Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sylvester Croom

We were sloppy today. We got another great effort out of our defense. They're making plays and getting turnovers. Loose balls, tipped balls, they're making plays.

We were short on defense tonight. It would have definitely helped us if (Pelletier) was in the game.

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Trinity pressured us with man-to-man defense the entire game. And then two of our players fouled out.

Trey's the general in there; he makes all the calls. The defense is kind of complicated. They use a 3-4 and a 4-3, an over and an under. They put five down linemen in the game. Trey worked very hard all week on the calls.

Olympia Snowe

travesty and a strategic blunder of epic proportions on the part of the Defense Department.

You know what's getting me to play better? Not thinking at all. I think right now I'm in a good place where it's like 'just play. Don't worry about what's going to happen, what might happen. Do what you're good at and everything else will fall into place.' I can play defense and I can rebound. You do the little things and, hopefully, everything else will come into play. Whether it's getting on the boards, diving on the floor ... whatever I can do.

We needed that run. We were struggling. I'm not sure if it was jitters or what but it took us a little while to get going. We also played great defense and we didn't let them get into their half-court offense.

We needed more people to step up and score. I was displeased with the defense down the stretch, but we know we're going to have to turn things around to make a run at state.

We need to work on everything. We didn't expect to be in midseason form (Sunday). The offense had a lot of turnovers. I think the defense started out pretty good. We need to maintain our focus and discipline.

We need to thin out the penalties, but the offense and defense played well tonight.

We need to step up our defense as a team. Our defense has been slacking. We've been too focused on our offense. We need to get back to setting the tone defensively, and it starts with me.

We need to stay organized in our defense and score on the opportunities we get.

We need him to score for us, but we also look for him to play good defense in the post. He's experienced, and he's got those long arms, so he does a pretty good job in there.

We needed to pick up our defense. (Forward) Steve Snider and I have been saying this whole trip that defense is going to win this for us.

We needed to get angry. We weren't playing well the last two games, and at times we were lacking enthusiasm. But we knew the truth about us and that we would could come out and play good defense and win.

You know it's hard to run it into the end zone when you're down from the 6 to about the 2. It's nice to run it in from 10 to 15 because the defense is looser.

You know in the tournament that a lot of offenses come out a little tight. We're a fourth seed, so there isn't a lot expected of us. We played great defense today.

We've been having some problems with our hitting, but we're working on that. Again, our pitching and defense have pulled us through. Jessica always pitches well for us.

We've been getting good defense from the rest of them, but last night we got the 9s, 7s and 5s in the scorebook that really help us offensively.

We've been down that much in the past, but not this year. But I told the guys, it's a full game and you have to keep playing defense and stay true to it and the shots will fall.

I wasn't too happy with our defense in the first quarter. The second quarter we played better defense and that helped offensively.

I was never really worried about the slow start like that because I knew our defense was good enough to wear them down. Sammy is one of our sophomore leaders and really gave us that spark at the right time.

I would imagine the government lawyers are as equally worried about his testimony as the defense lawyers.

Most of the jurors were only looking at the evidence that the prosecution gave. But I went over to look at the evidence that the defense presented. I was told don't do that. Just look at the evidence over here.

Most of our games are won on defense and rebounding. We had much better energy, much more effort (in the second half).

Mark Patterson

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Mercer's defense had something to do with that. We had been shooting well. They forced us to a perimeter game and clogged up the lane.

Pete Carroll

will be so explosive that the defense will have to spend a lot of time on the field.

We need to play the same defense and get in people's faces.

We haven't shot well all year long. We put a game together where our offense and our defense were pretty stout.

We just can't quit playing defense thinking we'll get it next time. There may not be a next time.

We jumped out early in the first quarter and led 14-3. We played pretty good defense early, but then it was pretty even until the fourth when we out scored them 23-16. The second and third quarters were evenly matched.