Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

We have some momentum and are right where we want to be. We have been playing better defense and rebounding better which is important because we play in one of the toughest conferences.

I tell the team we have to pack our defense and rebounding for road trips. Those are things you have to do well to win away from home.

La'Roi Glover

I think I can play any defense. Whether at a nose guard, or a three-technique. I played some defensive end in the 3-4. I played some defensive end in the 4-3. I think a player has more value when he can do more things.

I think in all honesty, defense is going to win this game. It's not going to be offense.

I think he gets better every day, he really does. He gets more comfortable. He's a special guy. We're going to see how he plays after a week's worth of preparation and somebody getting ready for him. The Redskins' defense has had a whole week to get ready for him now, what he can do, what he can't do. So, we'll see.

I think he'd also be the first one to say we played really solid team defense for 120 minutes this weekend.

I think honestly our defense is better at this point than last year. Why? Because of No. 97.

Will Smith

I think his head wasn't in the game the first half. I think they underestimated our speed on defense, but they made some good adjustments in the second half.

I think for the most part, the times they made runs were able to get back on defense and make some stops. But we didn't make as many stops in a row as we wanted to and needed to.

It definitely was not a 16-point game. We held them 20 under what they usually score, and we didn't even play good defense in the second half.

It definitely started with the defense. We started out tough on defense and the offense played off of that. We didn't rush our shots and we took the shots that we wanted.

That was a tremendous stop. When we play defense, we can be pretty good and we did an outstanding job in the last 30 seconds. There are going to be some nights when it's going to come own to that one shot, and that's why we play defense and take pride in it.

Drew Bledsoe

That was the plan. The way our defense was playing, we wanted to keep the pressure on them.

That was the game, turning them away on defense when it counted.

That was very well executed, ... Scoring and then playing defense and not letting them score was crucial.

That was the difference. Our defense gave them problems and it was especially encouraging for us to rebound the way we did considering they have to 6-foot-3 girls.

That was probably the worst game of my whole career. My defense was off. My rebounding was bad, and my shot was just horrible.

That was probably part defense and probably partly them missing shots they can make.

Kirk Hinrich

That was definitely needed for this team. He was playing like Tyson can, getting rebounds, playing defense and scoring some points.

That was big for our defense to hold them to just a field goal after the kick return.

That was probably one of the better team games we've played all season. We played great defense in the second half and didn't give them any easy baskets.

Avery Johnson

That was one of the reasons why we won that first quarter, ... Doug was running the offense a lot of the time, and his on-the-ball defense is always good.

Chauncey Billups

That was kind of fun. It was a high-tempo shootout until the end. Our offense is good, and we have some great offensive players, but defense is still what we do.

Dusty Baker

Some of it has to do with the fact that we have a strikeout pitching staff. I always liked my teams at the top of the league in defense and double plays. Any time you can get two outs on one pitch, it's a lot less pitches for your pitchers. A lot of times, it gets you out of the inning out of trouble.

Luke Babbitt

Some nights the shots just don't fall. When that happens you just have to play good defense and kind of grind out the win.

Alexander Hamilton

This power ought to be coextensive with all the possible combinations of such circumstances; and ought to be under the direction of the same councils which are appointed to preside over the common defense.

When the other team only scores three goals, it's always a positive for the defense. I thought we played a solid game defensively, played with confidence.

Adolf Hitler

Protestantism as such is a better defender of the interests of Germanism, in so far as this is grounded in its genesis and later tradition; it fails, however, in the moment when this defense of national interests must take place in a province which is either absent from the general line of its ideological world and traditional development, or is for some reason rejected.

Don Meyer

Defense involves three things: courage, energy, intelligence.

Chuck Norris

The best defense is not to offend.

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.