Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rick Carlisle

Jack is such an important guy on our team. Our players view him as one of our leaders. You have to have your top players involved and playing at a high level. I thought tonight Jack understood the defensive end was going to be what was going to win the game for us.

Kelly Whelan's defensive play helped preserve the shutout.

Kelly is our defensive player and our offensive player. It was key because we switched her in the last 10 minutes.

Kelly has everything we look for in a defensive lineman. He has great natural use of hands, he has very good initial quickness and very good feet.

Mike Tice

Keith plays special teams, he plays linebacker, he plays rush defensive end. We have a 3-4 package that we named after him. He can rush the passer, he is doing a real good job playing coverage. ... Those are the kind of players that you need to win.

Just like last year, they've got some big kids on the line. It's going to be a tough game. Their defensive line is tough, and we're going to run the football.

Gregg Williams

Just occupying more than one person. He's the kind of person that can take on two people and still win. He has a presence in his pass rush. Sometimes, maybe your defensive tackles aren't maybe some of the solid pass rushers in the league. But we think he's one of the better pass-rushing defensive tackles around.

Charlie Villanueva

Just the speed of the game, and also on the defensive side as well. It's not the same as in college. A lot of things are different, but I'm learning. I'm like a sponge, I'm absorbing everything.

Josh Taylor

Josh comes in large and quick, he has excellent potential for the offensive and defensive line.

It all started on the defensive end. The effort was great.

Rick Carlisle

He wanted to give it a try, and he really gave us some defensive energy to start the third, which was big.

He didn't work out like a tight end would work out, but he worked out like a defensive or offensive lineman. He's an intriguing guy, a good guy to look at.

He could easily have gotten more time early, but he didn't understand our defensive philosophy. The one thing we say here is if you don't play defense, you don't play. You can always have an off night shooting, but you can always play defense.

Nick Saban

He didn't look like a defensive end doing that.

He can run. He can catch. He can block, ... He's our long-snapper and he plays as well on the defensive side as he does on offense.

Hector had a nice game at shortstop for us. I felt Eugene Julien was a little rusty out there, so I gave him the night off. Hector made some nice defensive plays in the field, got a big hit and drove in a big run.

He killed us. We had some breakdowns in our defensive rotations, which we usually don't do.

Hannah directs traffic and provides lots of cohesion for us on the defensive end. She has great vision seeing the entire field and knows the defensive scheme. She is a vocal leader and our players listen to her.

Groff kept making good pitches to get out of jams, and we made some good defensive plays to help her out. She's the kind of a pitcher who can get herself out of a jam with one pitch because she gets so many ground balls, and we're going to turn two when you hit one at somebody.

You have to finish the job. That is how you win. There is a real fine line between winning and losing and it is just about execution. Whether it is offensive execution or defensive execution or making a pitch in a key situation, that is the key to success. Young teams need to figure that out so they know what to put their focus on when the situation arises.

This was a great effort by our guys. One of the keys for us is our defensive intensity. When we play good defense, we're a pretty good team.

Brad Miller

He's a 1-on-1 defensive machine. It's hard to get a free look when Ron's guarding you.

He's all speed. A fast guy. Quick. A pass-rushing defensive tackle, which is rare.

James Smith

He's a solid defensive player at third base. He's a good offensive hitter with a little pop to his bat.

He's a very good at keeping the play (going). That's typical of the more defensive style he plays.

Mike Timlin

He's a tough little hitter. He's got great speed. He makes good contact. Watching him on the defensive side, watching him go get the ball, he's pretty awesome. He's got good speed there. He's got very good reactions to the ball.

His real thing is edge rusher. He's a 4-3 defensive end. He'll be an edge guy for us.

Chuck D.

I thought we were making all the hustle plays in that first half. I thought this game was won on our defensive end.

Doug Phillips

I think the key was that our defensive guys were fresh in the third and fourth quarters. That's because seven of them only go one way,

Bill Cowher

I think their defensive line played a lot harder than our offensive line did. I don't think (Ben) had a whole lot of time in that game, and at times when he did, he wasn't able to connect.

John Tortorella

I think the new rules have played with the minds of some players, especially our offensive people. We're going to instill the red line at times in the game. ... Our guys are going to play with it just to get them to come back (to the defensive zone). And we knew it was going to happen with these new rules. It's a process, especially for our offensive people.

Dana Altman

I thought he did everything he could tonight. Everyone will look at his 20 points, but I thought his defensive effort was pretty good.

Roy Williams

I thought defensively we've competed awfully, awfully hard. (The) first seventeen minutes of the first half, I think we had them at like twelve points and I think it was just hard work on the defensive end, I think we were limiting them to one shot.