Famous Quotes & Sayings

Those are kind of defensive stocks, with fairly inelastic demand. In good times and bad, you're going to use those types of products.

Tyler did an unbelievable job. He shut down their leading scorer; he's just a defensive wiz.

We couldn't get a stop or a defensive rebound from about the three-and-a-half-to-four-minute mark down, and that's where we lost the game.

J. Taylor

We drew up a plan and our guys really pulled it off, ... I am really proud of them. We did a great job playing our defensive roles. We had great opportunities on set pieces. In a tight game like this, that's how you have to score a goal. This was a great team effort.

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.

We played extra hard, but our defensive pressure wasn't good enough. I think they'll be ready by the tournament. They'll be a sleeper and sneak in on somebody least expecting it.

Aaron Gray

Other teams are keying in on him, setting whole defensive strategies around him. That's presenting opportunities for other people to step up. It's amazing. It seems like every game, it's someone different.

R.J. is a good shooter, and it was a good game for him to come in. He gave us some size on the defensive end and some energy.

I think I handled my job on the defensive end, and rebounds also. That's my game. I generate every type of emotion from my defense, and I made a point to do that today.

I think he's qualified. He's a great guy. Just being on the defensive side and how he comes down and adapts to the players and messes around with them and jokes around with them, I think he'll be a great coach.

I think he's one of the better defensive forwards in the league. He's just so active.

I think he's one of the better defensive forwards in the league because he's so active. When you don't expect it, he's all over the place.

We should have scored many more goals. If you can't score, you can't win. I was also disappointed with the defensive work of my side. We need to be better in the next matches.

Jason Terry

We're disappointed in our defensive effort. We gave up 50-some percent (53.2) shooting. I guess that's first-game jitters.

Ron Zook

Vince has done everything I thought he would do in learning our package. He's spent time with the defensive line and linebackers, and I help a lot in the secondary. We've made great improvement on defense, which we should.

Pete Wilson

Washington picked up their defensive intensity in the fourth quarter. They forced us into some turnovers and we missed a few free throws and that helped them get back into the game.

We did a good job contesting all their shots. And we did a good job reading their tendencies. When they scored, we had defensive mistakes.

We didn't play as well as we have in the last few games. We didn't get a very good defensive effort tonight.

We had some defensive mix-ups, and they scored goals on us. We played a much better game than the last time we played them.

We had some defensive breakdowns. We had some guys that were loose in front of the net, and you can't have that.

We had some defensive breakdowns. Our point guard didn't get back defensively after we missed a shot a few times. I don't have an explanation for that. We're young right now and we make mistakes.

We had pitching and defensive breakdowns, but I?m proud of the way we battled back.

We went over our defensive schemes from last game and we'll try to take away some things.

We wanted a defensive focus and wanted to get back and stop the ball. They like to penetrate into the lane, and I was just trying to get something going on defense.

We limited SIUE to just one shot on the defensive end for the most part, and I thought we did a very good job of keeping them off the boards. I told our players we needed to keep SIUE from getting offensive rebounds, and we did that.

We like to think of ourselves as a pretty good defensive team. But there was a premium put on a every possession in a game like this and we had too many ineffective possessions when each one means so much.

Julian Peterson

The last five, six years, we've been pretty much drafting defensive players to run with the Rams offense, ... We match up very well. We're not really threatened by their skill positions.

All the girls played well. We had a real strong defensive game today.

The mark of this team this year is we just find a way. Whoever is hot or what ever defensive stop we need, it's happened so far.

Marlin Jackson

Any time you have guys out there flying around, hitting guys and getting to the ball, that intimidates the other team and gives us energy on the defensive side of the ball.

Any time you play Southern Huntingdon its going to be a physical, defensive game. I have all the respect for Southern Huntingdon and their program. Winning here is a big win for us heading into the playoffs.

That's always been the nature of the teams in the league. They've earned it, every one of those teams have earned any rankings they might have, because those are three very good defensive football teams.

He was talking in the huddle, and it was contagious. We talked more on the defensive end than we have in a long time.