Famous Quotes & Sayings

I see someone who doesn't' show any fear about getting up there in a big-game situation. And at third base, we feel he can play good defense at the major league level.

I've been fortunate to have been through that before, where the offense struggled and the defense had to play every snap. I've been through it, so that's where I get some of my strength from.

Rich Rodriguez

It would behoove us to have a low-scoring game. For that to happen, obviously we've got to play very well on defense and be lucky too,

I've never had a varsity touchdown before and to come out and get two on defense is big. It's good to know you can help the team win without having a big impact on offense.

The zone was our main defense last year.

The way King played us defensively, it was obvious how they felt about Adam. I don't think you focus a defense like that unless a guy is a big-time stud.

Adrian Beltre

The way I'm hitting, I'd better make those plays. This year, I'm getting paid for my defense. I work hard at it, I take pride in it. In games like this, small plays make a difference.

Thurston has some great shooters, but our defense just got in their face and shut them down.

Too many early errors. It wasn't nerves, that's for sure. It was just one of those nights. If anything, I think the defense was too relaxed. We just played five high-intensity games (against Washington), and it just wasn't there tonight.

We've been swinging it decent, but we haven't had good defense and pitching. We kind of reversed it today.

We've been stressing our defense for the whole season. It was there for a while, then it kind of went away. We needed to get back to it today.

We've been sort of a mystery because we can do all three well, but we can't do them together. We've had a hard time of doing them all together. Like last weekend, we pitched well and played defense, but lost two of three games (against Kentucky). The one game we hit well and played defense and pitched, we won.

We tried to mix up our defense and got out and tried to play a little more zone. We're just not a zone-principled team.

We tried to keep the defense up on them and that led to getting our offense started. I was as happy about our defense during that stretch as I was about our offense. We tried to drive in, penetrate and then kick it out.

We talked about having to pick up our intensity on defense in order to make a difference in that game. I don?t think we really did that until the 14-minute mark in that second half, and when we did, that?s when we were able to go on a big run.

We talked about getting out and setting the tempo early, and that's what we did. We executed early and got some good shots. Our defense was pretty good also.

We talked about defense at halftime. When we went man-to-man in the second quarter they really struggled.

We just pretty much took them out of transition by getting back on defense and just hunkering down and putting a lot of guys in the paint.

We just played harder defense and did a better job in transition.

We just picked it up and started playing good belly-to-belly defense. We picked up the intensity and started making things happen.

We just need to keep working on our rebounding and defense.

We just need to execute better, play defense and get the shots to fall and we'll be alright.

We just needed to pick up the defense and the rebounding, and we did that.

We just wanted to play on him tight. But the main thing was we played together. When he drove, my teammates stepped up and stopped the ball. We played team defense on him.

We just talked about Cassie's entire role; it's just not on offense or defense. She played one of her better defense positioning games.

We just stopped running any offense at all. It was just a lack of execution. We stood flat-footed instead of being on the attack. And our defense just wasn't doing the job.

Robert Johnson

We just had to tighten up on defense and we had to finish everything we had. We had to keep them off the boards.

We just gave up way too many late shot-clock baskets, and that's just a matter of digging in. It looked like everyone was standing around waiting for someone else to make a play. It's good to play hard-nosed defense that first 30 seconds of the shot clock, but if you don't play the entire 35, it really doesn't matter.

We weren't strong enough, and they made savvy plays. Vincent is a great player, and the defense of their whole team was great.

Reggie Wayne

We weren't stressing on offense and worrying about what was wrong, ... We know we can take what the defense will give us, and we'll be all right.

Mack Brown

We weren't real proud of our run defense. We'll try to stop the run first (against Baylor). If you can't stop the run, you've got problems.

We were really focused tonight. We're playing to our strengths right now, which is pressure defense and fast-break offense.

We were pretty good in transition defense in the first half. We did a much better job in the second. Just about every time we made a mistake in the first half, bam bam, they would be right there.