Famous Quotes & Sayings

I was pleased with the win, especially because we are playing a lot of girls and moving things around to take a look at the players in different spots. Several times they had players in scoring position, but our defense made the necessary plays.

I was pleased with the way we responded tonight. That's a real fine team. Our defense down the stretch was a significant factor in the game.

I was pleased with the way our kids kept playing defense. I'm proud of the way our kids played all four quarters.

I was pleased with the job we did in game two. I felt like we really found our rhythm, and the guys were playing well. It was defense transitioning into a really great offense.

I was pleased with the effort of our defense.

I was pleased with our situational hitting today. I told our players that we are good enough to take games over and take the pressure off of our pitchers and defense and we really took the game over offensively. I was pleased with the strides we made between the two games.

Ryan Hollins

If we had lost this game the way I shot free throws, I would never have forgiven myself. When it's all said and done, it doesn't matter how we won. We played great defense and we won, and that's how it's going down in the history books.

If we can make them play defense for 15-20 seconds every possession I think that will help. If a team that likes to run scores two or three quick baskets they get that extra spring in their step.

We took some risks on defense and that may have been why we rushed some things on offense. We got out of our offensive flow, but we won and that's what counts.

We took a lot of good shots in the first half, but they just weren't going in. We played better defense in the second half, which led to easy baskets for us.

We talked at halftime that if our defense could buckle down and keep them out of the end zone that we would win the game. That was the key.

We're one mission. The girls know we play with defense and all we want to do is get the pressure on and the up-tempo game going.

Gilbert Arenas

We're playing together. We're sharing the ball. We're trusting each other on defense and on offense.

We're playing the way we're supposed to play and aren't doing anything crazy. Our pitchers are throwing strikes, our defense has only one error in the last four games and we're hitting the baseball, and I knew we had the talent to do it.

Avery Johnson

When he's on his game and he's playing tough, hard-nosed defense and getting rebounds, getting some assists, guarding one of the better perimeter players and scoring, I'm a much better coach.

Gary Payton

We've got to take it upon ourselves to play defense as individuals.

Bill Cowher

We've got to play our A game in all three phases - offense, defense and special teams - or we're not going to win this Super Bowl.

With Mathieu and Chris, I feel very good about our defense for this season. Mathieu had a great year for us in '03-04 and we tried to sign him last summer.

We talk about transition every day. We really want to push the ball. And our defense dictates that.

Anthony Brown

We talk about that a lot. We're going to have a lightning-quick point guard, and we all play defense, so we're going to be able to lock up on defense and score on offense.

We talk about our offense might slump a bit, but defense never slumps. You have to play defense all the time and we did a good job of that.

We talk about expecting to win and wanting to win, and right now these kids want to win. There was no panic tonight. Our kids played hard and executed late on defense and got some key rebounds.

We switched up our defense from a man-to-man to a drop defense, where several players would drop on one of their main players.

We told the girls all week if we could keep them between 45 and 55 points we would be in the game. They did even better than that. We prided ourselves on defense all year. That's a very talented team we held in check.

We tightened up our defense in the second half.

Carl von Clausewitz

Blind aggressiveness would destroy the attack itself, not the defense.

Al Davis

They said you had to take what the defense gave you. No, we are going to take what we want.

Our help defense was late three times in a row and suddenly it's 13-12. I thought if we could've kept our first quarter lead the game would have been different.

John Calipari

Our half-court defense is still our staple. That's what we are. We want to make the game hard for the other team. It's hard to run plays when you can switch and do the things we do.

Our guys were aggressive. We play as we shoot. When we don't, our defense has to hold us in it.

Our intensity on defense was much, much better. I thought we responded well as a team after the loss. Plus, it's always nice to have Lee (Coleman) back in the lineup.

Our intensity level went down and that made our defense go down. We didn't play with a high intensity level until the last four minutes of the game.

Our inexperience in our defense in reading offenses hurt us. There were moments where their front line used their speed to their advantage.