Famous Quotes & Sayings

We pride ourselves on our defense; that comes first. We knew they were a young team and have had problems with turnovers. We wanted to force them into making some decisions.

We pride ourselves in defense and like they say, defense wins championships.

We pressed hard on defense and worked on stealing balls,

We did what we had to do. We got off to a good start in league; we played good defense and got all our relievers some work.

We did very well in the second quarter, and that has been a microcosm of our season. We play a good quarter and then not be so effective in another quarter. But our defense played pretty well throughout.

Bobby Johnson

We had a play ready. Our defense was tired and had played a lot of plays.

When we're playing well, we're usually on the run. If we can rebound and play solid defense, things are going well. Our defense leads to offense.

When we're knocking them down, it gets frustrating for the defense. When we're not knocking them down, it kind of takes the wind out of us, and it lets the defense rest when all you take is outside shots.

When half your team is freshmen and your wrestling a Division 1 schedule you're going to be in trouble. Imagine if half the offense and defense in football were freshman, there'd be real trouble there and we're in that same situation.

We're not going to concede that we won't be good on defense. We won't have great depth in the beginning. But we've got a good defense that will be ready to play in the fall.

We had some good hitting out there. Our defense is going to be much improved.

Tom Holden was outstanding in goal. I thought the whole defense played extremely well.

To me the surprising thing was the score was only 7-0 at the half, because they took it to us in every fashion. I give our defense a lot of credit. We're a young team. We only have three starters back. So, I knew we would learn a lot about our guys in this game. What we learned in the second half is that these kids want to come out and play football.

We are looking at all our alternatives right now. We have always been very vigorous in our defense of our patent portfolio.

Chad Greenway

We're a team that needs to improve. That's what we know we are. We're a team that isn't satisfied with where we're at. We're a team that makes too many mistakes on defense and we need to shore that up.

We're comfortable playing everyone we've got on the bench. One of our keys all year is getting contributions on offense and defense from a lot of different players.

Tom Daschle

wanted to veto the defense bill, go ahead.

We played well out there, but then their defense got rolling on us.

We played well on defense and we got strong pitching. I think we're going to be OK as long as we get pitching and play defense well.

We played well on defense and all three pitchers were solid.

Grover Norquist

The job of the government isn't to go around and try and make people sacrifice, it's to try and make people free. The reason why we have a national defense is to protect our freedoms.

Barry Goldwater

I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

We had our chances. We're not getting the key hits. Overall, for four games, our defense was pretty steady. We just have to keep reminding ourselves that we are real young and are going to take our lumps. Hopefully next year we can win these (close) games.

David Hawkins

We had our chances, especially in the second inning, but we couldn't get a hit when we needed it. Every game has been that way so far. The middle of the order is really struggling. Once they get going we're going to win some games because we're playing better defense than we did last year and we've gotten good pitching overall.

Jim Haslett

We had opportunities and we didn't make them. The defense played well enough to win all day except at the end.

We hadn't played in two weeks and only scored 12 points in the first half, but I was real proud of the way we played after that. They started out on fire. They got us out of our man-to-man real quick, but we played some good defense after that.

We had not practiced well until this week and that has me more optimistic. The kids understand the offense and defense and our long-term goals. They realize it is more of a journey than a short trip. We may get beat, but we can still move forward from there. If we win we have a better shot at the conference, but either way we can move on.

Darnell Dockett

We have the tools to be the No.1-ranked defense in the league.

We have the opportunity to be an outstanding defense because we're going to be challenged.

We were hard at work on the defense of her case.

Luol Deng

We were struggling in the first quarter then our defense picked it up. In the second quarter we started running and getting baskets in transition.

We were sort of inept (in the second half) and their defense had something to do with it. That was the game.

We were soft on defense to start the game. The last 10 minutes of the game, we really started to get after it.