Famous Quotes & Sayings

Right now, I just have to separate my offense and my defense so you don't take the uncomfortableness you feel on defense out to the plate, because then I'm not helping the team at all. It's like two separate games. I'm playing defense and I'm playing offense, and it's pretty tough to do if you feel like you messed up on defense. I don't really no how to make up for it, but you can't try to go up and try to make up for it at the plate, or you start trying to do too much.

Rich is a guy that I wanted on my staff when I went to Martin. We're going to use the same defense we ran at Martin, and he is very knowledgeable of that defense.

Rice has as good an offensive player as their is in the league. They start with him and that's important. Transition defense will be very important. They are a very good transition team. And defensively, they are doing a lot of different things.

(Petersen) is definitely our No. 1 defender. He's the only senior we have on defense, so he keeps the defense in check.

Perry has been good to us, but East Canton will be as tough if not the toughest team we've played this year. We're going to have to play good defense and go to our strengths.

Plus, ... her defense has improved. She's never been one of my quickest players, but she plays with so much heart that it gives her that extra quickness.

Ron Clarke

Poor effort. Our second-half defense wasn't perfect, but boy, they showed a lot of effort. We found our fighters (in the second half), those who will fight for us on the field.

Only letting in one in a whole, full game, that's an accomplishment especially when you are playing a good team like Putnam Valley. We stuck together on defense and we managed to pull out a pretty good win.

Sigi Schmid

One thing that Eddie gives us is a guy who can try to drop off the front line and come at the defense a little bit.

Richard Armitage

On the question of whether we will have missile talks about missile defense with North Korea -- right now, we are not talking with them about anything, but I suspect in the near future we will,

On offense, we just found the open holes. And we had the rebounding on defense. We kept them off the boards.

Kevin Stallings

I was fine with how we ran our offense, and I was fine with how we played defense. We turned it over a few more than our average. Tennessee is good at making you do that.

Orlando Hernandez

I was feeling good. I threw all my pitches. My team played very good on defense and hit good. It was a good night.

I was real pleased with the effort especially on defense. I thought that the defense responded well after giving up the touchdown.

I was real pleased with our defense tonight.

I was surprised our whole defense was freshmen except for me. But I'm glad it happened that way, because next year we're all going to be good again.

I was surprised by how low the score was especially in the first half, but I felt it played into our hands. Our girls played man-to-man defense as well as it can be played.

Eddie House

I was struggling the last three games, but I think our defense got us going. When we were down by 14, I think everybody stepped up.

Maybe we got through some of the nervousness. But I thought my girls played defense the way we have all year.

My job is usually to help the team by playing defense and leading the club. But they were giving me shots, so I had to take them. We all have the green light if we're open.

No doubt, defense was key down the stretch. I tell you what, Noah Cole is a talented, gutsy young man, and he stepped up and was the difference for Vidor tonight. They are a fundamentally sound team. They're hard to play, especially at their home.

Mike Babcock

One of the things that happens when you win all the time is, when you lose in overtime and lose the next night, it feels like you haven't won in months. But it's unreasonable; you can't go through this league without losing. Our discipline was good tonight and our defense really managed the puck.

One of our goals is to be in the top 10 in defense. Defense wins games and championships down the road. This team has gutted it out and played very solid defense.

Obviously we started slowly in the second half, it was disappointing, but their defense got after it. They're just a tremendous team. I thought we played a great game today. Obviously Georgia had too many weapons, they had such an inside presence with Humphrey.

No one expected her to shoot it, not at all. We played great defense and then it was kind of like nothing else was open and it just went in. Even all of the media up here were shocked. She had her night, she was hitting everything. It was a killer shot for us.

One thing we have this year is flexibility. We'll be able to move players around. We'll start with the defense we have back, and if we have to move people around, then we will.

James Crawford

One thing that we're working on is team defense. They work hard, communicate and get everybody involved. It kind of looks like a storm out there sometimes.

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.

Frank Beamer

Bud's defense played great. Getting a field goal returned and scoring three times, that's pretty special.

Basically, I knocked it in. But the defense played well. There were some shaky moments, but I'll take the number of shots they had on goal.