Famous Quotes & Sayings

Our help defense was late three times in a row and suddenly it's 13-12. I thought if we could've kept our first quarter lead the game would have been different.

John Calipari

Our half-court defense is still our staple. That's what we are. We want to make the game hard for the other team. It's hard to run plays when you can switch and do the things we do.

Our guys were aggressive. We play as we shoot. When we don't, our defense has to hold us in it.

Our intensity on defense was much, much better. I thought we responded well as a team after the loss. Plus, it's always nice to have Lee (Coleman) back in the lineup.

Our intensity level went down and that made our defense go down. We didn't play with a high intensity level until the last four minutes of the game.

Our inexperience in our defense in reading offenses hurt us. There were moments where their front line used their speed to their advantage.

That big run put us where we needed to be. We played good defense and the press really got to Mountainburg early and it got us some easy shots. That's the way we like to play.

That does surprise me. We lost a lot of players and were we expecting to be ranked lower than last year. I've been really surprised, especially in our defense because that's where we lost a lot of people.

Thank God. But that's our problem. Most of the kids on defense are also our offensive players. We'd like to eliminate that if possible as much as we can.

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.

Brad Stuart

We'll take goals from whoever we can get them from and if it happens to be the defense then that's a good thing for us.

What it comes down to is what it has been all year - defense. We miss 20 or 21 in a row, and our defense saves us.

What it comes down to is what it has been all year - defense, ... We miss 20 or 21 in a row, and our defense saves us.

What it comes down to is what it has been all year -- defense, ... We miss 20 or 21 in a row, and our defense saves us.

Chuck Norris

The best defense is not to offend.

Anthony Horowitz

When are you at your most defenseless?

We couldn't get in a flow of things offensively. Their defense was just a little too much for us, a little too physical. We had to fight for every point we could get.

We couldn't get a stop. We could never get that lead. Our defense let us down and we just couldn't get over the hump.

Paul Hewitt

We couldn't get anything to fall. Their defense was a good part of the reason we didn't make any shots, but we had some roll off.

Brent Johnson

We were very good last year, but we went out and got what was on our wish list. The maturity level on our defense is huge.

Drew Brees

We were tying to go down and get points and pad that lead, but they did a good job getting back into the game. But our defense did a heck of a job holding them.

Chris Chelios

We were more patient on defense tonight. We have a new system, and (Wednesday) night, we were still standing around, thinking about what to do. Tonight we had it down.

We were looking for our defense to spark our offense, we shut a good team down tonight.

Dave Cook

We can score from the inside, the outside, in transition or in the half court. Then we can play some lock-down defense too. I am just really proud right now.

We can play as well as any of the teams in the league, we just have to play good defense and minimize mistakes.

We can play any style. But we've been in enough physical games like this now and we know how to handle it. We have some tough kids. Our man-to-man defense can be stifling and it's nice that I do not have to put in some funky defenses just to stop people.

We dropped some games earlier in the season where if our defense had been better, we would have had a better chance.

Arron Afflalo

We'd probably lose. That's what is keeping us on top. Our defense leads to easy buckets on offense.

We do work very hard on defense and knew we had to make some adjustments to play this team differently than we did the first time. We gave them too much of an inside presence over at our place.

We couldn't find the rhythm on offense because of our defense. We usually get it going with our defense. If we play defense like this, we can't do it.