Famous Quotes & Sayings

We feed off each other, ... The offense makes some plays, and then the defense makes some plays. The offense was able to set the tone.

We feel the defense was a successful one.

Ryan Suter

We're finally starting to tighten up and realize that defense wins games this time of year. It's good to take the load off Tomas because he's worked his butt off all year.

We're finally getting to the point that we want to play at. We're pitching, playing solid defense and getting some timely hits.

Chuck Hagel

We're isolating ourselves in the world ... And I think that the leadership of the Pentagon has done that in many ways to us, ... This issue of a secretary of defense not personally signing these letters is just astounding.

We're in the Valley League now, so London will see every gimmick defense there is ---- box-and-one, triangle-and-two.

We're just smarter on defense now. We made a lot of mistakes last season because we weren't communicating that well, but now we've really come together. We all understand where we're supposed to be and it shows.

Steve Spurrier

We're just looking at him over there, see if he can help us there. He'll probably be back at defense the next day or two.

Les Miles

We're getting out-schemed by the defense right now, ... Our offense has been sloppy.

We're getting healthier, and our defense has done a terrific job all year. It should be a good game.

We're getting good results out of him when he is running the ball. He got off to a slow start. One of the problems that Jerome has had since he's been here is not being a very physical runner. He has shown at times, the last few weeks, where he's initiating the hit instead of the defense doing that.

We're getting better. One thing I like is that in every game we're not having the same top two scorers, and that's been a big thing for our confidence. I think they're starting to understand the intensity and style of defense we want to play.

We're a young team, but I thought we settled down in the second and third innings and played better defense. I liked the defense overall.

We're really focused on rebounding and forcing turnovers. We know our defense is there; we need to work on our offense a little more.

We're quicker and we can play more pressure defense than last year. And we're ready. We were a little rusty tonight because we hadn't played in a week, but we're ready.

Matthew Lewis

With the second year beginning, the team has come together. The defense looks to improve with a much-improved offense.

We let them score a lot more than the last time we played them. It was one of those nights when we were reeling and didn't play to our ability. We were a step slow on defense everywhere.

We knew they'd been a hot team this whole tournament. We had to play good defense if we wanted to win a championship, and I think we did a good job.

We lacked intensity on defense in the first quarter. After the first quarter we played a pretty solid game, so things are looking up for us.

Flip Saunders

We know when to lock down. Our defense hasn't slipped at all.

Tayshaun Prince

We know what our capabilities are: to have our defense get some stops and try to get started on our offensive game, which wasn't happening for us.

We know we've got to use the run to set up the pass. If we can do that, we can keep the score down and we can help the defense stay off the field.

We're going in thinking defense first. We're going to try to shut them down and get some offense off of our defense.

Tony Banks

We're glad to get this win over a good team that played great defense all game. This is our seventh straight trip to Troy, and we feel fortunate to be able to go after fighting for this win tonight.

We're just going to have to make sure that our defense and intensity are there. We have to understand what we need to do defensively and help each other out, and hopefully we'll be able to stop them.

Like I always say, defense wins games. Today once we settled down, we made a lot of big plays.

Luke's execution from the point, and his defense on Fischer was big. Luke has grown a lot this season.

Henry Bibby

Making a nice run doesn't mean anything. We didn't come out with any urgency, we didn't have any intensity and we didn't play any defense early on.

Right now I'm really focusing on defense to get better at, and I've noticed that I've been getting a lot of steals.

Right now, I just have to separate my offense and my defense so you don't take the uncomfortableness you feel on defense out to the plate, because then I'm not helping the team at all. It's like two separate games. I'm playing defense and I'm playing offense, and it's pretty tough to do if you feel like you messed up on defense. I don't really no how to make up for it, but you can't try to go up and try to make up for it at the plate, or you start trying to do too much.

Rich is a guy that I wanted on my staff when I went to Martin. We're going to use the same defense we ran at Martin, and he is very knowledgeable of that defense.

Rice has as good an offensive player as their is in the league. They start with him and that's important. Transition defense will be very important. They are a very good transition team. And defensively, they are doing a lot of different things.

(Petersen) is definitely our No. 1 defender. He's the only senior we have on defense, so he keeps the defense in check.