Famous Quotes & Sayings

I though the defense did all right, but they got fatigued pretty early, ... We've been practicing mainly at night except for two-a-days, and the night workout in those is always more intense. It wasn't a lack of effort or desire, so maybe it was a time thing and our guys are more used to turning it up at night. But with this hot, muggy morning, they got tired in a hurry.

William Ford

I thought getting off to a good start was important. I felt our defense was pretty good and we limited them to one shot.

I thought Erin's defense was fantastic. She gave our staff and this program everything today.

I thought early, we let Hand get some good looks with the 3. But I thought as the game progressed, we were able to take away the 3. Our perimeter defense has been pretty solid all year.

I thought a three- or four-minute spurt would win this for us, and it didn't. Their defense wouldn't let us do that.

I thought actually we were playing pretty good defense but they were drilling shots. At the end of the day, that was a big deal.

I think you'll see a team that rebounds hard, plays defense hard and that's why he has been a really good coach. I think he's a great fit.

Dom Capers

I think you'll see a more explosive defense. And I think you'll see a defense that, if it stays healthy, gets better as the season goes along. Our defense has the potential to improve as the year goes on. They're excited to get out there and play.

John Anderson

I think the facility is a great match for this team. We have more speed in the outfield. I think our team, to be honest with you, is made to play defense in there this year.

I think the difference today was that we picked it up on defense in the second half. We got our transition game going and we got some open looks.

Richard Wright

I think the difference between our defense from last year and this year is that last year we had big, strong linemen, and this year our linemen are smaller, but we make up for it with our speed.

Arlen Specter

I think the Department of Defense owes the American people an explanation of what went on here,

Russ Wilcox

Lake Region played a great game. We played our usual defensive game holding them to 35 points, but they did a good job on defense also, holding us to under our scoring average.

It is simply impossible for us to massively increase the investment in defense capabilities,

I thought we did fairly well on defense and played a strong transition game. They have some tough girls and we did a good job shutting them down.

I thought we did a good job limiting the touches their post people got. We were giving up a lot of size, but we did a good job executing our defense and getting a hand in their shooters faces, too.

Craig Parker

I thought we did a good job especially rebounding out of the zone. Our interior defense was a little better and we're improving.

Hathaway, Schrader and Nelson took it to the basket. They also played good defense and really hustled.

Having Tyler starting in the field really gave us momentum early on. Isaac Coates did a nice job in goal all game. Our defense was strong enough to handle Bridgeport's offense.

Guys are accountable. They know what our identity is; they're hard-working and defense-minded. We want to be hard to play against.

Hard to win on the road when it's 33-to-9 at the line. Hard to win when you think you do a good job on defense and they end up with three free throws.

Her (Schmidt's) offense has never been enough to win games, but her defense has set the tone for what we needed to do at Southeast. It was man-to-man, pressure defense and the kids never tired.

Bobby Cox

He's a great outfielder. His defense is incredibly great.

Her name of the game is speed. Mary puts a lot of pressure on the defense because of her speed and we will score runs when she is on the bases.

Her hitting was her nemesis last year, but she still got to play good defense for us. She's gotten stronger, though, and she's been hitting in the No. 3 spot during the scrimmages. I'm hoping that she'll be a surprise with her bat.

Golden West has a good program and when you are playing good teams you have to play good defense and you need timely hitting. This was a good game for us to play, we'll learn from it.

For me, personally, it was fairly easy. My defense had the game of their lives.

Matt Williams

He's a really, really good hitter to all fields. Physically, he hits fastballs really, really well. He's an extremely hard worker. He's always working on his swing, and he's always working on his fielding abilities trying to make himself better. He works really hard just in everything he does, like with his rehab and everything -- with that he's already back and throwing the ball. Pretty soon he'll be able to play defense in a game, not just hit.

He seems to be a pretty good athlete. He's been playing on our scout team defense and is doing a good job. He sort of worked his way onto special teams.

John Beilein

His skill level, and my love for having big guys who can shoot, made the marriage work. He plays and shoots and passes the way I like our big guys to do it to make our offense and defense work.

Dwyane Wade

His will is unbelievable. You can't play better defense than Gary (Payton) had on him. He can just raise up and jump over you and shoot. You have to tip your hat to a guy like that.

Marcus Ginyard

He's going to make those shots. Even over great defense.

He's going to be the first defense witness.