Famous Quotes & Sayings

It was a very exciting offensive game, ... Hopefully it won't get like that this year. I think our defense will be able to hold them back. If it does get into a shootout, we'll just have to step up to the plate as an offense.

It was a really good game and Taft has a good team. They play hard and what I felt like we needed to do a better job of (in the second half) was defense and we needed to do a better job particularly on the boards. Playing better defensively was what we talked about at halftime. And I thought we did. Our offense starts on defense. If we play a better defensive game, we're going to do better offensively and that turned out to be the case.

It was a well played game. We played great defense in the second half, but we just couldn't get very many attacks.

It was a well-played game. We played good defense and Shawn (Smith) pitched well again.

It was a very sluggish game - a whole lot of whistles and it never got into a flow. We won the game with our defense tonight. Our perimeter defense was excellent.

It was a rough game. They have good athletes, they are physical. We had our hands full, no question about it. But our defense won this game.

It was an all-around good effort by our offense and defense tonight,

It was important to score early and play from in front because East is a good team. But defense was more important than offense tonight. Offense sells tickets; defense wins games.

Tim Walton

It's awesome, and we really have three, but you don't know it yet. When Brooke Johnson gets on base, she's fast. ...When you have speed, you make the defense do things they don't want to do.

It?s a big win because we knew we had to win with defense and good possessions. We set the game plan and the kids took it and went with it.

It's a defense that gives teams a pretty hard time. But it's more of the mentality that we try to sell to the kids: This is how we will win, playing good defense.

I told him not to get down on himself when things aren't going well at the plate. Learning to separate offense from defense is the hard part of the learning curve.

I told our guys that I was pleased at how they bounced back. The defense didn't have as much pressure on them this game because our pitching really dominated.

I told our girls that defense wins championships. If we could lock them down in the half-court set and make some free throws, I knew we'd be fine.

Dwight Freeney

It's an ongoing transition to become the defense we want to be. We're nowhere near where we need to be.

It was a battle. Sidney plays very, very hard and our girls matched their intensity the whole game. Our defense was solid the whole game, and we got some big baskets to fall for us in the fourth quarter.

Jim Haslett

It was poor run defense the first half, ... We are going to find some guys who want to do it. We will find them and they will be the people who are going to play.

It was part defense and probably them missing shots they couldn't make.

It's what we've been looking for since Vanderbilt, basically. I think our defense played so well that we weren't giving up any of the open shots.

It's very frustrating. It's really embarrassing. This is professional football, not high school football. Even in high school, they score a lot of points. We need to score a lot of touchdowns. The defense is holding us in games. We need to hold up our end of the bargain.

It's very frustrating. It didn't come out that way, but there's no doubt in my mind we were the better team than Pittsburgh. The defense played great. They gave us good field position and we just missed our opportunities. Whether it was penalties or whatever, we just didn't execute right. It was nothing Pittsburgh did. We just killed ourselves.

It's way, way, way too early to talk about things like that. I've never been on a team where it got like that. We're all in it together here. And we're not playing perfect football on defense anyway.

Scott Erickson

It's wasn't a great game, but we want to make sure we get something positive out of the experience. We got to work on some different things with our offense and got them out by halftime, our defense got three quarters and a lot of our younger kids saw some action.

Steve Francis

It took him 30 shots to get 37 points. I don't think the defense was that bad, but he definitely made some tough shots.

It was good to see our offense finally get on track. Our special teams made some big plays, and our defense is still playing solid.

It was good to go out and get two wins. We had good defense and great pitching. We need to put some more hits together to make more things happen.

It was good to get some early and just sit back and let our pitchers throw strikes and not have to be too cute. Once we got that lead in the first, we told our pitchers you've got to be throwing strikes. No free passes, let our defense do the work. We only want to throw strikes, no walks at all.

Tommy Tuberville

They couldn't get anything going on offense, but their defense gave us a fit.

They come out and played very good defense and made it hard for us to get catches. There post defense was a lot better then it was the last time we played them and that was the huge difference in the game.

The two positive things from this game were that we played good defense and be rebounded well.

The two keys tonight were Maggie and Tristan, and Tiffany's defense on double-zero.

The turning point was on defense, where we gave up 23 points in the first half, and 19 in the third quarter.

The varsity returns eight starters on defense and seven on offense.