Famous Quotes & Sayings

He's a hitter. He's a great defensive catcher. And he also has a great relationship with the pitchers. The pitchers trust him, and that's important to us.

He's a guy who gets off the ball. They're looking more for a 3-4 type of defensive lineman.

Dwane Casey

He's a one-man wrecking crew. We spent the whole night trying to figure out the offensive sets around where he was on the play. He's a great player. He's one of the guys you have to think about for Defensive Player of the Year.

Gardiner's defensive pressure was unmatched. It was something we hadn't seen all year.

Gerard's smiling, laughing and really into what's happening here in the defensive game plan. He feels like it's all for one and one for all, and I can see that.

Brittany (Strohmeyer) hit some big free throws for us in overtime, and she made a big play on the defensive end as well. We played with a sense of urgency in the second half that we lacked in the first, and Heather (Harper) was really solid for us in the second half.

Every time I looked at the scoreboard even after a series of defensive stops we were always down by 10 points. Batavia just has so much depth, and they did an excellent job of keeping us at arm's length all night.

Mark Bradford

Bergh played a great defensive game, she's all over the place. Jessica makes sure everybody is in the right place.

Every defensive possession we value because that's an opportunity for them to score. At that point in the game, they were manhandling us on the defensive end and some people had to shore things up.

Actually, this was one of my better defensive games of the season.

Actually, that works out better for Curtis. He's a defensive guy. I had to make Curtis play offense. Curtis is a real physical kid. He wants to hit people. That's what he loves to do.

Something we're going to have to look at is the defensive system we run. We take a lot of risks on offense, and sometimes we don't get back on time.

One has speed and size, while the other one hits hard. Either one will find a place and be on the defensive unit.

Drake does a great job with its defensive system. But we were only 5-for-19 on three-pointers and I don't remember many of those being tough shots. Basically, they hit shots and we didn't.

Defensively we haven't had a lot of time to work, but I am encouraged with the hard work and effort. When we work on defensive skills, they have worked hard. We have better team chemistry; they all get along. Last year it was an individual thing.

Defensively, our kids played their hearts out. We had three defensive stands in our own territory. If they go in (for a score) on any of those, who knows what happens?

Defensive line-wise, we realize we struggled to stop the run the first game. The next two games, we did a pretty good job stopping the run. And all we have to do is turn that into some sacks and we'll be good to go.

Defensive linemen are hard to find. Paul runs well and plays hard. If he's got the work-ethic the little guys have, he's a can't miss.

Defensive letdowns and turnovers, our main problems all year, hurt us in the second half. We have to put together two good halves of basketball.

Mark Richt

Defensive guys can be, 'What the heck,' ... There was none of that. (From) coaches, there was none of that.

Gerry Fleming

Defensive breakdowns, turnovers, no intensity, not playing physical, not shooting the puck, not driving to the net, not skating, not working hard.

Della has been a huge presence for us on the defensive end. She's done a great job on the opposing team's point guard and has had some big scoring games.

Decision-making. And we had defensive lapses that gave them shots to get back in it.

The team played very well. They played good as a team and played great defense. Our defensive play has set the tone for our team all year.

The team played great. Everyone stepped up, everyone hit big shots, everyone made defensive plays. It was just a great, great team win.

Larry Brown

The thing that is difficult is that a lot of things that we have been working on, you don't see it getting better on the court: transition defense, defensive rebounding, dribble penetration,

Vince Young

I usually go up to our offensive and defensive lines right before the game and say, 'It starts up front with you guys.' Let's send them a message.

Michael Carrick

I wanted a striker and not a defensive midfielder. Carrick is a good player but we already had four good defensive midfielders.

Geno Auriemma

Sometimes you get it right and you have to kind of enjoy the moment. That last five minutes, the defensive stops that we made, the things that we accomplished, that's what good teams have to do.

Byron Scott

Terrible. I thought we started off terrible, no sense of urgency, no resistance on the defensive end. We played like the game didn't mean a thing. It's not everybody obviously, but as a team, collectively, we were awful. We looked more like we were scared than anything.

Ten minutes and we didn't get anything. That hurt. They did a good job of taking us out of our offense, and we did a good job of taking them out of theirs. It was an old-fashioned defensive struggle.

It was the tale of two halves. I was disappointed in how we played in the first half. We talked about having great defensive intensity and we didn't have it. I'm glad about how we (fixed it).

It was two good teams and one possession difference in the game. We could have used one more possession. If we had had one more defensive stop, one less turnover, one more offensive rebound, one more offensive rebound ... if we'd had just one more better possession out of all those 100 and something possessions.