Famous Quotes & Sayings

They're extremely fast. I was impressed with their speed. But our defense held them; no one was in double figures.

Don Meyer

Defense involves three things: courage, energy, intelligence.

I know it is an old cliche, but defense wins championships and this was like a championship game.

I know I always pride myself on defense because that's what wins championships.

I know I have to improve my offense - my jump shot and my moves in the post. I feel comfortable with where my defense is, but my scoring has to get better.

Derrick Brooks

In this game there are so many rules favoring the offense. To see a little defense being played is a good thing.

I just had an off night. The defense was keeping us in the game, and we just couldn't get anything going on offense. I take most of the responsibility for that.

I hope it's not a shootout, ... I hope we score a lot of points and our defense holds them to zero.

I hope, at some point, we're all going to understand the importance of defense and how good a team we can be if we play defense.

Osi Umenyiora

I haven't felt this excitement in here about any player since I've been here. It feels like he's the missing link as far as this defense goes.

I have to see where the defense and my linemen are, ... I have to set them up in the right place to make the right blocks.

I really feel like we're growing as a team and as a defense, and I want to be a part of it,

I pride myself on (the team) playing good defense. That's how we score, our defense is our thing.

I played like that. Defense has to be an exciting thing. I think there's a lot of ways to score on defense and I try to emphasize that.

Rocky Bernard

In years past, that's what has hurt us: our defense. We pretty much had all new faces on defense (in 2005), so you never knew how things would turn out. But we've done pretty well.

In the second half, we played better defense. And the defense started the offense. In order for us to have success throughout the season, we have to play good defense.

In the second half we played better defense and got running.

In the second half, our whole goal was to pick up our defensive intensity and score on the break. Pretty much just make our defense our offense. We did exactly what we wanted to do.

In the second half, our shots started to fall, but the good thing was we found out we could play man-to-man defense in this tournament.

Mike Krzyzewski

In the second half, once we got organized and played better in the half court, our defense was excellent.

Karl Rove

In the normal back-and-forth between prosecutor and defense attorneys, some issues were raised that made the prosecutor step back and have pause for thought as far as his future activities, ... He thought, 'This is enough for me to hold off making decisions.'

Interior defense was such an issue with us. Ostertag is going to help that,

Ron Dayne

In that situation, just do what you have to do to get the first down, ... That's it, just get the first down. And everybody on the defense is up (on the line of scrimmage), so once you get past that first down, then you think touchdown. First down, touchdown.

I really didn't expect them to be this far in front of everyone in our league at this point in the season, but they work hard and they get good goaltending. So much of their game is played in the offensive zone. They don't have to rely too much on their defensive zone. They have a young defense - they don't have to rely on them to play that well.

Chan Gailey

If you take an all-conference performer and put him on the field, it's going to help your defense a lot, ... We'll see if we can get him up to speed.

If you were a prosecutor, there probably would be a responsibility to disclose this. The defense has no obligation in reverse. No one (on the stand) has a duty to disclose more than the questions require.

Jim Haslett

If you want to use the word we stunk on defense and we played probably good enough on offense but we still had opportunities to score more points. But we left them on the field.

In my mind, our defense is not as intense as it has been in past years. In the past, we have had a defense that we can be proud of. Now we need guys on the second and third team that will push us and show that they want to play.

Essence Carson

In every game, a good opponent is going to make a run. We knew it was up to us to clamp down on defense and get the stops we needed.

In a homicide case, a person's mental state is at issue. Depending on what that evaluation shows it will dictate defense strategy.

I myself don't think she has anything surprising to say, but I'm not working on the strategy for either the state or the other defense attorneys.

It helps when you shoot well, and we shot really well in the first half. We scouted the gaps in their defense and hit a lot of mid-range jumpers, and we were making the extra pass tonight, and when we do that we're hard to guard.

Ben Roethlisberger

It helps when your defense plays as well as ours did. Throw two picks, that's a recipe for disaster. But the defense kept making plays.