Famous Quotes & Sayings

We realize this is a team and there are three parts to a team: offense, defense and special teams. We're not pointing fingers at the offense or anything. We just realize we lost the game. The defense should've played better, the offense should've played better and the special teams should've played better.

Justin Miller

We realized that when he had pressure he got scared with the ball. He'd throw it real fast. The defense stepped it up a lot. That's why I have to really give congrats to the D line. They stepped it up a whole lot. We were able to get pressure on him and he started getting it off faster and started throwing interceptions.

We played much better defense in the second half.

We played mostly man-to-man defense and then switched to a 1-3-1 and were able to shut them down.

Craig Smith

We played like a veteran team, and that's what we expected from this squad this year. I was happy with our defense and our special teams, too - I thought we played very, very well.

We played in-your-face defense and ran out to a 16-3 lead in the first quarter. At half, we led 22-10.

Phil Davis

We put (Jeffrey) Thornburg on (Josh) Johnson and he did a great job. Our linebackers did a great job. The defense did a super job all night,

Jim Haslett

We put in new guys last year. We tried to simplify some things. Hopefully this defense can pick up where it ended last year.

Bruce Thomas

We pushed ourselves on defense. It takes the pressure off the offense.

We played hard, but they just took it to a whole new level on defense in the second half. We didn't have the room to run our offense.

Chris Duhon

We played hard and our defense stepped up. They only shot about 32 percent (23-of-71) from the field, but they made the shots down the stretch.

We played great team defense. They got us for one big play which shouldn't have happened ... but the defense played exactly how we wanted them to. When we give up 14 points we expect to win.

We played great team defense. The guys were diving around all over the place making plays. ... Graves did a great job.

We played great defense. We've played pretty well defensively all year long, in fact. We've played far better on defense than we have on offense.

We played great defense the entire year. I think some people underestimate how well we play defense on the perimeter and in the paint. I think that's what kept us in the hunt.

We played great defense starting out. We just denied them. They had just nine shots in the first quarter.

We played great defense in the fourth quarter. We were trapping and scrambling, trying to force turnovers and get loose balls.

We played great defense in the first quarter. Molly, Jen and Cassie were zoning inside and played a tremendously smart game.

We played great defense. But you can't win if you can't score.

We played good team defense, got them off the offensive glass and kept our man out in front of us in the first half.

We played good enough defense to get us the win.

We played good defense today on a slow field. Surprisingly, the field was in good shape after the rain.

We played good defense. They only scored 45 points. But we couldn't shoot the ball. That's been our problem all year long. Defense gets you here but offense wins it for you.

We played good defense in the second half. We didn't give them any 3s.

We played good defense and we rebounded - that's what we do well and that's what we have to do well to win.

We played good defense and played hard. I felt like it was a total team effort.

We played good defense and made the shots when we had to.

We played good defense and got four key hits tonight.

We played good defense all game. But they were able to get timely hits.

We played good defense (all game) and ran our offense (in the second half). When we do that, we can win.

We played extremely tough at first, before they figured out what we were doing. We had to play a totally different style of defense with only three tackles.

We played even with them until the third quarter. Down the stretch we didn't play smart basketball, we got lazy on defense and were forced to foul.

We played defense as well as we could. They (Marcus) just stalled in the fourth period with a three-point lead and forced us to foul.