Famous Quotes & Sayings

Norv Turner

Kerry gets excited for every game, and I'm sure he'll be a little more here. But you know, he's played enough and he knows you've got to go play. And you've got to play within what we're doing and what the defense is giving us opportunities to do.

Jermaine Dye

Kenny Williams showed me on paper what the makeup of this team would be like. I always know that from being around this game, pitching and defense wins,

(Kenny) played fantastic. He hit some tough shots, but he played well on defense too.

Harold Wilson

Kids have a mindset - and a lot of people have a mindset - that you have to have a starting five, and they're supposed to play as much as they can. What we had to understand was if we wanted the starters to finish strong, we had to have that other group play. We had to keep up the pace and tempo to keep the defense continually strong. We had to wear down our opponents.

I wouldn't be surprised if they shot 60 percent. I told the guys at halftime that if we played good defense and they were still hitting, I would be the first to go and shake their hands.

Kadoka is very good on defense and switches it up quite a bit.

Jones put such a good defense with that 3-2 zone and our guards just weren't patient.

Richard Jefferson

J-Kidd, it was just unbelievable what he did. He's been all-league defense I don't know how many years.

Tiki Barber

I think it'll tell a lot about our team and our offense in particular and how good we really are. They've been playing great defense and it's a monumental test for us to go on the road and do what we've done at home.

Henson did a great job in relief. That's something that wasn't there over the weekend and our defense played really well.

Hathaway, Schrader and Nelson took it to the basket. They also played good defense and really hustled.

Having Tyler starting in the field really gave us momentum early on. Isaac Coates did a nice job in goal all game. Our defense was strong enough to handle Bridgeport's offense.

Guys are accountable. They know what our identity is; they're hard-working and defense-minded. We want to be hard to play against.

Hard to win on the road when it's 33-to-9 at the line. Hard to win when you think you do a good job on defense and they end up with three free throws.

Her (Schmidt's) offense has never been enough to win games, but her defense has set the tone for what we needed to do at Southeast. It was man-to-man, pressure defense and the kids never tired.

Bobby Cox

He's a great outfielder. His defense is incredibly great.

Her name of the game is speed. Mary puts a lot of pressure on the defense because of her speed and we will score runs when she is on the bases.

Her hitting was her nemesis last year, but she still got to play good defense for us. She's gotten stronger, though, and she's been hitting in the No. 3 spot during the scrimmages. I'm hoping that she'll be a surprise with her bat.

Golden West has a good program and when you are playing good teams you have to play good defense and you need timely hitting. This was a good game for us to play, we'll learn from it.

For me, personally, it was fairly easy. My defense had the game of their lives.

Matt Williams

He's a really, really good hitter to all fields. Physically, he hits fastballs really, really well. He's an extremely hard worker. He's always working on his swing, and he's always working on his fielding abilities trying to make himself better. He works really hard just in everything he does, like with his rehab and everything -- with that he's already back and throwing the ball. Pretty soon he'll be able to play defense in a game, not just hit.

He seems to be a pretty good athlete. He's been playing on our scout team defense and is doing a good job. He sort of worked his way onto special teams.

John Beilein

His skill level, and my love for having big guys who can shoot, made the marriage work. He plays and shoots and passes the way I like our big guys to do it to make our offense and defense work.

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.