Famous Quotes & Sayings

I think the reason we scored so many goals is that the defense played great the past two games. They set up the offense for us.

Steve Spurrier

Jasper made a heck of a play, then Jerod June stepped in there and made a play. So the defense made a nice rally after getting way behind.

Jasmine Payne is offense or defense and when we need a big point, we give it to her. She's a team player and she's not worried all about herself.

Peja Stojakovic

Jeff played great defense on Mike James on the last shot. It was a tough shot to make and it won the game.

Jeff hasn't scored yet, but for his side, just Jeff being on the field keeps their defense honest.

Jamie is all about defense. I think Maggie is starting to develop that same feeling because you can see her team play tougher, hard-nosed defense every game.

Jay had some good games on defense this year when he really had to guard somebody.

Kristina did great and our defense was good, but our hitting was just disappointing. We had eight hits but they were scattered through seven innings. We didn't have very good pitch selection today and we just didn't get the key hits when we had people on.

Pat Rice

Kris Canto is to our defense what Nick Clemens is to the offense.

Eddie Jordan

Larry has been playing pretty good defense on Gil and taking away some of the things we like to do.

Lee Corso

Larry Coker doesn't have the talent to win the national title. They have great depth on defense and a good kicking game, but I don't see a major-league running back.

Laura Bush

largest increase in defense spending in two decades.

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.

That's the way a football team is supposed to work. The defense helps special teams, special teams helps the offense, and the offense helps the defense. Everybody helps each other. That's really the way it is when it's working well, and it was working well (Friday).

That's what a lot of teams do. We have good inside players. They try to take it away. When they do, we have to take what the defense gives us. They stepped up and hit some great shots.

Mathias Kiwanuka

That's the staple of our defense. We followed up a big play by them with a big play of our own. That's how you stop people.

Brad Miller

That sucker is fast and crafty. You just have to play a Steve Nash defense on him and give him some space.

Charles Williams

That's the only score that I can remember. 58-53. We just have to come out and try to outplay them. We have to play better defense this time.

Charlie Batch

That's the objective -- to get the play off before they can substitute on defense,

That's what hurt us. It's hard playing an extra 35 seconds on defense.

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.