Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Cowher

We've all had heroes, and I know Jack Lambert was for me because I was a defensive guy.

Dennis Richardson

We are a hard working, defensive driven team. We were very competitive in all our matches this season.

We are a good defensive team and we are getting better. This is a team that hasn't played together for a long time and we are still trying to figure out who we are on offense. But we are getting there.

We are a defensive hockey team and we have a system that we are going to stick to and it has kept us in game all year; even the games we lose are only by one goal.

We struggled early, but the nice thing about it we rebounded in the third inning on great defensive play.

We strive to deny the other team any opportunities in the defensive third. We've taken pride in that this year and it's really paid off.

We're in a rhythm right now, especially at the defensive end. We're getting stops, and we're getting out and running. And we're taking good shots. That allows us to get back at the defensive end.

Josh Smith

We started hot, but couldn't maintain it. We got tired and couldn't sustain our defensive intensity. They wore us down and killed us on the glass in the second half.

We spotted them a good 10 (points) in the first quarter. We played a real nice second quarter, defensively. Unfortunately, we didn't duplicate that defensive effort the rest of the ballgame.

We spot serve and she is one of our top servers. She has been on varsity for three years now and has gotten better each season. She is also one of our top defensive players.

During an economic slowdown, one needs to be cautious, but I think it's equally important to not get sucked into the vortex of defensive thinking.

We have to go up there and have another defensive mindset and get the job done.

We have to force them to be one dimensional. We need to take away the run, put them in passing situations and then let our defensive line and secondary do what they do best. We've had a good pass rush, and we have a good secondary.

We have some depth on the defensive line. We just don't have any game experience.

We wanted to try to set the tone on the defensive end and really take it to Albany early. We felt like we wanted to establish our presence here at home and I thought we did a great job of that early on.

We were trying to make our defensive pressure so great to put pressure on them.

Dave Wannstedt

We'd like to do some things, but I don't think we've got a Jason Taylor (Dolphins defensive end) on our team. And (Weis) will be facing the same thing. ... There are things we know about each other and what we'd like to try to do. Can the players go out and execute it? We'll see.

We've been able to grind out this long season and make a few shots and get some defensive stops.

We're going to try and pick up (the defensive intensity) and see how they handle it. Maybe it will work, maybe it won't, but that's what we do.

We're going to start with the defensive end and let the other parts fall where they may. You can always give 100 percent on defense.

Ron Gardenhire

When we get men into scoring position or on base, it's like we go into defensive mode instead of offensive mode. I don't know how to get guys out of it.

What a great defensive stand. We knew they were going to spread us out there, but we executed down the stretch today.

John Whisenant

We got whipped. We were not active, alert, intense like we have been throughout the playoffs. Our defensive system only works with great intensity.

We felt like we gave this one away. The one thing about this group now is they're battling. They did a great job of doing that, but we didn't do the job on the defensive end.

We're going to keep doing what we've been doing. On the defensive side, we want to keep the score in the 40s and 50s.

Were just not playing well on the defensive or the offensive end right now. Sometimes you can get away with it if you're not playing well on one end, but we're not playing well on either end and it's getting us in trouble right now.

Hubie Brown

We're not a great defensive rebounding team. That's been our Achilles' heel, ... But we get out on the break, we run hard and we play good defense.

We let them hang around too long and they made the big plays to win. It was a great defensive game, but penalties and turnovers killed us.

We knew this game wasn't gonna be a blowout, so we went in at halftime and we said let's pick up the defensive pressure.

We knew they were a good shooting team. In the first half we didn't get a hand up and we gave them good looks. In the second half, the defensive intensity picked up.

We made a nice defensive stand in the second half. They stepped it up and got it done, which was very exciting considering we have 11 new starters on that side of the ball.

We made a few defensive adjustments and settled down after we got our first touchdown.

Lindy Ruff

This was as good a game as I've seen us put together from an offensive standpoint and defensive standpoint.