Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Nash

We haven't really clicked. That's frustrating. But our defense has really picked up.

Steve Nash

We haven't played well offensively. We haven't really clicked, and that's frustrating, but at the same time our defense has really picked up, and given us an opportunity to win in all three of our losses.

We need the same old Cameo. Great intensity and jump-start us from the start. Rebounding all over the glass. And, defensively, I don't think people recognize what a great job she's doing playing three different positions. She really takes her defense to heart and is a big part of why we've been able to take teams out of their offense.

The pressure defense hurt us. We made too many turnovers. We had a good run at the end, but we ran out of gas. I give them a lot of credit.

We all played really good defense tonight. We're focusing on defense. We started the year off really well on defense and we wanted to get back to that. We're glad to be out of our slump.

No doubt offense sells the tickets, but defense wins the championships.

Right now I'm really focusing on defense to get better at, and I've noticed that I've been getting a lot of steals.

Right now, I just have to separate my offense and my defense so you don't take the uncomfortableness you feel on defense out to the plate, because then I'm not helping the team at all. It's like two separate games. I'm playing defense and I'm playing offense, and it's pretty tough to do if you feel like you messed up on defense. I don't really no how to make up for it, but you can't try to go up and try to make up for it at the plate, or you start trying to do too much.

Rich is a guy that I wanted on my staff when I went to Martin. We're going to use the same defense we ran at Martin, and he is very knowledgeable of that defense.

Rice has as good an offensive player as their is in the league. They start with him and that's important. Transition defense will be very important. They are a very good transition team. And defensively, they are doing a lot of different things.

(Petersen) is definitely our No. 1 defender. He's the only senior we have on defense, so he keeps the defense in check.

Perry has been good to us, but East Canton will be as tough if not the toughest team we've played this year. We're going to have to play good defense and go to our strengths.

Plus, ... her defense has improved. She's never been one of my quickest players, but she plays with so much heart that it gives her that extra quickness.

Ron Clarke

Poor effort. Our second-half defense wasn't perfect, but boy, they showed a lot of effort. We found our fighters (in the second half), those who will fight for us on the field.

Only letting in one in a whole, full game, that's an accomplishment especially when you are playing a good team like Putnam Valley. We stuck together on defense and we managed to pull out a pretty good win.

Sigi Schmid

One thing that Eddie gives us is a guy who can try to drop off the front line and come at the defense a little bit.

Richard Armitage

On the question of whether we will have missile talks about missile defense with North Korea -- right now, we are not talking with them about anything, but I suspect in the near future we will,

On offense, we just found the open holes. And we had the rebounding on defense. We kept them off the boards.

We have an excellent defense. All of the goals that have been scored on us have been on free kicks and penalty kicks so nothing from the run of play. Defense is definitely what we pride ourselves on.

Chris Kirkpatrick

We have a mix of new and veteran kids on our defensive unit, and they held them to one score and 198 total yards, including only 68 passing. That was most satisfying. It's much easier to win games with defense than by trying to outscore somebody.

We have a lot of young players, and they had some first-time jitters in CIF. I told them to start stepping up their defense in the second quarter, and they did. They need to remember that defense wins games.

We need to keep playing as a team, and keep working on our defense and not make stupid fouls.

We couldn't come up with the key hits. And we weren't mentally prepared on defense. To win, you have to play every play, and we didn't do that today.

Matt Hasselbeck

We could have lost this game. They've got some great leadership on this team. To come in here like that and play like this, the defense was just awesome.

We could have held them a little tighter, which is what we've done in the past. We've got to score eight or nine, and our defense has got to do the job of holding them to seven or eight.

We just didn't take enough shots tonight. They played a good defense and shot very well.

We just didn't string anything together. I was very pleased with our defense and our execution, we just couldn't get hits when we needed them.

We just didn't play well at all offensively tonight. Our defense played well enough to win, but our offense just didn't execute.

Stephen Jackson

We just didn't play the proper defense on him. I wish I was guarding him. I probably would have made it a little tougher.

We just didn't play defense consistently. We started shooting well when we got some stops. They were making their shots, and we weren't stopping them. We had some problems getting back on defense.

Jason Terry

We just didn't knock down our shots tonight. I don't know if it was their defense or our lack of offense, but we had a lot of good looks.

We played pretty good defense in the first half. We were the aggressors in the first half.

James Bailey

We played pretty good defense in the first half, then in the second half, we got out of our game plan.