Famous Quotes & Sayings

I know I always pride myself on defense because that's what wins championships.

I know I have to improve my offense - my jump shot and my moves in the post. I feel comfortable with where my defense is, but my scoring has to get better.

Derrick Brooks

In this game there are so many rules favoring the offense. To see a little defense being played is a good thing.

I just had an off night. The defense was keeping us in the game, and we just couldn't get anything going on offense. I take most of the responsibility for that.

I hope it's not a shootout, ... I hope we score a lot of points and our defense holds them to zero.

I hope, at some point, we're all going to understand the importance of defense and how good a team we can be if we play defense.

Osi Umenyiora

I haven't felt this excitement in here about any player since I've been here. It feels like he's the missing link as far as this defense goes.

I have to see where the defense and my linemen are, ... I have to set them up in the right place to make the right blocks.

I really feel like we're growing as a team and as a defense, and I want to be a part of it,

Tom Johnson

Hey, Maloney played pretty well. Their defense slowed us down for a while.

Will Allen

He's still a hard runner. He's still got it, but our defense is tough. It's hard to run on us, it's hard to pass on us. But Ricky, he ran hard. He's always going to run hard.

He stayed in tune and had a good thought process out there, and his defense was very good.

He's facing a lot of shots every game with a young defense in front of him.

He sets the standard of hard work, that hard-hat mentality the Spurs have, with his defense. He never gets the headlines or stories because he doesn't score a lot of points, but the Spurs would suffer without him.

Buck Showalter

He's just been tentative on defense with that leg.

Sam Cassell

How are you not going to get up to play in the Garden. I try to win and I took what the defense gave me. It's a team effort that's why we won the game tonight.

He's our Mexican version of Wash. He's a tireless worker who has the respect of all the guys, and he's got a very important job. Most of the Minor League kids just want to come in and swing the bat, and Juan has to teach them why defense is such a big part of our success.

He's real versatile. It's going to be hard to just shut somebody completely down that takes that many shots. I just have to play tough defense and stay with him the whole time.

He's really stepped up his game. He's shooting well. He's playing with confidence. And he's really stepped up his defense this year. He's a great kid. ... He's just a kid you want to recruit over and over.

He's really a smart kid that realized what he needed to do to get more minutes. Primarily he plays good help defense and is a solid kid on offense on the block.

Brad Jones

I don't really feel like I need to fill his shoes in that sense. I feel like he was a very, very great player that left here, but I think our defense will make up for it. I don't think there will be a hitch in our defense at all.

I don't know if we've ever had a game quite like this one. Even though we had scored a lot of points, our offense hadn't really been on the field and our defense had been on the field the whole time. And they did a great job of reversing the momentum.

E. O. Wilson

I don't know if we (the defense) have any expectations. We just want to go out there, play our defense, play hard and play sound football. I don't think there are expectations. That's for you guys (the media). That's not for us. We just go out there and do what we do.

John Foxe

I don't know if we ran out of gas. I'm not sure what the problem was. Their defense played tremendous. We knew we'd have our hands full with their offense.

I don't know if I was necessarily recruited to fit this defense. I think I was recruited more for my toughness and work ethic. I've been called the 'non-prototypical' defensive end for this defense. But the person who can really hone in on the techniques of this defense can play.

I don't know how many good shots they put up. I know they missed a lot of shots, but I don't know how many were forced or hurried, but I would say quite a few of them were. They were frustrated and pressure defense can do that to a team.

I didn't throw the puck hard at all. I was just trying to flip it out of the zone. I saw there was no defense there and I was just praying for the puck to stay in.

Jamie Dixon

I didn't think our defense was good early on, but they had something to do with that. We played well in the second half.

I didn't feel like we were doing a good job on defense in the first half. We let them have open shots.

I didn't think our defense responded well at all after all three turnovers in the first half,

I didn't think about that until after the game was over. Knowing Kamehameha, I knew at any point in the game they could come back, so I had to keep working hard and the defense got my back.

Mack Brown

It was really surreal when we were sitting in the fourth quarter and we were down by two scores, and you think you're going to win. You're playing a team that has won 34 straight games, and momentum is turning, and your defense is struggling. But we never thought we would lose the ballgame.

It was a very physical game, and you could see their defense was getting a little tired in the fourth quarter. A lot of 4-yard gains were turning into 10-yard gains.