Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dusty Baker

They're playing hard, we just didn't play good defense. You can't give runs away in the major leagues, even at the end of the season. You have to play to win every day, and our defense didn't do that.

Bill Tierney

They're a very talented team, they play great defense and their goalie has been playing very well.

They're a very fundamentally sound team and an extremely good shooting team from 3-point range. They spread it out on offense. They have a freshman post player who's outstanding, and their guard play is just unbelievable. We'll see (today) how tough our defense is.

They're going to be moving all over the field. We definitely need to talk a lot and get ready to play defense on a man that's not your man.

They're going to be missed. They were a great part of the team on defense and special teams.

Eric Chavez

They're going to be a lot like us last year. They're not going to keep hitting like that, but they don't have to. They have solid defense and great pitching, just like they always do.

They're extremely quick and they all know what they're doing at all times. They get out and play defense and have all the lanes covered. They're so disciplined.

They're extremely fast. I was impressed with their speed. But our defense held them; no one was in double figures.

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.

Mike Shanahan

If you can't get drives going and the defense is out there continuously, someone's going to wear out sooner or later.

Troy Polamalu

If we want to go where we want to go, we can't play like that, ... We have high expectations of our defense and our organization.

Bobby Bowden

If you had told me that we would have hold them to seven points, I would have told you that we would win. What our defense did in this game is amazing, especially the defensive line. A few weeks ago, we didn't know who would be playing up there.

Ned Yost

If you give up just one run, the game's over if you don't score. When it's 11-0, it's everything, pitching, defense and hitting.

Jim Haslett

In this business, guys get hurt and I think everybody else has to elevate their game. The defense has to play better, the quarterbacks are going to have to play better, the linemen are going to have to play better.

In the first half we played out 'ugly' defense and they had trouble with it. To hold Norway to 16 points in the first half is a good sign.

In the first half, our defense was erratic and we had a lot of shots rim out. But in the second half they worked really hard to come back. We had our chances, but we missed too many free throws.

In the first half, I thought we were playing well defensively, but we just weren't making any shots. For once this season, it was our defense that held us up.

In the last minute-and-a-half we got a little sloppy on defense, but our girls did a great job on defense all night.

In the first quarter we started out really flat. We got a lot of good shots, but we didn't hit any of them and on defense we were giving up shots. It was kind of scary, really.

Shawn Marion

In the first quarter, they were hitting shots. Sometimes, you can't play any better defense then we did. They were hitting shots with hands in their faces. In the second quarter, we opened up a little more and got a rhythm going.

In the first half, we were playing kind of nonchalant. Sometimes our offense is off but we'll still play decently on defense and that will keep us in the game.

In the first half we tried to let them play and showcase their individual talents, and in the second half we played a little better defense and rebounded better.

Intensity-wise I'm happy with the way they played. The defense was moving all over the field.

In our defense we want everyone to help each other out. We have some experience back there. It's just a matter of how long it takes for that group to get comfortable together.

Kevin Towers

In our ballpark, the emphasis is as much on defense as it is on offense with our outfield, ... We saw it. We got out-doubled and out-tripled in our park. We really have to have somebody really go out and get the ball.

In order to win games you have to rebound and you have to play defense. Rebounding is something we've done in all our games and we did a good job today. The defense comes from the heart and we played well tonight.

I pride myself on (the team) playing good defense. That's how we score, our defense is our thing.

I played like that. Defense has to be an exciting thing. I think there's a lot of ways to score on defense and I try to emphasize that.

Rocky Bernard

In years past, that's what has hurt us: our defense. We pretty much had all new faces on defense (in 2005), so you never knew how things would turn out. But we've done pretty well.