Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Beilein

We're all trying to get as many wins as possible and they took a major step with the win tonight. I thought they played tremendous defense on us. We couldn't make shots the way we normally do.

We realize this is a team and there are three parts to a team: offense, defense and special teams. We're not pointing fingers at the offense or anything. We just realize we lost the game. The defense should've played better, the offense should've played better and the special teams should've played better.

Justin Miller

We realized that when he had pressure he got scared with the ball. He'd throw it real fast. The defense stepped it up a lot. That's why I have to really give congrats to the D line. They stepped it up a whole lot. We were able to get pressure on him and he started getting it off faster and started throwing interceptions.

We played much better defense in the second half.

We played mostly man-to-man defense and then switched to a 1-3-1 and were able to shut them down.

Avery Johnson

When he's on his game and he's playing tough, hard-nosed defense and getting rebounds, getting some assists, guarding one of the better perimeter players and scoring, I'm a much better coach.

Gary Payton

We've got to take it upon ourselves to play defense as individuals.

Bill Cowher

We've got to play our A game in all three phases - offense, defense and special teams - or we're not going to win this Super Bowl.

With Mathieu and Chris, I feel very good about our defense for this season. Mathieu had a great year for us in '03-04 and we tried to sign him last summer.

We talk about transition every day. We really want to push the ball. And our defense dictates that.

Anthony Brown

We talk about that a lot. We're going to have a lightning-quick point guard, and we all play defense, so we're going to be able to lock up on defense and score on offense.

We talk about our offense might slump a bit, but defense never slumps. You have to play defense all the time and we did a good job of that.

We talk about expecting to win and wanting to win, and right now these kids want to win. There was no panic tonight. Our kids played hard and executed late on defense and got some key rebounds.

We switched up our defense from a man-to-man to a drop defense, where several players would drop on one of their main players.

We told the girls all week if we could keep them between 45 and 55 points we would be in the game. They did even better than that. We prided ourselves on defense all year. That's a very talented team we held in check.

We tightened up our defense in the second half.

Henson did a great job in relief. That's something that wasn't there over the weekend and our defense played really well.

We are hitting a lot better. Defense and pitching were also very strong for us.

We did not hit as well as we did last week. Our defense did look good. We made plays when it really counted.

We did do better in the second half as we played a much better game. Our defense still has a lot to work on.

We did come back, but we dug ourselves too big a hole. We've been struggling on defense and tried something tonight. We have to adapt. Personally, I didn't get on the shooters when I needed to. I feel like I let my teammates down defensively.

Adam Kennedy

There is no doubt about it. It is a big situation, a big game, a fun game. It is fun to play defense like that and make big plays for your pitcher.

Ted Cruz

We need leaders who will stand unapologetically in defense of marriage.

Booker T. Washington

There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all.

Bono

Sadly, I do my homework. I've a soft spot for the boring minutiae. I read the Charter of the United Nations before meeting with Kofi Annan. I read the Meltzer report, and then I'll read C. Fred Bergsten's defense of institutions like the World Bank and the I.M.F. It's embarrassing to admit.

Blake Shelton

When things go wrong or dont turn out the way you pictured them in your head, you just have to go with the best intentions defense. I have a lot of good intentions.

Benjamin Franklin

Innocence is its own defense.

Ben Bernanke

To avoid large and unsustainable budget deficits, the nation will ultimately have to choose among higher taxes, modifications to entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare, less spending on everything else from education to defense, or some combination of the above.

We're playing great defense right now, no doubt about that. We're not just getting it done on the offensive end.

Josh Smith

We're playing defense tremendously well. Our zone has been a high as of late. We've been playing well as a team and we're having fun. I think that's why were getting better.

Avery Johnson

We really liked the way he played defense this summer and the way he was able to get us into some of our offense. I made a special trip to Utah (summer league) just to see him play.

We really haven't played a full 40 minutes of good defense all year but we did that tonight. And we had lots of steals and took them out of their offense.

We really got after it defensively, and I thought that was the key to the game. Our defense was really, really good. When you?re playing hard on defense, it leads to points.