Famous Quotes & Sayings

I told the guys to just play good defense and no make (Riley-Smith) put it on the floor and work for a shot. They did that. I'm proud of these guys. I've been preaching to these guys about finishing off games. We finished one off tonight.

I told them let's get back to playing Savannah basketball. You have to play defense at this point in the season.

I told them before the game, defense and foul shots were going to win the game, and they proved me right. They made the key foul shots when we needed them.

I told the team that I was more pleased with the three (runs allowed) than the 14. If you pitch and play defense well, you can go a long way.

I told them when we went into the locker room they were going to have to play better or we could lose this game. We had to come out here after this long lay off after the regular season and put up the kind of defense we always try to. And that worked out for us in the second half.

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Derek Jeter

Everybody talks about our offense, but that doesn't win games. Pitching and defense does.

Rajon Rondo

Everybody gets down on Patrick's defense. He showed it tonight. It was all determination and desire.

Every game it seems like they have a little different game plan, whether they pinch the ends or run stunts in the middle. I don't think the Seattle defense does as much as just that the middle linebacker is just that good. He's fast, he's quick and when you have 320-pound lineman running after you and you're 230 and run a 4.4 or 4.5, you're going to be free a lot of the time. It's hard to get on him.

Drew Miller

Every line was going, our defense were making passes, making good plays in our zone. It just seemed like everything was just flowing.

At that point our defense really shut them down.

At this point of the season, defense gets you to the next round. We've got to play defense like we did during league.

After one game, if I go in there and say, 'OK, guys, this 3-4 sucks, so I'm throwing it out,' and after another game, 'Hey, this new defense I put in last week sucks, so I'm throwing that out,' then they don't have a system, they don't have a defense and they don't know what to hang their hat on,

After I missed the first shot, I think I started rushing. I never did get a rhythm offensively in the game, so that's all that happened. It wasn't anything the defense was doing.

The most important part of our team is teamwork and defense we play. Everybody was into it.

Anthony Spencer

Stop the run and make them pass. That is how we are operating on defense right now.

Randy Foye

Some teams play man, some teams play zone, so in practice we just go with everything to be ready for whatever defense we're going to play that night,

Bob Burns

Something like secretary of defense or state would be hard to turn down.

Bob McNair

Some people think this is a ploy. It's not. We think he's just as dominant a player on defense as Reggie is on offense. The thing we've been missing has been a pass rush.

Southwest has an excellent team. They rushed for 412 yards last week and their defense shut out Siloam.

Kevin Stallings

Sparks can make you stretch your defense more than you want. I think it shows how much teams respect him that he still was not getting many open looks even when he was not shooting well. Nobody wants to let him get on a roll with his shooting because if he does, he can shoot you out of a game.

Sound, disciplined defense. That's what Navy defense is all about.

Once we went back to man-to-man (defense), they were long gone.

Once we started playing hard defense we started scoring easy baskets.

One guy shot, and another guy tipped it out to another dude who missed it at the buzzer. I was not thinking about Holy Cross. I was thinking about hustling on defense and the fact we won the game.

Takeo Spikes

Once you have an offense down like that, in order to be a great defense (you) don't let up, don't take the foot off the pedal. We're definitely not feeling sorry for anybody. You should have prepared better.

On defense we were real solid today. We are starting to do the little things right that lead to wins.

Once we get on the same page we'll be able to do some big things. This offense gives an opportunity to make a play. And the defense has to be prepared for more so it helps the run.

We did a great job on defense tonight.

We did a great job in team defense and we shut down Vince. Richard Jefferson still had a big game, Kidd was a little off. You can't let all three of them have great games or they'll hurt you.

We did a good job of executing on defense in the first half. But we missed scoring opportunities after turnovers.

We did a good job defensively the whole game. It's just a matter of hitting shots. We played the same intense defense and got out of there with a win.

We didn't play defense very well tonight. That's one thing we've relied on, one thing we've keyed on and we didn't do a good job.