Famous Quotes & Sayings

We've just got to keep practicing hard before the game. Prepare well and just play good defense and rebound, and we'll win another championship.

We have momentum going. We hope to keep riding the wave as long as it can take us. We feel pretty good. The spirit and morale are pretty high right now. We're playing defense and the offense looks good.

Jim Calhoun

We have Marcus Williams who made big plays down the stretch. We turned up the defense the last four or five minutes.

We will need pitching, great defense and pressure on offense to be successful.

When the doldrums went away, I think we got a sense of urgency and started executing. When we execute and our defense stops them like we were stopping them, then we're going to become a good football team.

When the defense has to worry about what you're going to do it's so much easier.

When we played them at Rhode Island, they were faster than us. They were more physical than us. They played better defense than us. They had better special teams than us. But we've gotten a lot better in all those areas.

When we play defense with that kind of energy, we're as good a team as I've ever seen.

When we watched the film, about half the time Carolina's defense wasn't even fully set when we're snapping the ball. Whether that's how they wanted it or how they were playing it, I don't know.

When we've lost games it's been because of our transition defense and we've been selfish. I think we're over that.

We've overcome some injuries and we're starting to pick it up. Our defense wasn't as good tonight as the first time we played them so we have play better there, but it's good to be one win from states.

Aaron Gray

We watched a lot of film on him. He's a big key to their offense. When you're guarding him you can't leave him or he'll get an open shot. I also got great help defense from my teammates, and he missed some shots too. The combination is why he went scoreless.

We wasn't getting back in transition the first half. We kept putting them on the foul line. We stepped up our defense in the second half.

We wanted to establish ourselves early physically, and I thought we did that. Our defense kept 'em pinned up, so we had great field position all night.

We had some solid defense in the back. Our defense is learning to play as a group.

We'd been hearing that our team had the worst defense of the 12 teams that made the playoffs. They proved people wrong today. Can you play any better than that?

We knew we needed to come out and play harder defense than we did in the first half. They were hitting their shots in the first half.

We knew we had to score first, and the defense would hold us. Once you score, you just want more.

We knew we had to press up and play good defense. Good defense turns into good offense. We take pride in playing good defense.

Kristi Toliver

We knew we had to play better defense because most of our shots weren't falling. It was a different kind of game for us, but I think we showed why we deserve to win it all.

Brian White

We're trying to stretch the defense and get them to run (laterally),

Derek Jeter

I wish I trusted people more. But when I meet someone, the first thing is, 'What does this person want?' And I put up a defense mechanism. But I've always been that way.

Ben Quayle

I think we should be looking at the defense and seeing where we can actually be more efficient because I think that, you know, sometimes during the contracting process, we lose some efficiencies in that regard.

We have to be ready on defense again. They like to run in transition, and they'll play with a lot more energy at home.

We have seen her a few times before, so we had an idea how good she was. We played our regular defense and rotated people to guard her, but that didn't work.

This was a much needed win. Our defense played a good game, we had a lot of scoring opportunity in the game, some that should have been called goals, but we will take this win.

This was a great way for us to start our division. We just have to maintain our good defense.

The play is designed to get all the way outside on the defense and outrun everybody.

The players never like hearing it, but I told them before the game and at the half, the reason we're where we are is because we have played defense and done an incredible job on the boards. I told them at the half that I didn't understand why we don't have 10 to 12 charges. They were going to the goal out of control, ducking their heads. And I said 'somebody step up,' and they did.

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Aaron Williams

When you play three games back-to-back, you lose some energy. When that happens, we just have to pick our D up. Defense is a real big key on our team. It's defense that puts points on the board.

When you play five or six sophomores offensively, they just have to grow up. That's the only way they can do it without making mistakes. Thankfully our defense played well enough tonight that we could come out on top.

Bill Belichick

There are 11 people out there playing defense. What makes a difference is how those 11 people play. That's what defense is about. It's about team defense. You are always trying to isolate it into one player, one situation or one thing, and it just doesn't work that way.