Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Jake Plummer

We got the running game going and our defense dominated them on the other side of the ball...We just kept working hard. We played some tough defense.

We gave up some easy baskets early. We didn't want that to happen again, so we made some adjustments in the second quarter and were able to use our defense to get ourselves some easy baskets.

We gave up a lot in the first half. Our defense settled in during the second half, and we really held our own.

We can be great. We just have to keep playing defense like we do and working hard.

Barbara Lee

We are not the CIA, we are not the FBI, we are not the White House, we are not the Defense Department. We are the United States Congress; we have our role. And we can't give up that role during a national-security crisis.

We had to pick it up and try to help out our defense. They've been playing well all year. We had to go out there and work harder.

We had to make adjustments on offense and defense at halftime. Those kids from Johnson are good. They can flat shoot the lights out. We had to go to a kind of half-man, half-zone 'D' to try and stop them.

We had to make adjustments at halftime. Our defense in the second half was the big difference.

We got off to a really slow start offensively. But I thought our defense made up for that and played really well and didn't give them any easy shots.

Roy H. Williams

We fought together as a team. We pulled out a win. It was tough. It's a team sport. When your offense needs help, your defense has to have their back. And we did that today.

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.