Famous Quotes & Sayings

This was a much needed win. Our defense played a good game, we had a lot of scoring opportunity in the game, some that should have been called goals, but we will take this win.

This was a great way for us to start our division. We just have to maintain our good defense.

The play is designed to get all the way outside on the defense and outrun everybody.

The players never like hearing it, but I told them before the game and at the half, the reason we're where we are is because we have played defense and done an incredible job on the boards. I told them at the half that I didn't understand why we don't have 10 to 12 charges. They were going to the goal out of control, ducking their heads. And I said 'somebody step up,' and they did.

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Aaron Williams

When you play three games back-to-back, you lose some energy. When that happens, we just have to pick our D up. Defense is a real big key on our team. It's defense that puts points on the board.

When you play five or six sophomores offensively, they just have to grow up. That's the only way they can do it without making mistakes. Thankfully our defense played well enough tonight that we could come out on top.

Bill Belichick

There are 11 people out there playing defense. What makes a difference is how those 11 people play. That's what defense is about. It's about team defense. You are always trying to isolate it into one player, one situation or one thing, and it just doesn't work that way.

There are just too many times when we have one or two guys who take time off on defense. You can't have that. You've got to have all five guys playing defense on every possession.

We always want to play great defense and we've looked pretty good so far.

We always talk about packing our defense and our rebounding when we go on road trips. That's what we have to do.

We always start in some sort of press. Tonight our defense was relentless.

We always say our defense gets our offense going.

Susan Rice

When you look at a secretary of defense who has been as forceful and effective as Donald Rumsfeld, for good or for ill, he's a tough customer,

Mike Shanahan

When you do that, it makes it hard for your defense to play four quarters at the level that we expect them to play. We did not do a very good job on offense. I can not put my thumb on it, because there was some great effort, guys played hard, but you have to have eleven guys out there playing together. One guy here (and) one guy there just doesn't get it done.

Michelle Gardner

When you don't score, it doesn't matter how many runs you give up. We played very solid defense. We made a few mistakes here and there, but really, for the most part, our defense did a great job. Our hitting is going to come around. I'm very pleased with the effort the kids gave. They played hard.

Tim Hatten

We've got to get better on offense. We're a little better on defense from last year. We've got to make up ground on offense. We've dropped some balls.

We've got to get better offensively. We're not giving our defense a chance.

We've got to focus on our defense and rebounding.

We've got to come hard. We had them by 20 the last time we played, we just let them come back. We have to play defense good the whole game. We can't go soft of them, regardless of how much time is left in the game.

We've got to be more patient on offense if we don't score on the fast break. We want to make them play defense for an extended period of time.

We've got to be able to play good defense to win. If it comes down to where a kid's going to play, he might have to see more time on the defensive side.

We've just got to keep practicing hard before the game. Prepare well and just play good defense and rebound, and we'll win another championship.

We've been looking forward to this. After the (first time the two met), we figured they'd come in wanting us. So we were ready. We played great defense and everyone contributed. It was a pretty good game for us.

We've been living and dying with our defense and trying to get some shots. Our defense has got to be there for us, and it was really good today.

We need to start playing better defense and with more energy. We can't let teams stay in the game.

We need to start getting runs earlier in games. We need to jump on teams and take the pressure off our defense and pitching.

Albert Haynesworth

The defense you saw last week wasn't the real Tennessee defense, and hopefully we're not going to play like that anymore,

The defense won the game for us tonight. The defense was outstanding and I think that we are starting to come together as a team and we are helping each other out.

Jim Davies

The defense was very good tonight; we played an outstanding defensive game.

The defense was trying to get after the quarterback like we always do. We had a lot of guys rotate in like we always do. I think we did a good job up front.

The defense was there all day and we're thrilled.

The defense struggled in the first half, but regrouped at the half and finished the game strong.