Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

My defense played excellent again. Offensively we're in a rut. We need to be able to finish.

My defense is tough. We're in every game because of my defense.

My defense is our key. They're showing people they can dominate. Cuddy is one of the most improved players on the team, and Ballard has been a hidden treasure for us. I can put Toombs anywhere.

Jerome Bettis

My defense bailed me out. I can leave here with my head up high.

Allan Ray

Monmouth is a great defensive team or they wouldn't be here. This is the NCAA Tournament and there are a lot of great teams here. We kept our composure. We knew there were times when we weren't going to be able to score, but that's when we relied on our defense to keep us in the game.

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Garth Snow

More than anything, our team defense hasn't played up to potential.

Aaron Gray

Maybe it was a lack of our defense. They got a lot of wide-open looks and they missed a lot of wide-open looks, too.

Obviously they lead the Pac-10 in defense for a reason. At the same time, it's not something we haven't seen this year. To me it was more our lack of execution than what ASU was doing.

Obviously I'm real happy with the way we are hitting the ball. I think our defense could be a little tighter, but we are on a roll.

Obviously, Matt has a lot of experience. It will be important to us that he keeps our young defense intact early in the season.

Obviously, I would like us to play better offensively. Our defense was good all five games. We'd like to score more points and be more fluid, but I think that's something that can come as the season goes on.

Obviously, 50 percent or more of their offense is Tony. We scouted the Lewisburg game last Saturday and they used a diamond-and-one defense and it worked pretty well. Levi and Ethan (Lee) had Tony most of the game and they did a great job. The other guys in the zone did a great job of doubling down and helping out those guys with him.

We were definitely all over the place on defense. Defense just sparks our offense so many times. I definitely felt that we were really together tonight.

We were concentrating on making it over this hurdle. I just told the ladies to settle down and stay focused. I didn't understand how their defense shut our offense down. It was great competition. I'm thankful, and it can only help prepare us for the state game.

When you can shut down that (Minnesota) offense, that running game, that's a pretty good sign of how good your defense is. So, we're going to have a challenge.

When you can hold them with (6-foot-8 senior and Northern Iowa recruit Adam) Koch to 16 in a half, you're doing all right. But their defense was even better than ours. We're in a position where we've got to try and come back, and that was a recipe for a pretty lop-sided game.

She spent a lot of her own time working individually on her skills, her footwork, getting to the basket. In practice this year she put time in on defense and skills that she knew weren't as strong.

Dusty Baker

Some of it has to do with the fact that we have a strikeout pitching staff. I always liked my teams at the top of the league in defense and double plays. Any time you can get two outs on one pitch, it's a lot less pitches for your pitchers. A lot of times, it gets you out of the inning out of trouble.

Luke Babbitt

Some nights the shots just don't fall. When that happens you just have to play good defense and kind of grind out the win.

She had a rough first inning. Hopefully that was just the first game jitters. She settled in after that and threw a real nice game. I was pleased with that and with our defense overall.

She did a good job. We kind of let her down on defense a little bit.

She handled their defense and got us in our offense. She really had a great game for us.

She had two steals in that quarter for us, and I think that got us the momentum back. We emphasize defense in practice. Those are the things you need to win games.

Six games in two days. I'm proud of the team. We played outstanding defense and it was a great weekend for us.

She's a great shooter. Fortunately, we hit some big free throws and had some really big stops on defense at the end.

She's a good shooter, and she worked really hard this year. She did a really nice job of getting herself in position to score, and she's got a nice touch. She improved a lot on defense and did a good job on the boards.