Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeff Steele

Our defensive intensity in the second half is what did it for us.

Our defensive intensity gave us a lot of inside shots. We really just played extremely well.

Our defensive effort in the second and third quarters was outstanding. They had trouble getting away from it. And when we get stops, we are hard to stop.

Our defensive coordinator, Nick Mullen, called a great game.

Lindsey Hunter

As the season winds down, we have to establish that as our identity, because, going into the playoffs, that's the way games are going to be played. It's a defensive struggle every game, and every possession means a lot. We have to get back into the habit of stopping guys every night.

At the time we didn't put another linebacker in. We took one of the defensive linemen off the line, stood him up and went into the three-man front that way. We did it in obvious passing situations, long-yardage situations or at the end of the game when we were protecting a lead.

Dan McCarney

Dobbins can be much better than last year. At this time last year, we didn't know where Dobbins would play - whether it would be as a starter or a backup. We didn't desert him; we worked with him, and he ended up being defensive newcomer of year.

Dick's a whale of a guy. He's a great coach, a great defensive coach, and he's a better guy than he is a coach.

Devon really picked it up on the offensive end for us. It was a great defensive effort, holding a good team like that to 40 points.

Cornell is a very disciplined and strong defensive team. They're a team and a program that knows how to win.

Ken Green

The way we were defending, I knew we'd be around. It looked like it would be a defensive struggle.

This game should be a good opportunity for us to work on several things. We still have some work to do to become a 40-minute defensive team.

This defensive line is supposed to run free, and just swarm everybody.

They sent a lot of defensive looks at her. In the first half, she panicked. We just told her to be patient, to pass or fake and go in to score. That forces other teams to make decisions.

They were getting everything. We couldn't get any defensive stops. We couldn't finish them.

They were faster than us but we had good combination passing. I am very proud of our defensive effort.

This is a market that will not do what may be obvious. It's sentiment-led, rather than value-led. If we stabilize, people may try to cherry-pick in blue-chip and growth stocks, but if we head lower investors may get defensive again.

Hugh Johnson

This is a market that's become very, very defensive, ... One thing I noticed is a move back to the defensive side.

Brian Nelson

This group ranks up there with the top defensive teams I've had here.

They're such a good defensive team, they took us out of our game plan. I don't' know if the pressure got to us. Lucas Johnson kept us in it for a while, but we just didn't have enough people step up in the first half.

Muffet McGraw

They're still a very, very fundamentally sound, great defensive team. They're very well coached. They run good offense. They do a lot of good things. I think it's the same team they've had over the years, just great competitors and very, very intense.

Larry Bowa

They've been working really hard since the start of spring training. They're very into our defensive meetings.

They took us out of the game with some nice defensive plays. No doubt about it.

W. S. Gilbert

They (the Lady Red Devils) stayed with our defensive rules.

They said many inexperienced teenage drivers overcorrect. I paid the $200 for driver's education. They need to have defensive driving taught more than how to parallel park.

They're very quick and long. They picked up their defensive intensity, and we really didn't find a way to match that on offense.

Trent Johnson

They're very defensive minded. They're going to be well prepared and very physical.

They turned up the defensive pressure and it revealed a lack of skill on our part.

They struggled to score tonight, and part of that's us. We're a pretty good defensive team. Another part of it's that they struggle to score many nights.

They still felt they were skating well and could win games. We just had too many defensive lapses. We were giving up goals in bunches.

They put a lot of defensive pressure on you. They're up in your face and really get after you.

A lot of it is mystique. We're just playing on our reputation a lot of times. Everybody sees us as a defensive monster. They think we're lightning quick. But then they stand next to us and see we're not that way. It's perception. We probably get 8-10 in perception every time we step on the floor.

All of our guys can make those scrappy plays. We've come to expect the defensive effort because those guys just scrap. If you just watch the game you can gloss over Trey's hustling plays.