Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ben Howland

This is an incredible defensive team. It's why we are where we are.

Lawrence Frank

This is how we play. When we play at a high level it starts on the defensive end. As a result you are able to get some easy baskets.

Paul Pierce

This is a poor defensive team. This is not a very good team. They have very good talent, but not a very good team.

This is probably one of the better defensive games we've played all year.

Ken Green

The way we were defending, I knew we'd be around. It looked like it would be a defensive struggle.

This game should be a good opportunity for us to work on several things. We still have some work to do to become a 40-minute defensive team.

There was just a lack of defensive effort.

There weren't any matches in which we conceded three or four goals, and we score a lot. If you play an offensive style, you have to understand you're going to give up goals on the defensive end, too.

There were 275 teams (in Division-II) last year and we were the No. 1 defensive team in the country. That double play was a nice way to end the game, and that was the hard way. That was third to second to first.

This is the second-best defensive team in the nation. You can't prepare for that. We can't practice that kind of heat.

Brad Soderberg

This is who we are. We've established ourselves as a defensive team, but our offense comes and goes. We missed a lot of open shots in the second half. We have to find a way to pull those out.

Bill Cowher

They pretty much dominated us, ... Our offense to their defense, they were pretty smothering out there, and we really couldn't get anything going. Their offense and their defensive front pretty much dominated tonight, and you can't deny that.

Steve Schmidt

They're a tough well-balanced defensive team. It should be a tough game.

They're an impressive team, especially on the defensive side. They played a lot harder than we did, which is why they deserved to win tonight.

Dwyane Wade

They really wanted it tonight and it showed. I don't think our team was as focused as we should have been, especially on the defensive end of the floor.

They're solid - they don't have any weaknesses that I can see. I think we're going to have to press the whole game and defensive rebounding (will be important).

E. O. Wilson

As defensive players, you love to get after the quarterback. It gives you an opportunity to make big plays. And when we starting doing that, some big plays started showing up.

Essence Carson

As a defensive team, that's what you want to see. You want to make them scramble. Just to see that look in their eyes, it made us see that we still had a chance.

Mike Rucker

As a defensive lineman you have to find yourself other ways to make plays and get yourself in the game,

They played really hard. We played hard in spurts. It's the first time in a long time we got outplayed. We're not a great scoring team. When we don't have a defensive mind-set, we're in trouble.

Michael Vick

They played a great defensive scheme. They did some things that threw us off balance.

Michael Vick

They played a great defensive scheme, ... They did some things that threw us off-balance.

They got a lot of easy buckets in transition, either getting rebounds or steals. They just got a lot of run-outs, and we didn't get back and we didn't play Duke defense. We didn't play like our normal selves on the defensive end. That made a big difference in this game.

They go hand-in-hand... we haven't put up a good defensive and offensive game together.

They had great speed and quickness. I felt at times our defensive played well. The defensive line had a good run and shut them down in the third quarter.

They had as many offensive rebounds as we did defensive rebounds. Matt Wayne was the difference. We couldn't keep him off the boards.

Joe Horn

They had a pretty good game plan, ... Their defensive coordinator game-planned us pretty good.

They had a good defensive game plan. But we had a good defensive game plan, too.

They executed their offensive and defensive game plans pretty well.

They are a solid defensive team. They don't have a standout kid.

Mike Williams

They are bigger, faster and stronger than Daleville. Their offensive and defensive line looks better than what we've seen so far this season. They've got a good football team, but they just ran into a buzzsaw in Prattville.

They are so big and so strong inside. We didn't rebound well enough, but I think we guarded well enough. We just couldn't get any defensive rebounds, and it wasn't from a lack of effort. We battled and competed, so I'm proud of my kids.

Pete MacArthur

You don't get tired when you pin your guy and get the puck out right away. You have more energy on offense. It definitely has a lot to do with the defensive side of the puck.