Famous Quotes & Sayings

We started out OK. (Mandan's) pressure defense is tough. We are looking for a person to take a leadership role. We need that to happen if we are going to make it to the next level.

We started out in a man-to-man and they were putting it to us. I thought we'd go to zone and see if we could maybe take them out of their perimeter game. I'm not sure if we accomplished that but our defense won it for us. We knew we had to get out on their three-point shooters and we did a good job with that.

Jay Brown

We started hitting on all cylinders. Our defense was the catalyst. It's easier to make shots when you are playing well on defense.

We stacked the middle on defense after the third quarter when we noticed that they were running inside the tackles.

Mark Brunell

When you've got a great defense like we do, you don't have to be flashy, you don't always have to score touchdowns in the red zone, ... You'd like to, but you just have to play smart with the football and don't turn it over. And if you do that, you've got a great advantage.

When you travel for four hours, you're happy to get a win. I was disappointed in our half-court defense and transition defense but I thought our offense was good.

Flip Saunders

When you take a team like Milwaukee that can really score and you hold them to 74 points your team defense is doing something. That's the staple of our team.

When you start penetrating and they get up on the second level of the defense, the holes just open like sieves and your defense can be in trouble,

We have had to work on our defense so much this season, because we are such an offense-minded team. As the season went on, we realized that that work on our defense was really going to help us. It did tonight.

We're hanging our hat on our defense right now. We got a little worn down, but we played well. I was proud of the defense.

We're good at home, and our defense always makes things a lot easier for us on offense.

This win gives us a lot of momentum after a rough stretch of losses during the middle of the season. We've done a great job since we went to a new defense during the second half of the season.

Camille Paglia

Society is an artificial construction, a defense against nature's power.

Boomer Esiason

With this defense and the way that this division is right now, why not?

We're still pitching well, playing good defense and getting timely hitting but we're leaving too many men on base.

We're still making adjustments in personnel to get to where we want to be. But we need to play better defense, no matter who we've got out there. Our interior defense needs to improve. Our help defense needs to get after it, if we're going to get back to where we were last year.

We're still learning and trying to get better. We played better defense and didn't give anything away.

We're starting to play playoff hockey. Early in the season we were winning games 7-4, and you're not going to go very far in the playoffs if you're all offense. You've got to be able to play defense as well.

We're searching for chemistry. Our defense needs to come together, and they know that. I think they're going to work on that all week this week.

We've got a really solid defense out there and I don't have any worries about my defense. They get dirty, they get after the ball. They usually make routine plays very easily.

We've waited a long time for this. This year, what they do as a team played right into our hands. We took the middle away and played great defense throughout.

We've tried to redesign the defense a little bit.

Bertolt Brecht

Right is its own defense.

Benjamin Netanyahu

We are using missile defense to protect our civilians, and they're using their civilians to protect their missiles.

Bob Barr

Firearms manufacturers usually find themselves playing defense.

Bill Walton

When you intercept the ball with your stomach, that is great defense

Charles Bass

The Intelligence Committee will also examine present counterintelligence programs for the Department of Energy, the National Laboratories, and the Department of Defense.

Whenever you play good defense and get good pitching, you don't need to score a lot. If we keep playing like this, we're going to be tough to beat.

Richard Jefferson

When your defense falls, sometimes your offense can be part of the problem. We were taking some questionable shots that were leading to easy transition baskets on their end.

Matt Diaz

When I let it go I had a good feeling. Seven total hits. Defense is going to win that game.

When I come in I want to spark it up. Get some steals and get the tempo up. We were scoring easy baskets when we got our defense going.

Mark Turgeon

We won the Evansville game differently than we won the Missouri State game, for example. Whether it's rebounding or free throw shooting or defense or offensive execution, it's been something different each game for us.

There is no problem with the relationship between Mr. Nichols and his defense team.