Famous Quotes & Sayings

Flip Saunders

We know when to lock down. Our defense hasn't slipped at all.

Tayshaun Prince

We know what our capabilities are: to have our defense get some stops and try to get started on our offensive game, which wasn't happening for us.

We know we've got to use the run to set up the pass. If we can do that, we can keep the score down and we can help the defense stay off the field.

We know we're good. But now we want to be great. And playing tough defense is one way to get there.

We know we have to come out strong this way every time we play this team. The guys have just been playing great defense in front of me. I didn't see much tonight, especially in the second period.

Bertolt Brecht

Right is its own defense.

We have to focus on playing solid defense to minimize scoring opportunities for our opponents because we probably aren't going to put up the numbers we put up last year. But winning by one or two is the same result as winning by four or five.

Junior Seau

Whenever the defense needed to get off the field, we didn't execute. We recognize that, and hopefully it won't happen again.

When you score that little in a fourth quarter, it's usually part defense and part just missing some shots.

Bill Snyder

The positive side is that we put together about 12 minutes of play where our offense, defense and kicking game played probably as well as we could play at this particular point of the season. That was only 12 or so minutes, though.

We are pretty strong at defense and midfielder.

We've always been known for our defense. We have so many seniors and they've worked so hard. Defense is just what we try to do.

We've all had a month to prepare for this game, so they've all been studying us in and out. Everyone hyped this up to be an offensive game, and definitely the defense stepped up better than the offense did.

We usually play better defense than that. That's usually the thing that keeps us in games.

Jack Smith

We started playing better on defense and I think Eagle Valley got a little worn down. In the third and fourth quarters, they (Rifle) kept the intensity up, which I appreciate.

We started playing better defense and took charge. We did some good things offensively and played much better defense in the second half.

We struggle sometimes on offense, but we play hard on defense every second we're out there.

We struggled for everything on offense all night. Give Dickinson State's defense credit, they worked hard.

We struggled as a team. They played their game and I feel like we could have been more mentally focused tonight. I know it starts with me -- point guard, leadership. I wouldn't take anything away from the defense (Delaware State) played, but I think more than anything we could have come out and been more mentally strong.

We struggled, and I thought Kentucky's tenacity on defense had a lot to do with it. They were swarming and really played physical. I thought their defense impacted us in a big way.

We still pushed the tempo when we had the opportunities to. They slowed it down but our half-court defense was pretty sound.

We still played good defense in the first half, but our shots just weren't falling, ... Our defense was clicking. In the second half, we just started knocking them down. We were attacking, and our energy was up.

Tom Izzo

We still played good defense and pretty good offense. We shot 50%, 40-something from three.

We started out slow on offense, but I thought our defense held us in. It could have been a 20-point quarter, but we held them to 8. We played a lot better in the second quarter. We loosened up and got it down to a manageable deficit. It was only four a halftime.

We started out slow, but we just tightened up our defense on the basketball.

We started out slow again. Our last three games we've scored four, four and eight points in the first quarter. I don't know why we're starting out so flat. We have to come out stronger. We played great defense though and you can't say enough about that.

We started out really sluggish. We were not up on defense or at the plate in the beginning. Everyone contributed to this win.

We started out OK. (Mandan's) pressure defense is tough. We are looking for a person to take a leadership role. We need that to happen if we are going to make it to the next level.

We started out in a man-to-man and they were putting it to us. I thought we'd go to zone and see if we could maybe take them out of their perimeter game. I'm not sure if we accomplished that but our defense won it for us. We knew we had to get out on their three-point shooters and we did a good job with that.

Jay Brown

We started hitting on all cylinders. Our defense was the catalyst. It's easier to make shots when you are playing well on defense.

We stacked the middle on defense after the third quarter when we noticed that they were running inside the tackles.

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.