Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ron Rivera

As we said all the way through training camp: We felt we were a good team. We felt we were on the rise. ... We talked about where we felt we could be as a defense ? being in the top 10, being in the top five, being No. 1, finishing No. 1. The ultimate prize has always been the playoffs and getting to the Super Bowl.

Mike Connolly

As usual, Tufts and Trinity will be tough and Bates and Colby are our rivals which makes them always tough to play against. However, I feel our goals are realistic if we do the little things like play good defense and get quality pitching.

Dan Davis

As you can see, it's starting to rub off on other players. The whole defense is starting to play with some enthusiasm. We'll come to the line, talk a little smack.

As much respect as I have for their offense, I really wasn't that impressed by their defense on film. Twenty-five points wasn't what we expected there. More like 56.

A. N. Wilson

Aberdeen likes to the work the ball, there were times when we were on defense for a minute and a half in the first half. But we didn't give up any back doors or any open shots - we were really patient hence the score was so low.

It's just a matter of everyone relaxing and playing consistent. You have to put hitting, pitching and defense together.

They were hurting us with the '3'. We started in a zone and went to a man. That is my favorite defense anyway. We just needed to get in their face.

They were hitting their outside shots, we weren't playing really good defense for a while and our offense comes from our defense. Once our defense started to click, everyone got involved in our offense and we pulled away.

John Jay

They were exceptional. I've never seen them shoot like that. We're the leading 3-point defense team in the Pac-10 and they shot us right out of the fight.

They were down and they knew they had to play better defense. We didn't play defense in the first half, and we knew we needed to in the second half to make it a ballgame. If we would have done that in the first half, we would have been fine.

John Davidson

This is a game that primarily was about defense and goaltending over the last decade, but I think that's about to change, ... In the exhibition games I've watched, the pace of the game is much, much, much quicker.

Tommy Aldridge

This had a feeling similar to the Mesquite game, especially to be able to pull this out after losing the heartbreaker on Wednesday. We didn't shoot well, but we played good defense. I think our defense will sustain us.

They're the key to the team. We just played a little better defense in the second half.

Pat Murphy

They've got a phenomenal offense and a great defense to go with it, ... so they've got everything they need to be state champs.

They've got a lot of speed on defense and it showed. We knew that going in but seeing it out on the field is a lot different than watching film. But we learned a lot tonight about our team. We learned they're they can get tough when they need to. They played with a lot of guts tonight.

They've got a good team, they really do. They wouldn't get second in this league if they weren't real good. They play well together, they pass the ball, they get it to the open man. And they played real good defense on us.

They've got a defense that's kind of similar to Berkeley's. They try to get in and penetrate and disrupt.

They've got a defense that's kind of similar to Berkeley's, ... They try to get in and penetrate and disrupt.

They've gone from playing defense to seeing some of these initiatives pay off.

Ken Jennings

They (the players) said they wanted a rematch. I told them the only way we could do was we had to play defense. Defense wins games.

They run a lot of misdirection. You have to make sure your defense is disciplined and stay on your keys.

They've been a big-play team and they showed that with the halfback pass (intercepted by McRae) on the first play. They had scored a ton (and) the defense shut them down and gave us great field position all night.

They stepped up their defense and started trapping. We just weren't strong with the ball, but we got the job done. Was I worried? Yeah, but it never got to the point where we completely lost control.

They started knocking down some shots. They took some things away with their defense, but we got some stops when we needed them. Like I told them afterwards, it's not supposed to be easy.

Darryl Sydor

They seem to be getting too many odd-man rushes lately, and good defense is going to lead to good offense and we just have to concentrate on that.

They scored so fast tonight, it seemed like we were playing defense all night.

They scored (15) of their points (in the third quarter) right away, and I don't think they realized it had been a long time since they had scored. We were playing really good defense ... we just needed to start shooting.

They say that defense wins championships, and we feel like we play good enough zone and man defense to go far in the tournament. Offensively, with the size we have, we always stress getting our inside game working because that will open up the outside for us, too.

They put new plays in, stuff we didn't know about. They just ran us off a lot of screens. In the first half, that killed us. We didn't come with the focus and energy on defense like we usually do.

They pulled back into a man-to-man defense to take away our spread, high-pick offense. We just hit a thousand shots.

A lot of our offense we didn't get to because the defense scored twice.

A lot of folks will look at this and think it was our offense, but we scored 36 points in the first half. It was our defense early that let us down. That was the key. We'd held teams in the SEC to 17, 19 and 22 points, and we gave up 46 in the first half. We dug ourselves into a hole, but it was the defense.

Kyle Smith

It's tough starting the year with two straight on the road. Our defense played strong and our offense put it in the end zone.