Famous Quotes & Sayings

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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.

There are just too many times when we have one or two guys who take time off on defense. You can't have that. You've got to have all five guys playing defense on every possession.

We always want to play great defense and we've looked pretty good so far.

We always talk about packing our defense and our rebounding when we go on road trips. That's what we have to do.

We always start in some sort of press. Tonight our defense was relentless.

We always say our defense gets our offense going.

Susan Rice

When you look at a secretary of defense who has been as forceful and effective as Donald Rumsfeld, for good or for ill, he's a tough customer,

Mike Shanahan

When you do that, it makes it hard for your defense to play four quarters at the level that we expect them to play. We did not do a very good job on offense. I can not put my thumb on it, because there was some great effort, guys played hard, but you have to have eleven guys out there playing together. One guy here (and) one guy there just doesn't get it done.

Michelle Gardner

When you don't score, it doesn't matter how many runs you give up. We played very solid defense. We made a few mistakes here and there, but really, for the most part, our defense did a great job. Our hitting is going to come around. I'm very pleased with the effort the kids gave. They played hard.

Tim Hatten

We've got to get better on offense. We're a little better on defense from last year. We've got to make up ground on offense. We've dropped some balls.

We've got to get better offensively. We're not giving our defense a chance.

We've got to focus on our defense and rebounding.

We've got to come hard. We had them by 20 the last time we played, we just let them come back. We have to play defense good the whole game. We can't go soft of them, regardless of how much time is left in the game.

We've got to be more patient on offense if we don't score on the fast break. We want to make them play defense for an extended period of time.

We've got to be able to play good defense to win. If it comes down to where a kid's going to play, he might have to see more time on the defensive side.

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.

Lawrence Frank

We only had three field goals, but more importantly, we gave up 27 points. We just had some defensive breakdowns. Sometimes we played good defense and they made shots. That's why we're tipping our hats to them.

Phil Jackson

We obviously need his defense at some level. It's good to have him back in the offense, but we weren't smooth with him in there offensively, though.

We pitched well in tight games. Pitching and defense were our strengths today.

We pitched well and played great defense, and then we did some good things on offense. It was just a great overall win for this team.