Famous Quotes & Sayings

Reggie can score. He wants to score and likes scoring. It's his defense that he needs to work on.

Drew Bledsoe

Really what they played was a similar style of defense to what they played last year when they went on the run. They gave up some yards here and there, but they tightened up when we got into scoring territory.

Our outside game was really clicking, so they had to stretch the defense out and respect our 3-point shooting, and it opened it up in the middle for me.

Our quarterback will not play defense as long as I'm alive. ... Unless he's about 6-6 and 250. And our quarterback is not 6-6 and 250.

Paris was playing us a tough game. And we made two many unforced turnovers. We talked about halftime about playing good, sound defense and eliminating our mistakes on offense.

Our offense played a great game. But our defense really put on a show. The whole team played great defense tonight.

Our offense picked up our defense and pitching today.

Maurice Cheeks

Our offense is fine. Our defense is where's it's at. You have to put guys out there and show them how to play defense. We have to keep trying.

Our offense helped out our defense today. We need to play more consistently in the field.

Michael Warren

Our offense and defense was clicking. We felt good about that, but we knew the odds of that holding we would have to play good football,

Our offense and defense struggled. We have put ourselves in a hole by losing our first two district games.

Our man defense was what won this game. In the zone, we just got too lackadaisical.

Our low-post defense and defensive rebounding will be a big key.

Ron Zook

Our offensive line has got to improve. And defensively, there's no question we have to improve. There's no doubt in my mind we will be improved. We've got to play the type of defense you have to play in the Big Ten Conference.

Our offensive energy died, and it all starts on the defensive end. When our defense is there, we can be a good team. When it goes, we're not very good.

Our kids were talking about defense at halftime. They really wanted to step it up.

Our momentum slipped away when we had some defensive mistakes and gave them some easy goals early on. That's been our problem of late. We need to make them earn their goals. We couldn't slide on defense and that's how they scored.

We were definitely ready. (Friday) night we did not play our 'A' game by any means (in a 62-39 win over Denison). I thought our defense was superb.

Renee Taylor

We were hungry out there today. We played tough defense and it led to smooth transitions and quick scoring.

We'll be doing a lot of press-breaking work this week. We'll be scrimmaging ourselves and holding each other accountable, and we may work on some defense because those guys will be hard to guard man-to-man. We'll have pressure in our face for 32 minutes.

Boomer Esiason

With this defense and the way that this division is right now, why not?

We're still pitching well, playing good defense and getting timely hitting but we're leaving too many men on base.

We're still making adjustments in personnel to get to where we want to be. But we need to play better defense, no matter who we've got out there. Our interior defense needs to improve. Our help defense needs to get after it, if we're going to get back to where we were last year.

We're still learning and trying to get better. We played better defense and didn't give anything away.

We're starting to play playoff hockey. Early in the season we were winning games 7-4, and you're not going to go very far in the playoffs if you're all offense. You've got to be able to play defense as well.

We're searching for chemistry. Our defense needs to come together, and they know that. I think they're going to work on that all week this week.

We've got a really solid defense out there and I don't have any worries about my defense. They get dirty, they get after the ball. They usually make routine plays very easily.

We've waited a long time for this. This year, what they do as a team played right into our hands. We took the middle away and played great defense throughout.

We've tried to redesign the defense a little bit.

Troops are there to provide humanitarian support. There is no reason the Self Defense Forces should withdraw from Iraq. We will do our utmost for those people to be released unharmed.

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.