Famous Quotes & Sayings

Their defense had 11 Afro-American kids on their team and they were a very, very good defensive football team. It just seems to me that Afro-American kids can run very, very well.

Lawrence Frank

Their defense fueled their offense. They kept making stops.

Allan Ray

Their defense did a great job on us. Every shot was contested. There were very few open looks.

Their defense did a great job of pulling us offside. Most of those were in the second half, and we didn't respond very well to it.

Allan Ray

Their defense also did a great job, I can't take anything away from them. Every shot was contested; there were very few real open looks. They did a great job contesting our shots and making sure we took tough shots.

John Gibbons

Their infield defense is as good as anybody's in baseball.

Their guards are very good. Our transition defense was poor.

Their first two goals were terrible. Our defense played awful.

Gary Carter

I'm doing wonderful after a good win like that. We had great situational hitting tonight ... Our pitching and defense won this for us.

Cal Saunders

I'm not so worried about our offense as I am our defense and rebounding. Today we played hard, gave it the maximum effort.

I'm not saying that the officers did not have a right to engage in self-defense, I wouldn't say that at all,

Jason Allen

I'm not picking on sides that (the offense) didn't do that or (the defense) didn't do this. Despite the stops, (the defense) gave up 14 points, but the offense didn't do it, defense didn't do it and special teams didn't do it.

I'm glad we played good defense. Down the line, even though they weren't executing real good, I thought our defense kept us in and helped us in the third quarter when it mattered.

I'm guessing at this point the defense will be our strength. They know what it takes to get the job done.

I'm embarrassed with our effort tonight. We played four games before tonight, and in every game we competed and dug in on defense and really played with some energy and enthusiasm. We just seemed like we were going through the motions tonight.

Brian Williams

I'm definitely excited to be here. I'm looking forward to contributing to the great defense here.This is a playoff team on the rise, and I want to help take it a step further.

I'm really proud of the way our defense played tonight. That's the way Sharks defense is supposed to play.

Gary Patterson

I'm really proud of the team and really proud of the way the defense played in the second half. We wanted an opportunity to finish high and jump into the top 10 in the final rankings. I feel like we've earned it.

Phil Davis

I'm really proud of our kids. Our defense was the key, really.Our linebackers were in the right spots and did what they were supposed to do.

Taylor Twellman

I just want to be a good target forward and help my teammates out on defense and get in front of the goal.

Joe Girardi

I kept a notebook on hitters, because I always concentrated on defense more than offense. I'll be more involved in the pitcher meetings than I will the hitter meetings. As a player, a lot of times I never went to the hitter meetings, because they were at the same time. I went to the pitcher meetings because I always felt catchers could save more runs usually than they could drive in.

I let these three do the talking. They've been the ones all season to get everybody fired up and ready to play. We knew we had to pick up our defense and make them work harder.

I liked his defense. We haven't had interior defense like that in a while.

I liked going to that diamond-and-1 because it saved our legs on defense a little bit. We're normally playing man-to-man and on this big court, I think it helped us offensively that way.

I imagine (Wesleyan) got a lot of yards passing. It was a bend- but-don't-break defense. We had a lot of red-zone stops and that was good stuff. I was really proud of our offense in the first half. We just couldn't get it cranked up in the second half and I think that was a real difference.

I love how the defense started the game for us.

I'm sure with the schedule they've played and everybody gunning for them, they've seen every junk defense possible. We're just going to stick to our style of play, which is pressing and running and trapping whenever possible.

I'm very excited about it, ... I've watched this defense ever since I got into the league in 2000. They strive to be great players. Great players want to play on great defenses.

Steve Sullivan

In Game Two it was a little too easy for their defense back there. They were able to make that first pass and set up plays too easily.

In his mind he is not a fugitive. He's been planning for years the defense of his trial.

I hadn't thrown that well the last few games but knew that I need to come up big today. There were some tough situations out there but I just tried to relax and breathe. And the defense was really incredible today and it helped me to relax knowing they would make the plays.

I had some highs and lows. You're going to have that in some games. Luckily, our defense stepped up and made some big plays and gave us some short fields.

Olaf Kolzig

I'm very impressed with the way Mo is progressing. He's been terrific. He's very poised with the puck and physical. Other than goaltender, defense is the toughest position. And it seems he's made the jump.