Famous Quotes & Sayings

No question. The defense stayed constant, but obviously when you miss free throws you give them a chance.

No question Anacortes played outstanding defense after the first quarter.

Normally this always happens. During the spring, the defense always wins. It's nothing new; the fans should know it happens every year.

No store is going to always have nothing but fresh beer. The last line of defense is consumers.

A game like this last year, who knows if we win it or lose it? We couldn't have gone 0-2, and to go out and have the defense finish a game for us, it's a step in the right direction.

Gary Baxter

The moves they made in the off-season, those are key ingredients to a winning record. I think guys are excited about the fact that we really made some strong moves and put some guys in place on offense and defense to try to help this team get in better position to win and compete.

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.

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.

Defense was why we won this game because we went for long stretches without scoring ourselves.