Famous Quotes & Sayings

We've got several kids who can score in a number of different ways. Once the tournament begins, we've got to stay sharp mentally and come ready to play good defense and rebound every night. We've got seven seniors on this team and we want them to go out on a positive note.

Jack Johnson

We've got Savage and our receivers should be good. The offensive line will take a little time. I think our defense is pretty solid. Our secondary is good.

Steve Alford

We've got a lot of upperclassmen, and they understand the importance of that end. Tonight was as good we've helped all year, and that's what good team defense does.

We have been waiting all year long for that to happen. Our defense was our offense early in the game. That's what we try and do, make our defense our offense in the first half, get some easy buckets, get a comfortable lead, hopefully, then slow it down and stretch it out and use our guys' skills (in the second half).

We have to play better defense. They got a lot of easy buckets because we didn't get back on breaks. It will have to be better than it was then.

Jim Boeheim

We have to play better defense. Our field-goal percentage defense is the worst it's been since I've been here. We've got to play better the rest of the way. There's still a lot of time. A lot can happen.

Maurice Cheeks

We have too many breakdowns. I think that we have to go back to the one, two, three of defense rotations, and getting guys in different positions. The only way that you can win games if you are relying on your offense night in and night out, is you have to outscore teams. We're not going to outscore teams, so our defense has to go back to the fundamentals of teaching positions.

We have to keep fighting, trying to find ways to win the game. As a team we know we can win games if we shoot in the 30s -- if we play defense like we did in the second half.

We have to improve our pick-and-roll defense and stay up on their shooters. Then again, even when we did stay up on them, they hit tough shots.

We're not a young team anymore. Our defense has really matured. We're just all playing together. We're trying to get where want to go and we want play good every week.

Paul Wolfowitz

We're unified as an administration on this, ... We're unified within the Defense Department. We all understand the enormous value of expanding this coalition.

Using non-peaceful means to stop secession in defense of our sovereignty and territorial integrity would be our last resort when all our efforts for a peaceful reunification should prove futile.

Usually, our defense keys up our offense. It's not that our effort wasn't there on the defensive end. We just needed to go up to the next level.

We went two series of game situations and that was a pretty good test for our defense. We forced two turnovers and capitalized on both. It's good to come out on the end when you get into game situations.

Whichever defense gets more stops is probably going to win this game.

We rebounded well and we played good defense.

Yolanda is relentless in anything she does. We knew that she wasn't going to let us lose. We needed to go through her. Every time we were in a tight situation, she was always going to pull us out, whether it was defense or offense. She has been there, and she's done it.

Yolanda is relentless in anything she does, ... We knew that she wasn't going to let us lose. We needed to go through her. Every time we were in a tight situation, she was always going to pull us out, whether it was defense or offense. She has been there, and she's done it.

We don't talk about the struggles of the offense or the quarterback problems and all those things. What we talk about on defense is making sure that they don't score. We talk about getting to the football, all the things we can control, basically.

We executed well on offense, and our defense played fairly well. Our special teams were excellent.

We executed our game plan in the second half and stood our ground. Tesch played excellent defense which kept us in the game. All around it was a well-played game.

We dug ourselves a hole again, but started hitting some shots and playing defense and got ourselves within three points. Hope's just a very talented team.

We really wanted to focus on defense right out of the locker room and the girls stepped it up in the third. We stayed on pace and the free throws were big for us, too.

We really turned up the defense in the second quarter and got after them. That was the turning point.

We really stepped up our defense in the second half. We were able to get some transition baskets which triggered our scoring and we maintained our intensity on defense.

We really started to play in the second quarter. Our pressure defense really started to work.

We really played well, but I think we can play better. We shot well, hitting 58 percent of our shots, and our defense held them to 27 percent shooting.

We really played pretty good defense. They got hot their at the end. They hit some tough shots.

We really need to play defense and be disciplined and we aren't doing either of those things right now.

We got going in the second quarter with our defense, and they turned it over six times in the first three minutes.

We got complacent. We struggled playing defense. It's not something that they would normally do.

Tom Armstrong

We got back to some fundamentals. Defense was definitely emphasized in practice on Monday. We played a straight man and doubled the post when (Katie Bushman) got it.

We got back on defense and actually ran set plays correctly, ran our motion offense better and shot better.