Famous Quotes & Sayings

It's not one guy getting more praise than another. That mentality keeps the defense together.

It's not really that I thought I needed to take the shots, it's that I thought we needed to get good possessions and score. Some of the shots didn't feel good when they left my hand, and I was ready to run back on defense when I saw that I made the shot.

DeMeco Ryans

It's nothing special. Everyone keeps saying that it's a special offense. They're a five-wide spread offense. We've just got to come up with a defense to stop it.

It's no secret that we have a strong defense. Biddle (senior Jacob) was a force on the field tonight and the entire team fed off of the defenses energy.

It's no secret that our defense generates a lot of offense for us. That's one of the things we're going to be working on next summer. We really concentrated this year on the team defense, but now we need to work on the team offense.

Foreman pitched very well her first time out. The defense wasn't there, so she pitched even better than she looked.

Forget about 81 points. To be able to get up that many shots and still play defense at the other end of the floor, that's a pretty incredible physical accomplishment.

For being undersized, our intensity in man-to-man defense wasn't there like it has been. But it will get there. We're getting better.

It's obvious we're not where we want to be, but at the same time we can't worry about statistics. We have to stay focused and keep our individual jobs within the defense on our minds.

It's obviously very hard for them to score points if their offense isn't on the field. We know our defense is up for the challenge.

It's the meat and potatoes of scouting for a 3-4 defense.

It's (the defensive scheme) going to give every player on the defense an opportunity to make plays, especially guys that we've added.

It's the defense witness we're being offered a script for. We're being denied total access. They're sitting on the witnesses. They're not letting us have the favorable witnesses.

Bobby Jackson

It's the defense. Our defense has been extremely good all year. We're working and making it tough for teams out there, making them miss and take tough shots. Defense is what gets it all going for us.

This is special and this is a special group of guys. We play defense. That's what we do. We didn't let them walk over us.

Mike Scioscia

This is out of the blue. Everything you could have messed up, we messed up out there. These guys have played terrific defense all year, so it's very uncharacteristic.

The whole game was predicated on defense. Our defense is what we got our offense out of and our defense is what won the game for us.

This game will be a lot tougher. If we just play the defense like we played the last time, maybe a little harder, we should be OK.

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Dwight Freeney

This defense is really predicated on getting a pass rush from the front four. It's designed like Tampa Bay's with (Simeon) Rice and (Warren) Sapp.

Charles Tillman

This defense can take it to the next level, meaning the sky's the limit. We can be as good as we want to be. We can be as good as we want to be if we don't hurt ourselves.

It's a defense that gives teams a pretty hard time. But it's more of the mentality that we try to sell to the kids: This is how we will win, playing good defense.

I told him not to get down on himself when things aren't going well at the plate. Learning to separate offense from defense is the hard part of the learning curve.

I told our guys that I was pleased at how they bounced back. The defense didn't have as much pressure on them this game because our pitching really dominated.

I told our girls that defense wins championships. If we could lock them down in the half-court set and make some free throws, I knew we'd be fine.

Dwight Freeney

It's an ongoing transition to become the defense we want to be. We're nowhere near where we need to be.

It really helps to have the lead. The defense played really smart tonight.

Ben Roethlisberger

It really helps to have a (good) team around you. Having a great running game like we have, and the offensive line does a great job, and a great defense -- it just really fit me well. I was lucky to be able to fall into the situation that I fell into.

It really helps our defense stay solid when we do that.

It really comes back to things we can control. Playing defense and communicating are two things we need to work on. I look at it as a challenge. It's things we can fix, and I'm hoping sooner than later. I'm the coach. I have to keep stressing this in practice.

It's all about defense. Defense is ultimately going to win the game.

Brian Giles

It's all about pitching and defense in the playoffs,

I told the kids at halftime that it's get after it on defense or our season is ending.