Famous Quotes & Sayings

After a tough loss Tuesday I was happy with our defensive intensity.

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.

They're a great defensive team. That's evident. They haven't done a lot offensively at times, but they don't give up much to their opponent's offense.

They're a great defensive team and we struggled in the second quarter. They didn't win 26 games by mistake.

They're a good defensive team. We had nothing in the half court.

They're one of the most solid defensive teams that we've seen. They're outside shooting is going to give us fits. I hope it doesn't, but I think it may give us fits.

They remind me a lot of our team last year quite honestly. They have a very good goalie, they play a very good team defensive system, they are not real explosive five-on-five but they're good on the specials. They're a real good team. Goals will be tough to come by.

Robert Pires

All our opponents are now playing the same way. They opt for a very defensive set-up with seven or eight players packed on their side of the pitch,

A big part of it is our defensive ends are pretty good. I'm not so sure they're not better than what they were last year because they are improved and the speed is better. It's going to do nothing but make (Hart) better and the other tackles better.

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.

A lot of things went our way in that game. There was a short span where we had two defensive touchdowns. The momentum we gained from that was a huge part of the game.

They played really hard. We played hard in spurts. It's the first time in a long time we got outplayed. We're not a great scoring team. When we don't have a defensive mind-set, we're in trouble.

Michael Vick

They played a great defensive scheme. They did some things that threw us off balance.

Michael Vick

They played a great defensive scheme, ... They did some things that threw us off-balance.

They got a lot of easy buckets in transition, either getting rebounds or steals. They just got a lot of run-outs, and we didn't get back and we didn't play Duke defense. We didn't play like our normal selves on the defensive end. That made a big difference in this game.

They go hand-in-hand... we haven't put up a good defensive and offensive game together.