Famous Quotes & Sayings

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 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.

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.

We're still trading on the defensive and seeing more selling. As it appears, this second-quarter slowdown could be a mirage.

We've turned around our defensive play and our goaltending has improved with that. They go hand in hand. After some shoddy play early in the season, we've improved that (defensive) area.

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 see ourselves as a good defensive team. We were getting after them for a while. We couldn't get any shots to fall or we would've expanded it even more. Defensively, we feel we can guard people.

We seemed to be missing a step all night. We didn't have the defensive intensity we needed (tonight).

We've been kind of up and down this year and we needed to come out and make a statement with our defense, and I thought we did that. (We) just didn't give them anything easy. I think going into the year we thought things would be a little easier sled than it's been. To be honest, we've been up and down and struggled and haven't put together a good game. I thought today we put together four good defensive quarters. This was a start for us.

We need to have a good defensive effort. I am hoping that we can keep it a real competitive game and play well defensively.

We need to focus on the things we can control. We know we're going to miss shots, but we have to rebound and we have to get defensive stops, and we just didn't do that tonight.

The defensive line was just flying, though they're making all the plays,

(The defensive line) was a strength for us going into the season, now it's a real question mark. Guys (like Padilla) are going to have to step up and play.

The defensive line and the linebackers are looking real good right now.

The defensive kids, they were smacking; they were just hitting. They all played with a lot of heart. They gave us great field position, and we couldn't do anything with it.

The defensive end wasn't very good and our offensive execution wasn't very good. This is the first time that we've had a team shoot more free throws than we have for a long time. That's terrible, when you give up 31 (free-throw attempts).

We were flying around on the defensive end, which gets us out in transition, where we excel.

Ed McClanahan

We were down two (points) late in the game and we were right in it, but we just couldn't get over the hump and we couldn't seem to get any defensive stops in the fourth quarter.