We needed to play better defense in the first half.

Sometimes we play good defense and it's a letdown once you let them get an offensive rebound. The key to getting stops is stopping 'em, making 'em take a tough shot and then wrapping up the possession with a rebound.

Kevin Smith

Ronda really was key to the case. Her testimony blasted their whole defense that (Baker) was at fault.

Runs get scored when you walk guys. The defense gets back on their heels and things happen that you don't want to happen.

Runs are going to be at a premium. Every team has two guys they can run out there that can be very good. Defense is definitely going to be key.

Saint Joseph's defense switched, and we had a hard time running our patterns.

Prosecutors need to keep the jury interested. If the defense drags it out too much, if it all seems too complicated, a jury might think since they themselves didn't understand, that's enough for reasonable doubt about guilt.

Daniel Wallace

Publishing is tough. As a writer, if I'd murdered my family, that'd be a great gift, not to my family maybe, but definitely to my book. Oprah's defense (of Frey) just doesn't work. You can't say a memoir is 90% true. Which 90%? It's cheating.

Ryan Fitzpatrick

Public-private partnerships have enabled the U.S. Department of Defense to vastly improve the efficiency of its housing modernization program as well as the quality, management, and maintenance of the homes.

Purdue played great defense and we didn't knock down some open shots. Then we started fouling a lot, and we really didn't play the way we wanted to.