St. John’s was tall and they had a strong attack and a great defense.

It’s no hidden secret. It’s no code you have to break. You have to have solid defense, you have to have good pitching and timely hitting.

Defensively, we were very pleased with the way we played. Our defense is very athletic and we have great pursuit to the ball.

If guys run hard, they aren’t intimidated of a defense. You’d think a freshman would be scared. ‘¦ You can tell a guy who is scared. He’ll tip-toe and try to make moves. I started...

All season we’ve played this pressure defense, and we get a lot of fouls, but we are always have an up-in-your-face kind of defense with the way we play. It’s just scrappy and defense wins...

Burns has mounted a pretty strong defense of himself, but according to a poll released last week, voters don’t seem to be buying it.

For every other one of those where the offense gets to keep the ball, the defense gets the ball even without a jump. People forget about that.

Coach Bennett always focused on defense and a lot of man-to-man defense. It’s what I grew up playing and what I like to teach to my teams. If the truth be known, we probably don’t...

The national defense is one of the cardinal duties of a statesman

He played a tremendous defensive game. His defense and leadership have been tremendous this season.

I was pleased with the way our kids kept playing defense. I’m proud of the way our kids played all four quarters.

We had two solid pitching performances, good defense, and timely hits with runners in scoring position. I was proud of our guys the first game, when we were down four and just chipped away and...

We didn’t get back on defense and they got a lot of baskets off the transition or we put them at the foul line.

We have become a pretty good defensive team. The kids are committed to good team defense. We were concerned about Centralia’s athletic ability, but we played sound defense.

She plays post on offense and guards point guards on defense. That’s a rare breed. She leads by example and heart. If I asked her to run through the wall, she’d ask me at what...

Troops are there to provide humanitarian support. There is no reason the Self Defense Forces should withdraw from Iraq. We will do our utmost for those people to be released unharmed.

Hey, we held them to 37-percent shooting — that’s great defense. You can say we didn’t defend the 3, but about four were with 1 second, 2 seconds, left on the shot clock, guys on...

We . . . stopped running back on defense.

We thought we got our defense under us in the first half and kind of set the tone for the rest of the game. We had a little lull defensively in the third quarter, but...

All year, we’ve been a fourth-quarter team. We stiffened up our defense, and it seems every game somebody hits a big shot.

Our lives consist of a series of internal battles, deep within us, where weapons don’t exist and technology is unable to create devices that better the best of yesterday. Our knowledge is our only defense;...

There’s no excuse for skimping on national defense when the country is at war.

Intensity-seeking is an enslavement of our own perpetuation. When we step out of the delirium of always seeking someone new, and meet the same old sad and lonely child within, our healing journey begins. Exhausting...

We’re playing defense a lot better. We’re taking pride in guarding the ball. We’re letting everybody realize that we’re a team to be reckoned with. And we’re coming out ready to play.

Their guards are just so unbelievably quick. On defense they slap down a lot and get steals, and they pressure the ball a lot and make it hard to get into your offense.

All around we did well, but today our defense was good. When we’re playing good defense we’re a tough team to beat.

We played great defense,

I understand why he can do both (offense and defense) because he’s an amazing athlete. He’s agile, with great feet and great quickness.

We just didn’t play defense consistently. We started shooting well when we got some stops. They were making their shots, and we weren’t stopping them. We had some problems getting back on defense.

We’ve been scoring points; that’s not our problem. Our defense has left us. The way you play defense is with hustle and heart, and I hope we get that back.

As poorly as we played offensively, our defense held them to 44 points. I can’t ask for more than that on defense.

He’s going to be the first defense witness.

(At halftime), we talked to the forwards about pressuring the defense. We wanted to make things hard on their defense.

They came out and played great defense, … But the thing I liked was, for a while there, they weren’t scoring either. I was happy with the way we played defense while we were struggling.

I rely on our defense. They made the plays today and that’s huge for me because I need those guys to be successful. Guys are going to put it in play off me and I...

I was fine with how we ran our offense, and I was fine with how we played defense. We turned it over a few more than our average. Tennessee is good at making you do...

Megan Nelson was in a new position (libero) and made some stellar plays on defense.

Penn State is building their team off their defense and you saw it today. They got two big turnovers and kept us in check.

Some nights the shots just don’t fall. When that happens you just have to play good defense and kind of grind out the win.

Last year when it came to the playoffs, … we got through with our defense alone.

The defense had another nice game.

This was a true, total team effort. We have been excelling in short passes from the defense to midfield to offense. We were more patient with our decision to finish. Rachel Wright did a great...

The way our team played is through our defense.

I’d say we turned the ball over more than we needed to, but I thought our defense was outstanding.

Commonly they must use their feet for defense whose only weapon is their tongue.

Defense won the game for us. We had an incredible amount of intensity on defense against a good team. This was a huge win for us.

Standing on the defensive indicates insufficient strength; attacking, a superabundance of strength.

There were phases of the game that I would like to forget. We have to play defense and throw strikes. But I’m happy with the way some of the girls hit. Annie’s been doing a...

Pyotr was the arcane hero, complete with buff body that you secretly whacked off to as a boy. And suddenly he turned and stared straight at him, some carnal fire burning in his eyes now....

Our defense was good. Calvary plays a tough schedule this year and they lost a lot of seniors from last year.