Famous Quotes & Sayings

We've been scoring points; that's not our problem. Our defense has left us. The way you play defense is with hustle and heart, and I hope we get that back.

Jason Terry

We've been relying on the defense a lot more. That's starting to be the new motto for our team; starting to be our reputation now.

We were really good for three quarters and five minutes. The last seven minutes we weren't very good on defense or offense.

We weren't as sharp as we have been, but the defense was great today, especially on the line.

We were not emotional enough early, and then we could never get it back going. I thought the game was more important to them than it was us. We just seemed in slow motion early. Our defense was good, but our offense was really bad.

Scott Skiles

We waited too long to start playing. We kind of sleep-walked through 2-1/2 quarters. Then near the end of the third quarter, we finally started getting aggressive. We started driving the ball, and our defense picked up. We clawed ourselves back into the game.

Lloyd Carr

We've worked hard on it, but the key to the Nebraska defense is up-front four. That'll be a real test for us.

We were worried about them. We just kept our feet moving and packed it in on defense to (slow) the penetration.

We don't play defense like that, we never have and never will again. That 16 minutes was the ugliest thing I've seen on defense.

We have momentum going. We hope to keep riding the wave as long as it can take us. We feel pretty good. The spirit and morale are pretty high right now. We're playing defense and the offense looks good.

Jim Calhoun

We have Marcus Williams who made big plays down the stretch. We turned up the defense the last four or five minutes.

We will need pitching, great defense and pressure on offense to be successful.

When the doldrums went away, I think we got a sense of urgency and started executing. When we execute and our defense stops them like we were stopping them, then we're going to become a good football team.

When the defense has to worry about what you're going to do it's so much easier.

When we played them at Rhode Island, they were faster than us. They were more physical than us. They played better defense than us. They had better special teams than us. But we've gotten a lot better in all those areas.

When we play defense with that kind of energy, we're as good a team as I've ever seen.

When we watched the film, about half the time Carolina's defense wasn't even fully set when we're snapping the ball. Whether that's how they wanted it or how they were playing it, I don't know.

When we've lost games it's been because of our transition defense and we've been selfish. I think we're over that.

We've overcome some injuries and we're starting to pick it up. Our defense wasn't as good tonight as the first time we played them so we have play better there, but it's good to be one win from states.

Aaron Gray

We watched a lot of film on him. He's a big key to their offense. When you're guarding him you can't leave him or he'll get an open shot. I also got great help defense from my teammates, and he missed some shots too. The combination is why he went scoreless.

We wasn't getting back in transition the first half. We kept putting them on the foul line. We stepped up our defense in the second half.

We wanted to establish ourselves early physically, and I thought we did that. Our defense kept 'em pinned up, so we had great field position all night.

We had some solid defense in the back. Our defense is learning to play as a group.

We'd been hearing that our team had the worst defense of the 12 teams that made the playoffs. They proved people wrong today. Can you play any better than that?

We are really happy that things went our way and we got the two wins at home. We have focused back on defense and mixing things up. They played the last two games really well defensively.

We are playing really well now. Our three-quarter-court, man-to-man defense really pressured them.

We are playing really strong defense right now. We have all season. But we have been focused in the playoffs. We've had to be because our offense hasn't been so good.

We are playing real good team defense so far and our penalty killing has been really good as well.

We are playing better defense -- the stats will prove that -- but for some reason the zone is not our forte.

We are out there having to play defense for 45 seconds. Olympia did a great job of it.

The overall kicking game, kickoffs as well as punting, helped us out tremendously. To pin them back like we did gave the defense an opportunity to put more pressure on them.

Dick Cheney

Don Rumsfeld is the finest secretary of defense the nation has ever had.

We (defense) did great; it was a lot of fun. We pretty much dominated the offense today.