Famous Quotes & Sayings

I was really pleased with our effort tonight. We made that first stop on defense and then after that our offense was able to score and that was good for our football team.

I was really impressed with the team play and unselfishness. Everybody stepped up on defense as a team tonight.

Tommy Amaker

I was really happy the way we shared the ball. And we played much better defense in the second half.

Kyle Brooks

I was proud of my kids at halftime. We battled back, and I thought our defense was pretty good.

I was primed and prepared to be the starter on defense in my junior year but things just went bad.

I was pretty much feeling it on offense and defense and on the boards. When one of your big guys goes out you need to pick something up and I did that.

I was pretty disappointed with our defensive effort right at the start. Our starters didn't play any defense at the beginning.

I wasn't too happy with our defense in the first quarter. The second quarter we played better defense and that helped offensively.

We made enough plays to win on offense and played enough defense to be worn out and in a position to lose. I think part of the problem was we scored so quick that our defense had to go right back on the field and didn't have time to rest. We weren't tackling very well. We couldn't get people to the point of attack.

We have a very versatile defense and we have a lot of guys who can do a variety of things. It's tough for offenses, but that's our job.

We have a very good defense and tonight we played very strong.

We haven't been putting up big numbers offensively and have to rely on defense to win games. We can get it done with our defense, and that is why we are winning games right now.

We haven't been a great shooting team all season. Our shooting has been streaky. Our defense has to be rock solid for 32 minutes. That's been our formula.

Steve Nash

We haven't really clicked. That's frustrating. But our defense has really picked up.

Steve Nash

We haven't played well offensively. We haven't really clicked, and that's frustrating, but at the same time our defense has really picked up, and given us an opportunity to win in all three of our losses.

We need the same old Cameo. Great intensity and jump-start us from the start. Rebounding all over the glass. And, defensively, I don't think people recognize what a great job she's doing playing three different positions. She really takes her defense to heart and is a big part of why we've been able to take teams out of their offense.

The pressure defense hurt us. We made too many turnovers. We had a good run at the end, but we ran out of gas. I give them a lot of credit.

We all played really good defense tonight. We're focusing on defense. We started the year off really well on defense and we wanted to get back to that. We're glad to be out of our slump.

We couldn't get in a flow of things offensively. Their defense was just a little too much for us, a little too physical. We had to fight for every point we could get.

We couldn't get a stop. We could never get that lead. Our defense let us down and we just couldn't get over the hump.

Paul Hewitt

We couldn't get anything to fall. Their defense was a good part of the reason we didn't make any shots, but we had some roll off.

Brent Johnson

We were very good last year, but we went out and got what was on our wish list. The maturity level on our defense is huge.

Drew Brees

We were tying to go down and get points and pad that lead, but they did a good job getting back into the game. But our defense did a heck of a job holding them.

Chris Chelios

We were more patient on defense tonight. We have a new system, and (Wednesday) night, we were still standing around, thinking about what to do. Tonight we had it down.

We were looking for our defense to spark our offense, we shut a good team down tonight.

Dave Cook

We can score from the inside, the outside, in transition or in the half court. Then we can play some lock-down defense too. I am just really proud right now.

We can play as well as any of the teams in the league, we just have to play good defense and minimize mistakes.

We can play any style. But we've been in enough physical games like this now and we know how to handle it. We have some tough kids. Our man-to-man defense can be stifling and it's nice that I do not have to put in some funky defenses just to stop people.

We dropped some games earlier in the season where if our defense had been better, we would have had a better chance.

Arron Afflalo

We'd probably lose. That's what is keeping us on top. Our defense leads to easy buckets on offense.

We do work very hard on defense and knew we had to make some adjustments to play this team differently than we did the first time. We gave them too much of an inside presence over at our place.

We couldn't find the rhythm on offense because of our defense. We usually get it going with our defense. If we play defense like this, we can't do it.

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.