Famous Quotes & Sayings

He can run. He can catch. He can block, ... He's our long-snapper and he plays as well on the defensive side as he does on offense.

Hector had a nice game at shortstop for us. I felt Eugene Julien was a little rusty out there, so I gave him the night off. Hector made some nice defensive plays in the field, got a big hit and drove in a big run.

He killed us. We had some breakdowns in our defensive rotations, which we usually don't do.

Hannah directs traffic and provides lots of cohesion for us on the defensive end. She has great vision seeing the entire field and knows the defensive scheme. She is a vocal leader and our players listen to her.

Groff kept making good pitches to get out of jams, and we made some good defensive plays to help her out. She's the kind of a pitcher who can get herself out of a jam with one pitch because she gets so many ground balls, and we're going to turn two when you hit one at somebody.

Tyler Hansbrough

I always think there are things I can do to improve. I could have finished some shots, or gotten some defensive stops. But I'll keep on trying to improve and look forward to the next game.

Mike Scioscia

He was very comfortable on the defensive end.

He was the leader of the defensive unit. His plan was to have a great game. He played flawlessly. Everything he did was the right decision.

He was the key to their game, getting offensive and defensive rebounds, going to the goal. He was going to do whatever it took.

He's a young guy. We've got to go out there and make things difficult for him, ... If our defensive line can get in his face, I think that's going to make things hard for him." ()

He had a tremendous defensive rebound and they fouled him. He had missed his last three free throws, but he stepped up and drained them both.

He hasn't met a shot he wouldn't take, and he loves to play the game. He's worked real hard on his defensive game, and it shows.

Ned Yost

He has made tremendous defensive improvement at every position. He's good at all of them.

He has to learn the defensive scheme of the pro game.

Brian Johnson

He had 18 defensive rebounds. We didn't do a good job of getting any offensive rebounds. Our lack of getting second-chance points was huge.

Brady Quinn

He'll definitely come on and be physical with a linebacker or a defensive back or whoever.

He'll be the quarterback of the defense. We're going to be a lot faster, especially on the defensive end.

Ben Gordon

I didn't notice them stepping up the defensive pressure. I just noticed my missing shots.

Rich Rodriguez

I don't ever remember having five turnovers and still winning the game. Syracuse had a good defensive plan. We were scrambling all day on offense.

Kirk Hinrich

I don't know what they shot, but we're a defensive team and should have had it on that end tonight. I really don't know how to explain it, except to say we weren't ready on that end.

If Brittany's shot falls and we play smarter on the defensive end, this game was over at the half.

I did not feel we played very well inside (on the defensive line), and I was disappointed because they had played at a better level.

Antawn Jamison

Gilbert, Caron and myself have got it going offensively. We know that night in and night out that we can do it offensively, it's just that on the defensive end we have to really give the effort 100 percent and really make it tough on our opponents. Once we do that, we really put ourselves in position to win games.

Mike Babcock

Four games in five nights and playing a good defensive team on the road, we must be doing something right.

Byron Scott

Fourteen down, in this league, with 12 minutes left in the game is nothing. We relaxed. On the defensive end, they get any shot they want. And then you try to pick it back up offensively, and you're dead. We have done that three or four times already this season.

Mitch Kupchak

From a leadership point of view, a defensive point of view, and being able to offensively run what we do here, there's no reason why he can't be very successful and help us right away.

From a pitching and defensive standpoint, we played well enough to win. We just have to start taking that lump out of our throats offensively.

Tamika Catchings

From that first day to where we are now, we have grown so much, ... And we have the potential to be an even better defensive team.

We have to go up there and have another defensive mindset and get the job done.

We have to force them to be one dimensional. We need to take away the run, put them in passing situations and then let our defensive line and secondary do what they do best. We've had a good pass rush, and we have a good secondary.

We have some depth on the defensive line. We just don't have any game experience.

We wanted to try to set the tone on the defensive end and really take it to Albany early. We felt like we wanted to establish our presence here at home and I thought we did a great job of that early on.

We were trying to make our defensive pressure so great to put pressure on them.