Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ozzie Guillen

To me, our pitching and our defense weren't strong enough (in '04), ... Now we can win games 3-2 with a squeeze. Last year, it never went through my mind to squeeze.

We were tired of being told that the defense isn't any good. That we don't have any good players. That we can't tackle. As a professional, it's week to week. You have another week to redeem yourself.

Spencer Hawes

This year we've come together as a team and we've emphasized family. Our defense is 10 times better than last year. I'm so excited about what we can do in the district championship and at state.

This year's success reminded me why I wanted to come here. I like to play physical defense.

We just have to play defense. Our defense has to get better.

Brad Boyes

We didn't give up a lot. Our defense played well, limited their chances. They didn't get a lot and it was a key part to our victory.

We didn't give Ravenna many good looks at the basket. We've been working hard on our defense in practice.

We didn't get it done on either shot. It doesn't matter what you do on defense if you don't protect the backboards.

We didn't get back to stop them on defense in transition in the second half. Overall, we just did not do the job we needed to do on the defensive end. Offensively, we got some good shots, but they just didn't drop.

We didn't get back on defense and they got a lot of baskets off the transition or we put them at the foul line.

We didn't get a lot of steals from the defense but we did disrupt their offense and took them out of their flow.

Ron Dayne

We didn't get all our third downs, and that was the thing that kept the defense on the field so much. We just have to keep working on it. We did better than we did last week. We're getting better and improving.

We did not play very focused and didn't execute on offense, defense or fast break. We started the game down 15-0 and fought back to tie the game in the third quarter at 33, but we let Sweeny go on a 16-0 run. We had too many mental breakdowns, and we need to win some games on the road to have a shot at doing something in district.

We did not play defense well. We are going to have to get a whole lot better when we get back into region play. I am glad to get the win, but we made too many errors.

We had a 10-minute letdown after our goal. I finally called a timeout and told my team that they'd have to play the strongest 11 minutes of defense of this season.

We got lazy with our defense and rebounding after jumping out to an early lead. After a halftime talk, we played harder and picked up the intensity in the second half.

We are starting to realize we have to hit to win games. The defense can't do it all the time. Hopefully we can reach our goal and win the rest of our region games.

We are starting to play much better as a team. We're helping on defense and we're not being as selfish on the offensive end. It's nice to see and it's nice to be a part of it again.

Kevin Kelly

To think about how many yards he put up in such a short time this season, it's truly remarkable. I think that kind of shows those schools that were looking at him only on defense that he had the right idea.

Lawrence Frank

We only had three field goals, but more importantly, we gave up 27 points. We just had some defensive breakdowns. Sometimes we played good defense and they made shots. That's why we're tipping our hats to them.

Phil Jackson

We obviously need his defense at some level. It's good to have him back in the offense, but we weren't smooth with him in there offensively, though.

We pitched well in tight games. Pitching and defense were our strengths today.

We pitched well and played great defense, and then we did some good things on offense. It was just a great overall win for this team.

We pitched well and played defense well but we weren't real disciplined at the plate.

We picked up the pace on defense and started playing like we can and we were fine.

We picked up the intensity with our full-court defense and started getting turnovers and steals and quick shots. That stopped for some reason.

We picked our defense up in the second half. Every kid on the floor played defense as hard as they could. I am so proud of how our kids fought back.

E. O. Wilson

We picked it up on defense. Defense was the name of the fourth quarter.

We perked up a little bit. We played our zone offense a little better, and our defense always kicks in.

Rex Grossman

With a guy like Moose, you don't have to make a perfect throw. He runs great routes, he's got terrific hands, and he's a guy the opposing defense has to respect. He just makes our whole offense better.

We've been down in previous games, we just battled back and knew our defense would get us back in the game.

We've been doing a better job these last few games of keeping our defense up the whole game. That's the key for us.

We've been disruptive on defense when people come through the lane.