Famous Quotes & Sayings

It's a hurtful loss, but that's part of playing football. Any time you lose a defensive lineman, that hurts you.

I told the defensive linemen they can single-handedly win the game for us. I'm relying on our defensive linemen to keep him in the pocket so we can play normal football.

I told the kids, what did we do good tonight? We made so many mistakes. This was the first time I've been disappointed in our defensive effort.

I told the team in the locker room that until we develop a defensive pride, nothing is going to change.

I told them we've got to have a defensive mindset. We're not good in high-scoring games. I thought we did some really good things in this game but we just didn't play well in the last four minutes.

I told them to just be patient and keep doing what we do and not to get out of our element. Nazareth played a great defensive game all day, so I told them to be patient. We just needed to be sure that we got a good look.

Cadillac Williams

It's very complicated, especially when you have some of these defensive gurus who come with all kinds of blitzes and stunts. It's very confusing. You really have to be on your technique and know what you're doing.

Fontainebleau is a tough defensive team, and they played hard throughout.

For about 24, 25 minutes we played real hard. They just have so many good players. That's the difference between their team and our team. They have seniors who are real athletic, real experienced. Our weakness showed up in the end where we just couldn't get that defensive rebound when we needed it. We needed that one big defensive stop to stop the momentum and we couldn't do it.

Jim Boeheim

I'm disappointed at this stage of the year that we're not a better defensive team, and that's why we're in the position we're in.

I'm really proud of our kids and their defensive effort. We held them to seven in the fourth quarter and we had about five defensive stops in a row in the fourth that turned the game for us.

I'm real happy from a defensive standpoint in the way that we played. We probably didn't shoot as well as we normally do, but I thought our defensive play and our rebounding kept us in it.

I like a fast tempo in practice but we have to slow some things down. We're teaching the players when to go hard and when you can back off. We're lean everywhere. We have just seven offensive linemen and the defensive line has had injuries. Running back and linebacker have the most depth and that isn't a ton right now.

Ben Howland

I laugh at some of these commentators who say they are not a good defensive team. They hold opponents to 43 percent from the field.

I hope we don't need him at defensive tackle.

They hit some shots and we had some defensive lapses.

They kept responding to our buckets. We just had to keep playing (hard). We got some defensive stops (late in the game).

They just went immediately into defensive mode. It could easily have jumped to numerous other buildings.

They just owned us with their defense. They smothered us with their defensive pressure.

Byron Scott

It was just a lack of defensive mentality tonight. We didn't do a good job keep guys in front of us.

Jim Dowd

It was just one of those things. You just keep going. This is a pressure-type team. They want to go without giving up on the defensive side.

It was a frustrating night. They play a defensive system, especially when they get the lead. You could see it. Guys were squeezing the sticks a little bit, and we couldn't get another one past their goalie.

Mark Richt

It was just a great field position game, a great defensive battle. We had to stay patient, as much as we hated it, and let our special teams do their job -- then knock it in when we needed to.

Gary Patterson

It was just a game with a lot of plays and a lot of football action. I think most people enjoyed it. I even did, and I'm a defensive guy.

They've had trouble scoring and they've got some injury situations. I expect it to be a defensive game. I think we'll see some fallback and some neutral zone trapping.

Terry Porter

The thing I really like about her is her presence on the offensive and defensive boards.

Kay Yow

Not to pick this game up tonight means we really have got to come through somewhere and win a game or two that nobody expects us to win. It just seemed that in the second half our defensive intensity wasn't there until the last four or five minutes.

Not just from an offensive standpoint, but from a defensive standpoint, we got tremendous contributions from several players.

That's a big part of our offense, but it doesn't define us. We're going to look to get it done on the defensive end because that's where it starts.

Doc Rivers

It's still close, ... I think Delonte does more on the defensive end, and you want a defensive presence starting a game.

A.J. Hawk

It's special. As a defensive guy, you don't get to score touchdowns very often. It's a great way to go out. It gives us great momentum going into next week.

Everyone knows him as a terrific scorer, and he is, but he's made a great effort getting everyone else involved. And he's really picked up his game on the defensive end.

The big kid killed us early. Our defensive effort the first half was just terrible.