Famous Quotes & Sayings

Defense is a big part of the game, and that was the difference in the game tonight. They had an inning where they made some mistakes and we took advantage.

Defense has been the strength of this team for three years.

Defense has been our weak point this year, particularly in the second half.

Defense has been our strength this season, and it saved us tonight.

Defense has been our only consistent. Offensively, we score 70 in one game, then 29 in the next, it's been crazy. But our defense is always consistently tough and I'm real happy with that.

Defense has been our motto all year, and we stuck to it.

Defense has been our key all season long. When you're not scoring, you have to find a way to keep the other team from scoring, and we did that. When they got hot, we took away their hot people in the second half.

Defense has been a strong point thus far. But that offense slowly but surely, it's coming.

Defense doesn't demand a lot of schemes, it demands a lot of heart. You've got to want to stop somebody as much as you want to score yourself.

Caron Butler

Defense can help you get on some magnificent runs and put teams away. That's what we're looking forward to because we know we can score. We have a lot of offensive-minded guys that can fill it up so, if we get stops, we'll have no problems on the other end.

Defense as a whole is going to be very big for us. We're going to have to team rebound. Our aggressiveness is going to be the key and how mentally strong we're gonna be.

Defense and rebounding are the reasons we are more competitive this year. We're a better team.

Defense and penalties I thought we reduced a lot of those things. It was a team effort for us and I'm proud of the way we played.

Defense and government contractors couldn't make anything inexpensive if their lives depended on it.

They're a good football team. What we need to do is play our type of defense and to be sound. We need to give the quarterback some different looks and we need to fly around the the football and then we've got a chance.

They're not that good. They're overrated. They got too much hype. They didn't have that tight defense tonight. We proved that. If they had good defense, we never would have come back.

They have no superstar. You just have to go out there and play them straight up. You have to play good team defense. Our team has to maintain focus and stay within the team defense concept.

They have some young players and we designed the defense early to try and not give them anything easy. I thought players did an excellent job of that.

Christopher Dodd

There's been a list of witnesses who have come forward -- seven different people who corroborated that Mr. Bolton tried to fire a defense analyst. Not just one -- seven different people, all within this administration.

At halftime it was like walking into a morgue. We talked about defense and rebounding. Maybe it's happening because we're playing a lot of kids and we get out of a rhythm on defense.

Ron Rivera

As we said all the way through training camp: We felt we were a good team. We felt we were on the rise. ... We talked about where we felt we could be as a defense ? being in the top 10, being in the top five, being No. 1, finishing No. 1. The ultimate prize has always been the playoffs and getting to the Super Bowl.

Mike Connolly

As usual, Tufts and Trinity will be tough and Bates and Colby are our rivals which makes them always tough to play against. However, I feel our goals are realistic if we do the little things like play good defense and get quality pitching.

Dan Davis

As you can see, it's starting to rub off on other players. The whole defense is starting to play with some enthusiasm. We'll come to the line, talk a little smack.

As much respect as I have for their offense, I really wasn't that impressed by their defense on film. Twenty-five points wasn't what we expected there. More like 56.

A. N. Wilson

Aberdeen likes to the work the ball, there were times when we were on defense for a minute and a half in the first half. But we didn't give up any back doors or any open shots - we were really patient hence the score was so low.

They stepped up their defense and started trapping. We just weren't strong with the ball, but we got the job done. Was I worried? Yeah, but it never got to the point where we completely lost control.

They started knocking down some shots. They took some things away with their defense, but we got some stops when we needed them. Like I told them afterwards, it's not supposed to be easy.

Darryl Sydor

They seem to be getting too many odd-man rushes lately, and good defense is going to lead to good offense and we just have to concentrate on that.

They scored so fast tonight, it seemed like we were playing defense all night.

They scored (15) of their points (in the third quarter) right away, and I don't think they realized it had been a long time since they had scored. We were playing really good defense ... we just needed to start shooting.

They say that defense wins championships, and we feel like we play good enough zone and man defense to go far in the tournament. Offensively, with the size we have, we always stress getting our inside game working because that will open up the outside for us, too.

They put new plays in, stuff we didn't know about. They just ran us off a lot of screens. In the first half, that killed us. We didn't come with the focus and energy on defense like we usually do.

They pulled back into a man-to-man defense to take away our spread, high-pick offense. We just hit a thousand shots.