Famous Quotes & Sayings

That's something we talk to the guys about over and over in practice. When you get on a good run, you want to try to extend it as much as you can. We got on a good run there and stayed on it and most of the time our defense was fueling that.

That's something that can't happen. Basically, our defense has been slipping.

That's taking the pressure off the pitching. If the defense makes plays, the pitchers are rarely in a situation where they need to strike people out, but it's a tandem.

Tom Zbikowski

That's only one-third of the game. I'm pretty sure their offense and our defense are pretty important, too.

Tyrone Willingham

That is a very costly loss for this team. He is the heart and soul -- not just our defense -- but our team.

That run really pushed us for the rest of the game, and really set the tone. We just picked up our intensity on defense and that really did a lot for us on the offensive end.

That kind of stuff happens early in the season. Our defense wasn't very good, but our offense picked it up.

Will Johnson

That really pumped us up. When our offense clicks, our defense picks up and the rest of our game picks up.

It's like I told the team, it's OK to win a game like that sometimes. We won this game with defense. Our defense was pretty doggone good.

It's nice to get that first win. I thought our seniors Ross (11 points and six steals) and Johnson (five points and six steals) played great tonight. Our defense really stepped up too.

Chad Henne

It's mostly in the spread periods for the defense and trying to give the defense a look for the spread teams that come up (this season).

It's not as if we didn't know Welch could shoot. Every time we made a run, our defense would let down.

Ebony really did a great job of guarding Ortiz in the second half. Our entire team stepped it up on defense in the second half.

Everybody is eager to play defense this year. Everybody wants to get stops, everybody wants to press, everybody wants to do all that stuff, there's a lot of pride on defense.

Everybody on the defense has that one play where if they could have gotten it back ...

Everybody was great on defense. I am very proud of them. They were so tenacious on defense and just wanting it - wanting it so much.

The big key was our team defense in the second half. We forced 13 turnovers in the second half.

Chris Jones

It seemed like we were a little lackluster defensively. We take pride in defense, and that just wasn't there tonight.

Charles Lee

It's important to limit Arkansas' penetration and be there on the catch. The key to our defense is just being on the same page.

It was a pitcher's duel for awhile. It was old school pitching and defense that held them.

It was a physically hard game. But we had good defense for the entire game.

It was nice to see our defense step up like this and it helped that Kevin Donovan was up to the task in goal.

It was nice to be able to get some of the younger guys in tonight. Our defense seemed to be on the field all night. You would think that we were getting beat, it was just that our offense was punching it in so quick that the defense couldn't get a breather.

Kevin Johnson

It was kind of like a sweep, ... I took the ball. The defense thought it was a sweep. I threw it down the field.

It wasn't a lack of defense on those threes. They just made some tough shots.

It was more our defense than our offense.

It was now or never. We had to suck it up, toughen up and buckle down on defense or we were going to lose. We just made up our minds that we weren't going to be the team that was disappointed tonight.

It was not like they played good defense. We had wide-open shots all game long. We could do whatever we wanted on offense, except our shots just did not go in.

I've got to replace eight starters and I'm playing some seniors for the first time. We'll go as far as our defense takes us.

Chris Evans

I've learned a lot this year. You have to be willing to work hard and sacrifice a lot of things on and off the court. I guess I kind of gave up that scoring ego and tried to be as effective on defense as I can.

I've faced this type of defense before, but I couldn't get off many shots tonight. I knew it was going to be tough. I did what I could.

Kirk Hinrich

I've got enough problems; I'm not worried about what's going through his head. I just think it's just been really good team defense; our weak-side defense has been great since we played them.

Oklahoma State had something like 10 straight possessions in the first half without a basket. Our defense really stepped up.