Famous Quotes & Sayings

His defensive intensity is what set him apart. He has a desire to win.

Randy Foye

His impact to the game is he brings, like, a ton of energy. He is always running the floor, always on the glass - offensive glass and defensive glass. He is the leader.

Mike White

Choteau played a good defensive game. On offense, they really mixed it up well between running and passing.

He struggled early on as a sophomore offensively, but defensively he's been as smooth as any shortstop I've had. He's really a great defensive shortstop. Now, he's made himself into a better hitter, a better offensive player. He can do it all. He can run, he can throw, he can catch. He's very smart and he's a great hitter now.

He's the linchpin in the makeup of this team. I don't think I've had a better defensive player, with the exception of A.J. Gonzalez.

He's long, he's sturdy, he goes after everything on the defensive end. Offensively, he has a pretty good jump hook. He's a heck of a player.

Pat Riley

He's amazing. He gave us the defensive lift we really needed.

He's a hitter. He's a great defensive catcher. And he also has a great relationship with the pitchers. The pitchers trust him, and that's important to us.

He's a guy who gets off the ball. They're looking more for a 3-4 type of defensive lineman.

Dwane Casey

He's a one-man wrecking crew. We spent the whole night trying to figure out the offensive sets around where he was on the play. He's a great player. He's one of the guys you have to think about for Defensive Player of the Year.

Gardiner's defensive pressure was unmatched. It was something we hadn't seen all year.

Gerard's smiling, laughing and really into what's happening here in the defensive game plan. He feels like it's all for one and one for all, and I can see that.

Good teams might win games, but games like this you have to win on the defensive end.

Joe Gibbs

I know he's disappointed not making more of an impact, not playing more, ... It's something we just have to work our way through. I think our defensive schemes are trying to use all of our people. In this case, I could see people saying, 'Hey, I don't understand that.' But I think it's just something we're working our way through as we scheme it up. It's just one of those things.

I haven't seen too many guys spend their summers in a defensive stance.

Santonio Holmes

I haven't seen (Ginn) run any real routes,'' said senior defensive back Cedric Griffin.

I haven't like our defensive effort in the second half at all lately. We knew (Brown) would be fresh in the second half. We felt like they'd got right to them. They did, and he was effective.

I haven't had one day with my entire offensive or defensive line. I've yet to have my whole line together. So it'll be interesting.

I really don't know what went wrong. We had a few defensive breakdowns, especially toward the end. But I really thought our kids did a great job tonight. That was a very good team we played.

I really liked our defensive energy and effort. We competed with a sense of urgency.

He's just a really good athlete. We had holes we needed to fill on the defensive line and we felt like he could do the job for us and he did.

Randy Carlyle

He's our guy. He plays major minutes, he's our captain. He plays on all situations on the defensive side and the offensive side of the puck. He makes it look so easy night in and night out. He's very efficient in how he goes about his business.

He's one of the top defensive players in the state I think. He's also a very good outside shooter, so he can help in that regard as well.

I don't know if we got (our) heads down because our shots weren't falling or what. Seems like that lack of effort transferred over to the defensive end as well. The first half was just awful.

I don't know if he's dysfunctional or (if it's because) defensive linemen take a lot of shots to the head,

Jim Calhoun

Hilton we lost for about two weeks. He got to the Big East tournament, was the defensive player of the year and he had a little letdown. I don't know what it was. He's such an emotional kid. But we've got him back and thank God we got him back tonight.

He's so quick that he can put a move on someone, and you can't even see what he did. I think he is the top defensive player in the state.

He's stronger than most guards. He's quicker. Guys like him are special to play next to. They make a defensive end's life easier.

Their sophomore year, I put the guys down as defensive linemen to make them tough. I did the same thing with Pepper Johnson and Kevin Brooks.

Their earnings are more defensive than much of the discretionary retail sector and they manage it better. It's helping them in this period and will keep helping them in the future.

Their defensive pressure really started taking over and it took us out of our game from the second quarter on. They were in our face from baseline to baseline and we had a hard time getting any flow.

Their defensive pressure on the perimeter just took us out of anything we could on the offensive end. They got off to a great start and we never answered.

Their defensive package is nuts. They come from everywhere. I'll have a handful of players to block. It could be a two or three different d-linemen, it could be two or three different linebackers so I'd say five or six different guys I could be blocking.