Famous Quotes & Sayings

We did the same thing to them. We took some line drives away and they took some line drives away. You hope that one or two mistakes don't hurt too much, and the defense and the pitching for the most part was pretty solid.

We did some nice things and made some improvement, but our interior defense was just way too soft. We've got to fix that.

Fred Smoot

We did some great things out there, but we need to be great when the situation comes. I don't think we did that today. All the guys I talk to on this defense want to be the reason we win ballgames, and by that token, we didn't play up to our standards today. So expect us to come out and play 10 times better next time.

We didn't play with the same drive we did in the first half. Our front on defense was standing and pushed around.

We got off to kind of a slow start. The second and third quarters, we clamped down on defense and were able to get some easy baskets in transition.

We're learning every day, and that's why we're turning the corner. I'm trying to take it one pitch at a time and let the defense do its thing. I'm trying to stay within myself.

We're kind of streaky like that. We started with a little lull there in the first half, but then we got a little hot. The key is to keep playing steady defense and rebounding.

We still have to improve on some things. Our full-court defense for one. We aren't satisfied with our season yet. We know we have to improve, and we keep working every game.

We still had a lot of defensive breakdowns, but it?s nice to see kids understand the fact that defense will keep you in a game regardless if you?re having a poor shooting night.

We played well from the start of the first game. We were eager to play and we played with passion from the start. I was very pleased with our pitching and our defense was solid.

We played well - especially in the second quarter. We just try to take what the defense will give us and our girls have done a nice job of finding the open person.

We played well despite what they were trying to do. That's all we can ask, man. They want you to be in a man-to-man defense to run the Princeton offense with back-door screens. We had success with them with a zone defense. That really was the difference in the game.

We played well defensively tonight. We also rebounded well and shot pretty good from the floor. It has been our defense and rebounding that has been getting it done for us this year.

We played well as a team, and our defense supported our pitchers.

We played nice defense in the second half. We did a good job rebounding and limited them to only one shot.

We play very good defense and we're a very good rebounding team. Those are our redeeming qualities.

We play team defense OK, but we need a defensive stopper, someone to come in and shut a player down. Luke played really hard today, and did some nice things defensively. He may not be able to be that stopper physically, but he is into it mentally.

We play such great defense, our kids take pride in it. Defense is what wins for us.

We play great defense in the third quarter, go into the fourth quarter and give up two scores, I can't explain it. This game was the worst exhibition of tackling at Nelson that I've seen in a long time.

We played with such passion in the fundamentals of the game - defense and the running game - which were the two things he loved.

We played with better emotion and worked hard for shots. Our team defense needs to improve.

We played well up to 70 minutes on defense and offense. The last 10 minutes we fell apart. It's one of those games we'd like to forget about. We want to learn from this game and move forward.

We played a men-to-men defense in the third quarter which shut them down.

We played a lot of defense in the first half. But that's not an excuse. You have to give Crestline credit.

We played a lot better defense after the first quarter. We went to a zone and that seemed to slow them down.

We played a good first half but our execution, defense and our teamwork all started lacking in the second half.

We played 40 minutes of solid defense. We didn't get in foul trouble. We want to play teams like Rhode Island and (teams in) the Big East where you know how the game is going to get called.

We play defensively as a team really well. We've been playing well all season long, but we play defense as a team. All 11 players are in on defense.

Joe Gill

We play a style where we pack it in and counterattack. Our defense did a good job. Brockton had a lot of shots, but most of them were from the outside.

We plan to be very vigorous in the defense of our intellectual property.

Bill Self

We probably played as good a defense the first 15 minutes as we've played all year. I thought our defense was great. We had a comfortable lead, but we should have scored eight or 10 more points.

Rex Ryan

We probably learned the ins and outs of (the 46 defense) in two days, but it took about 10 years to really put it into action,

We pride ourselves on our defense. We keep our hands up and keep getting in there.