Famous Quotes & Sayings

We're still making adjustments in personnel to get to where we want to be. But we need to play better defense, no matter who we've got out there. Our interior defense needs to improve. Our help defense needs to get after it, if we're going to get back to where we were last year.

We're still learning and trying to get better. We played better defense and didn't give anything away.

We're starting to play playoff hockey. Early in the season we were winning games 7-4, and you're not going to go very far in the playoffs if you're all offense. You've got to be able to play defense as well.

We're searching for chemistry. Our defense needs to come together, and they know that. I think they're going to work on that all week this week.

We've got a really solid defense out there and I don't have any worries about my defense. They get dirty, they get after the ball. They usually make routine plays very easily.

We've waited a long time for this. This year, what they do as a team played right into our hands. We took the middle away and played great defense throughout.

We've tried to redesign the defense a little bit.

John Beilein

When we don't get turnovers, we can't win. We had just enough late to hold on to the lead by playing tight defense and swarming the ball. We really dug out some ugly rebounds tonight.

When we do hit, like today, we just don't play defense. We haven't put together a solid game of pitching, hitting and defense in God-knows how long. It's killing us.

Todd Heap

When we get a lead like that of 10 points, the defense can sit back and play the way they want to play. When they're able to do that, they're a lot more dangerous.

Lawrence Frank

We had 10 straight empty possessions. We missed a ton of open shots, and that puts a ton of pressure on the defense. It was a combination of their No. 1 scoring defense and us missing a lot of uncontested shots.

Brandon Wallace

We felt like the defense put us in a position to win. But at the end we had another let down. The guy had an open shot and made it.

We felt like from the start of the game, that (Rice) was a team that we could beat. ... If we played hard on defense for 25, 30 minutes, we could have won this game.

We've been practicing free throws. I knew that we had to knock them down, we had to play defense and don't foul.

We've been playing pressure defense all year. We've been getting in the high 20's for turnovers all year.

We've been playing horrible defense lately, giving up more than 80 points the last few games. We wanted to come out and send a message that we can still play defense like we used to. We accomplished what we wanted to do defensively.

We've been playing great defense the last six games. The front has been playing great and the kids just played their butts off today.

We've been playing good defense as of late. We're holding teams to single digit scoring during periods.

We've been playing at a high level on defense all year. I thought our linemen did a good job of putting pressure on their quarterback and kept the big plays to a minimum.

We seem to be getting good defense and good pitching. We just have to work on the hitting. We gotta get stronger. But you start six freshmen and three sophomores, you're going to get that.

We're the only lower seed to move on. We're going to play defense and go at Conant. We have nothing to lose.

We've been looking forward to this. After the (first time the two met), we figured they'd come in wanting us. So we were ready. We played great defense and everyone contributed. It was a pretty good game for us.

We've been living and dying with our defense and trying to get some shots. Our defense has got to be there for us, and it was really good today.

We need to start playing better defense and with more energy. We can't let teams stay in the game.

We need to start getting runs earlier in games. We need to jump on teams and take the pressure off our defense and pitching.

Albert Haynesworth

The defense you saw last week wasn't the real Tennessee defense, and hopefully we're not going to play like that anymore,

The defense won the game for us tonight. The defense was outstanding and I think that we are starting to come together as a team and we are helping each other out.

Jim Davies

The defense was very good tonight; we played an outstanding defensive game.

The defense was trying to get after the quarterback like we always do. We had a lot of guys rotate in like we always do. I think we did a good job up front.

The defense was there all day and we're thrilled.

The defense struggled in the first half, but regrouped at the half and finished the game strong.

The defense stepped up, which is what we expect around here.

The defense stepped up huge. Three goals (Friday), no goals (Saturday) - that's huge.