Famous Quotes & Sayings

Everything has been defense, defense, defense. However, I agree. We have got to improve our defense.

Everything they put up, it was on the money. They were solid all the way around. From the defense to the blocking, their setting improved greatly, and everything they put up worked.

Even though they only scored 43 points, our defense was not very good.

Even tired, our defense did the job on them. They (the Lady Cherokees) didn't rest on defense.

Even though we scored 10 points in the first half, we were playing tough defense. We told the guys to pick up the offensive intensity.

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.

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.

Drafting for the 3-4 defense is difficult. It's a process of relearning some of the defensive techniques and needs for the defense.

Defensively, we were pretty solid over all four quarters. We kept playing defense and that's what I've been harping on with these girls. You keep playing defense, the offense is going to come eventually. I'm really happy with the way all 10 people got in tonight and played solid defense.

Defensively, we have to turn it up a notch. Offensively, I think we're going to be all right. We do have to start making the shots when they count. But defense is going to be the key.

Defensively, we got back to basics. We did a really focused job of playing man-to-man defense and of keeping the plays in front of us.

Defensively we did what we had to do and for us, that's huge because we haven't been playing real good defense to this point.

Defensively, they are so good. They play such good help defense and they've got quick people, and they just took us out of our offense. But our kids played hard.

Defensively I thought we did a pretty good job with our 1-3-1 zone defense in the first half. We found their shooters when they tried to overload it.

Defense wins our games for us. It's just a very good defensive effort.

Defense wins games and championships. You can see that. We know that. As long as we play defense the way it's supposed to be played, we have a great chance.

Arron Afflalo

Defense wins championships. He (Howland) always uses other teams as examples in every other sport to show that the top defensive team in that sport generally is the winner.