Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

All of our defense played well. Jenna Bowers, our sweeper, holds it together back there, but everyone played really well.

Buck Showalter

A lot of people, they overlook the defense the more a guy hits. Those all-around players like that are rare. ... He's a special defender. He turns hits into outs.

A lot of people say we haven't seen an offense like USC. They haven't seen a defense like UT.

Rudy Giuliani

America, ... needs to be defended. We need missile defense to better police the skies over the United States.

Ray Johnson

They make so many things happen that you have to point your defense at them. They make their team go. You go in with the idea that, if you can stop him, you can stop the team. But that's easier said than done.

They make defense their staple. They got a lot of length.

They made some adjustments after the first and played really good defense for the rest of the game.

Jeff Samardzija

They made more plays than us on offense and defense.

John Beilein

They played tremendous defense on us. They frustrate you. They're very good defenders, and we as a team have to learn how to handle it when that happens. ... I don't like the way we handled a lot of things, but we are going to learn from this game.

Jake Plummer

They played really as good as I've ever seen a defense play,

They played outstanding defense in the second half. They really stepped it up.

They played good defense in the second half, but we were also off. The shots we were making in the first half just weren't falling.

They played a real solid in-your-face man. They?re defense is very, very good and they?re well schooled.

Daniel Gibson

They pass up good shots to get great shots. You have to be ready to play defense for the entire shot clock.

They nickel-and-dime you at 3-4 yards a pop, then let the defense do the rest.

They have done a good job. (Coleman) and I have talked about tweaking the defense here and there, and the guys we have hired have been involved. They have done a remarkable job with the little time they have had together.

Kelvin Sampson

You would think we'd never, ever, ever scouted an opponent or worked on defense or any of those things. We tried to man them. We tried to zone them. We couldn't get them to miss.

You wouldn't think so. I would have said we better be playing pretty good defense if we're only going to score four baskets in the second half.

Brian Dawkins

You want the opposing offense to look at your defense and see everybody going to the ball. I thought we did a pretty good job of that today. We had guys making plays, and that's what you want from your defense.

You should be talking to Carly Hamilton and (sweeper) Carly Kimball, because our defense won this game. Nothing gets by them.

Brad Childress

You see it with all the guys that are in their first time with this offense. You can't be thinking a lot. You want to just be reacting, heading down your path and seeing what the defense is giving you, as opposed to thinking about what steps you have to take and what your landmark is and how you're involved in the protection.

You score 34 points, you expect to win the game. Our defense really let us down.

Your Honor, you can lawfully come to the defense of others, even if you are mistaken.

You're going to see a secondary play like it's never played before. I'm watching film in my sleep. Speed? We have speed everywhere. I feel like it's going to be a low-scoring game because defense wins championships.

You're going to lose games, but it's how you respond. I thought the kids did an excellent job. Our defense was the key to us getting some easy baskets early.

Jamaal Magloire

You never know until the time runs off the clock. We played good defense as if there was another possession left in the game, he was just fortunate enough to make the shot.

You play hard defense for 35 seconds and they knock the shots down ... it's frustrating.

They have a tremendously talented defense, if defense wins championships, then this defense would be the one to do it, they've been the 3A State runners-up the past two seasons.

Mark Fox

They have a real good pressure defense team. We have to be able to handle that. They're one of the few teams using full-court pressure. Because they have so much depth and quickness, they can do that.

Phil Jackson

They got their veterans back on the floor in the second quarter and started running their screen-and-rolls. They were able to play some defense and shut us down after we made a run in the second quarter.