Famous Quotes & Sayings

E. P. Thompson

We realize that we are definitely a target for them, and that puts our kids on the defensive a little bit, ... We're aware. We're alert. But we have goals of our own, and in order to meet them we have to find a way to win no matter who we're playing.

Lamar Odom

We've got to make every game a defensive game. ... When you play the worst defensive game of the year, you get beat. Point blank.

Monta Ellis

When I play my game, there's that, and more to come. Tonight it just seemed that I had it going in the first half and they put me back in the second half. It wasn't all on the offensive end. It was the defensive end as well. The little things.

Lindy Ruff

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

We did not have enough effort at the defensive end of the floor in the first half. We did a better job in the second half. We had to do a better job defensively. They were rotating and their kids were running hard through the screens. (Nolan) does a nice job running their sets.

We did not have any zip in our step all night and it really showed up on the defensive end of the floor.

We did not do well on the defensive end. We gave them a lot of uncontested three's. We just didn't defend.

Kenneth Bacon

There are some signs that in recent weeks Saddam Hussein has been concentrating more on defensive measures rather than offensive measures.

Ben Wallace

The only pressure I put up on myself is to go out there and rebound the basketball, make my presence felt on the defensive end, make plays.

We've been hitting a lot better than last year, but we had four errors (Tuesday) and that is what I can't stand. We'll make great defensive plays, then make a mistake. We just have to be consistent.

Jay Wright

We're a defensive team. We take pride in that. And we just couldn't stop them. ...I've never had that feeling, where you just couldn't stop somebody.

We're a defensive team. We're not gonna score a lot of points.

Eddie Jones

We're a defensive team. We have to be a defensive teams. The other teams that win games are teams that are in the top, defensively.

We're a defensive team. I think we can stop anybody.

Kevin Garnett

We're a big question mark. We have no real identity at this point. We show glimpses of being very, very good defensively. ... But I don't think you can stamp us as a defensive team or stamp us as a team with an identity right now.

We're a better defensive team when we play full-court pressure defense.

Graeme Smith

We?re 1-0 up in the series. We were forced into being defensive and getting through this game and that?s what we did.

Jimmy Smith

We ran the same offensive and defensive plays in the first six minutes as the rest of the game. We just started to play South Lenoir basketball. Tonight was just a good team effort. We showed a lot of heart tonight.

Arron Afflalo

We're a pretty dominant defensive team right now. It's not just one guy. It's a total team effort on defense.

Arron Afflalo

We're a pretty dominant defensive team right now.

We hit the mid-line a lot with Jared Kimmel up the middle and then we started hitting the rocket on the outside. We took advantage; the defensive ends were playing a little tight. We tried to get outside on them. We ran our rocket play - our quick sweep - and that really got us back into the game.

We had a few defensive lapses, but the kids found a way to hang in there and battle.

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 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.

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.