Famous Quotes & Sayings

NATO has been probably the most effective defense organization in world history, but no institution has the divine right to exist.

John Taylor

National defense is the usual pretext for the policy of fleecing the people.

Longmire earned his points. Luther Suggs played good defense on him. It was fun watching Longmire play. He was very unselfish. Pascagoula has a good team. I was impressed with their athleticism. Keith has done an outstanding job.

Mary Pat pitched one heck of a game. She was out there humming the ball, hitting her spots and hitting the corners. Our defense just had a little mental lapse there in the second inning. We're going to get better at it. It's still early in the season and we're not quite where we want to be yet. But, we're going to get there.

John Beilein

(Marshall) played a great game and they're getting better every day. I thought they just played excellent defense on us. We did all of the things we wanted to do to get open shots and they just didn't go in.

Takeo Spikes

Like I told, J.P., the ingredients are all here, ... The defense is ready to roll. The rest of the team is welcome to hop aboard and enjoy the ride.

I won't say that I got lucky, but I didn't expect to do as good as I did. My defense really picked me up, and they deserve a lot of credit.

I won't say that I don't worry about it, but our defense is usually going to play. Thank goodness, because when you don't hit, you have to pitch and play defense, and I've been saying it for years.

Steve Phillips

I was very proud of our defense in the second half. We had some people step up to the plate and get it done when they really had to tonight.

I was very pleased with what I saw today. We had some timely hitting and played good defense, and I think the kids are starting to gel as a group.

Mike Campbell

I was very pleased with the way the defense pursued to the football.

I was very pleased with our defensive performance in the second half. I realize they were conservative, but I was really pleased with our run defense the entire game, especially with us being outsized.

I was very pleased with our defense in the second half. They like to penetrate and we stopped them.

I was getting really nervous on defense because they were hitting shots. But, I knew we'd find a way. Jeremy hit that big shot before me. Then I stepped up.

Jerome Bettis

I was frustrated. That shouldn't happen. It should never have happened. My defense bailed me out. I can leave here with my head up high.

Jim Hamilton

I was extremely proud of the way we were able to hold MTCS at the end. We had those first game jitters, but our defense stepped up when we needed a big play.

I was excited about the way we pitched. Obviously, our defense was poor and our offense wasn't there and that was the difference.

Lloyd Carr

I think if you take one play out of the football game, our defense did a very good job,

Mike Woods

It gave me a headache halfway through, but I got through it. The defense was definitely in the right place at the right time.

It feels great. I'm very happy we were able to go out and get another chance. We really wanted to work on our defense and get back to playing the way we know we can.

Dennis Johnson

It feels good to get another win at home. The guys worked really hard on defense and made the extra pass on offense tonight.

I think our offense is getting better every week, ... If we get the offense going, that should make our defense even better.

I think our man defense kind of kept us in the game, and when we executed our offense, we did fine.

Lovie Smith

I think six games into our season you see the type of defense we are, ... This is the position we want to be in, going up to Detroit in first place.

I think Seton stepped up their defense and got in our faces. We got rattled, but not too bad. The third quarter was when they did their real damage, but what a great season for us. We won our division and the kids played with heart.

I think right now it's exciting because we didn't have a good year last year. I want to make sure this Oregon State defense is back. Last year we didn't show that as well as we should have.

Buddy Bell

I think everybody is talking about our infield (defense) being better, which it is. But our outfield defense is going to be better, too.

I think defensively we will be pretty strong. We banked a lot on our defense last year. This year we hope to get over the hump with some hitting.

I think defense is the easiest thing to do to get yourself going. If you get a steal or a rebound, it motivates you to keep doing it. If I can get some steals and help the team score, it helps me to get going.

I think once the kids started playing games, they got excited and really started to execute well. We work to get one run each inning and we're executing defensively. Our pitchers have been throwing strikes and letting the defense do the work for them.

I think he gets better every day, he really does. He gets more comfortable. He's a special guy. We're going to see how he plays after a week's worth of preparation and somebody getting ready for him. The Redskins' defense has had a whole week to get ready for him now, what he can do, what he can't do. So, we'll see.

I think he'd also be the first one to say we played really solid team defense for 120 minutes this weekend.

I think honestly our defense is better at this point than last year. Why? Because of No. 97.