Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vince Young

We've been through this before, ... And I was walking down the sideline telling the guys, 'Man, we've been through this play by play, the defense is going to give us the ball.' And they did a great job.

We just have to go out and play like a team. Defense wins championships.

We're progressing. I'm pleased with our recent improvement in rebounding and defense.

We took some risks on defense and that may have been why we rushed some things on offense. We got out of our offensive flow, but we won and that's what counts.

We took a lot of good shots in the first half, but they just weren't going in. We played better defense in the second half, which led to easy baskets for us.

We talked at halftime that if our defense could buckle down and keep them out of the end zone that we would win the game. That was the key.

We're one mission. The girls know we play with defense and all we want to do is get the pressure on and the up-tempo game going.

Gilbert Arenas

We're playing together. We're sharing the ball. We're trusting each other on defense and on offense.

We're playing the way we're supposed to play and aren't doing anything crazy. Our pitchers are throwing strikes, our defense has only one error in the last four games and we're hitting the baseball, and I knew we had the talent to do it.

Avery Johnson

When he's on his game and he's playing tough, hard-nosed defense and getting rebounds, getting some assists, guarding one of the better perimeter players and scoring, I'm a much better coach.

Gary Payton

We've got to take it upon ourselves to play defense as individuals.

Bill Cowher

We've got to play our A game in all three phases - offense, defense and special teams - or we're not going to win this Super Bowl.

With Mathieu and Chris, I feel very good about our defense for this season. Mathieu had a great year for us in '03-04 and we tried to sign him last summer.

We talk about transition every day. We really want to push the ball. And our defense dictates that.

Anthony Brown

We talk about that a lot. We're going to have a lightning-quick point guard, and we all play defense, so we're going to be able to lock up on defense and score on offense.

We talk about our offense might slump a bit, but defense never slumps. You have to play defense all the time and we did a good job of that.

We talk about expecting to win and wanting to win, and right now these kids want to win. There was no panic tonight. Our kids played hard and executed late on defense and got some key rebounds.

We switched up our defense from a man-to-man to a drop defense, where several players would drop on one of their main players.

We told the girls all week if we could keep them between 45 and 55 points we would be in the game. They did even better than that. We prided ourselves on defense all year. That's a very talented team we held in check.

We tightened up our defense in the second half.

Dwyane Wade

His will is unbelievable. You can't play better defense than Gary (Payton) had on him. He can just raise up and jump over you and shoot. You have to tip your hat to a guy like that.

Marcus Ginyard

He's going to make those shots. Even over great defense.

He's going to be the first defense witness.

He's been vocalizing what the defense needs to do, which really helps us.

Ricky Phillips

He's fitting in really well. He's fitting into the scheme surprisingly well. He's a quick learner; he learned the defense really quick from what I hear. Personality-wise, he's great.

Thad Matta

He's finishing better than he was earlier in the season. His defense was 100 times better than the last time we played Michigan.

He's been great on defense this year. He's been a great example for our young big guys. He's a great off-the-ball defender, and some of the little things he does don't always show up on the stat sheet. We're going to miss him a lot. Other guys have to step up and do a great job.

He's done everything. Gotten big hits, played defense well, run the bases. He's playing today, so he's still in the mix.

Under our new organization, you will have defense coordinating officers and their staffs located within the 10 (Federal Emergency Management Agency) regions.

We have to be leaders out there. The linebackers are kind of like the quarterbacks of the defense.

We have time to prepare for the type of defense they play, hopefully be better prepared, and plus we're playing at home. Maybe it will be a little different this time now that we're at home.

We look faster. We want to get our fast people up to the ball. Defense is attitude.

Eric Schmidt

We lost our identity in Grand Forks and we needed to get back to doing the things that made us successful early in the year, namely playing better on defense and getting points in transition.