Famous Quotes & Sayings

We have to focus on playing solid defense to minimize scoring opportunities for our opponents because we probably aren't going to put up the numbers we put up last year. But winning by one or two is the same result as winning by four or five.

Junior Seau

Whenever the defense needed to get off the field, we didn't execute. We recognize that, and hopefully it won't happen again.

When you score that little in a fourth quarter, it's usually part defense and part just missing some shots.

Charles Tillman

Defense is on the fly, it's reactive; you have to react to the offense. I have to prevent someone from doing something when they want to do it.

Alan Bennett

We have smaller defensive ends, but they're quick. They'll be OK. Everybody knows their job, and our defense is better this year. If we play better in the second half of the game this year, we'll do better.

Adam Kennedy

There is no doubt about it. It is a big situation, a big game, a fun game. It is fun to play defense like that and make big plays for your pitcher.

Ted Cruz

We need leaders who will stand unapologetically in defense of marriage.

We know we're good. But now we want to be great. And playing tough defense is one way to get there.

We know we have to come out strong this way every time we play this team. The guys have just been playing great defense in front of me. I didn't see much tonight, especially in the second period.

David Korten

The professional study of economics has become ideological brainwashing. It is a defense of the excesses of the capitalist system.

We are hitting a lot better. Defense and pitching were also very strong for us.

We did not hit as well as we did last week. Our defense did look good. We made plays when it really counted.

We did do better in the second half as we played a much better game. Our defense still has a lot to work on.

We did come back, but we dug ourselves too big a hole. We've been struggling on defense and tried something tonight. We have to adapt. Personally, I didn't get on the shooters when I needed to. I feel like I let my teammates down defensively.

We want to show our defense is going to be better.

Bill Snyder

The positive side is that we put together about 12 minutes of play where our offense, defense and kicking game played probably as well as we could play at this particular point of the season. That was only 12 or so minutes, though.

We are pretty strong at defense and midfielder.

We've always been known for our defense. We have so many seniors and they've worked so hard. Defense is just what we try to do.

We've all had a month to prepare for this game, so they've all been studying us in and out. Everyone hyped this up to be an offensive game, and definitely the defense stepped up better than the offense did.

We usually play better defense than that. That's usually the thing that keeps us in games.

Jack Smith

We started playing better on defense and I think Eagle Valley got a little worn down. In the third and fourth quarters, they (Rifle) kept the intensity up, which I appreciate.

We started playing better defense and took charge. We did some good things offensively and played much better defense in the second half.

We struggle sometimes on offense, but we play hard on defense every second we're out there.

We struggled for everything on offense all night. Give Dickinson State's defense credit, they worked hard.

We struggled as a team. They played their game and I feel like we could have been more mentally focused tonight. I know it starts with me -- point guard, leadership. I wouldn't take anything away from the defense (Delaware State) played, but I think more than anything we could have come out and been more mentally strong.

We struggled, and I thought Kentucky's tenacity on defense had a lot to do with it. They were swarming and really played physical. I thought their defense impacted us in a big way.

We still pushed the tempo when we had the opportunities to. They slowed it down but our half-court defense was pretty sound.

We still played good defense in the first half, but our shots just weren't falling, ... Our defense was clicking. In the second half, we just started knocking them down. We were attacking, and our energy was up.

Tom Izzo

We still played good defense and pretty good offense. We shot 50%, 40-something from three.

We started out slow on offense, but I thought our defense held us in. It could have been a 20-point quarter, but we held them to 8. We played a lot better in the second quarter. We loosened up and got it down to a manageable deficit. It was only four a halftime.

We started out slow, but we just tightened up our defense on the basketball.

We started out slow again. Our last three games we've scored four, four and eight points in the first quarter. I don't know why we're starting out so flat. We have to come out stronger. We played great defense though and you can't say enough about that.

We started out really sluggish. We were not up on defense or at the plate in the beginning. Everyone contributed to this win.