The backbone of our nation’s domestic defense against terrorist attacks will continue to be the men and women in local law enforcement and emergency services.

When your defense falls, sometimes your offense can be part of the problem. We were taking some questionable shots that were leading to easy transition baskets on their end.

We owned them up front, both on offense and defense. We thought, from watching film on them, that we could dominate on the line so our game plan was to run the ball.

I think we saw poor defense, poor rebounding, not-great shooting and not-great passing and those aren’t … add them all up together, it’s not a good recipe at all. It’s one of those recipes you...

We did a lot of good things tonight with the exception of four or five minutes with our defense breaking down. Other than that we had 40 plus minutes of pretty solid defense. We moved...

This was the best game we have played this season. You can’t say enough about our defense. They did a great job just controlling the game today.

It could come down to how our offense plays against their defense. Who knows? You just don’t know. It could easily be something else.

But we have to make plays and score on defense. We know that, and we just didn`t do it today.

Eugene should help solidify our defense and help create some aggressiveness at that end of the field. Scott and Jon bring some experience to the defense. Scott is a very hard worker, and all the...

I saw him helping us out a lot on special teams and on the defense. He’s a playmaker. Unfortunately, whatever happened, we’re there for him.

Both teams wanted to do some things with their defense, I think that’s clear. And everybody is going to want to show they did the right thing.

Defense is how we’ve won games all year long. We had to tighten the pressure in the second half.

I was so impressed with our defense. I don’t think we ever played it harder or better.

Mercer’s defense had something to do with that. We had been shooting well. They forced us to a perimeter game and clogged up the lane.

I don’t think that Kansas is susceptible to anything on defense and we’ve got to improve offensively. Florida is a good team and they did a good job against us, but we can’t continue to...

Our defense stepped up in the second half and did an outstanding job,

We feel it is essential to the President’s defense that we be able to call our own witnesses and present our own arguments to address these important questions.

All the yellow cards put our defense under pressure. They were afraid of being taken out of the game.

This line of defense does come with a price.

Defense lawyers have said they will boycott the next court hearing scheduled for November 28. The High Tribunal is the only one able to rule on this, and is free to appoint other lawyers or...

It was all there (yesterday). We got pitching, defense and timely hitting. So far we’ve only gotten two out of three.

I didn’t think our defense responded well at all after all three turnovers in the first half,

They have a good defense, we have a good defense. Baltimore is known for their defense. They pride themselves on stopping the run. They pride themselves on not giving up points.

The defense is solid, and it’s more athletic and faster.

One thing we have this year is flexibility. We’ll be able to move players around. We’ll start with the defense we have back, and if we have to move people around, then we will.

There are spiritual laws at work that most people know nothing about. So when others hurt us, our tendency is to strike back because we assume that we must defend ourselves, defend our name, our...

He has gotten better at defense, and his shooting has improved. If any one player won the game for us, it was him.

Skyline played great defense. They were very physical with us and we just couldn’t get the ball to go in.

People really don’t understand how good we are. But that’s OK. Defense is not a glamorous spot.

We played great team defense and Cammie had a great game but we struggled with taking care of the ball.

I threw strikes and was able to go late in the game. And the defense was outstanding.

Defense is the base of what we try to do. We knew we would have to do that to win a game on the road like this.

the best line of defense is on the ground … and once a dangerous person is on board, it’s already a defeat in itself.

We’ve been swinging it decent, but we haven’t had good defense and pitching. We kind of reversed it today.

I’d prefer you accuse my son, so he can defend his innocence rather than prolong unnecessary guilt.” (Spoken by Bracke, told by Eric)

We had solid full-court defense.

We had good life from start to finish, and we played very good defense with the exception of a handful of possessions. That allowed us to get out and get our running game going, and...

Defense and rebounding win championships. We can beat people lots of different ways, but … it’s difficult when you’re not getting any stops.

We just keep on applying pressure no matter how hard they play defense. They were doubling down on me and Derek. We kept applying pressure and they got tired and we wore them out.

They play good defense and do a good job of defending what we want to do. Granted, we had open shots and we’ll need to shoot the ball better than we did tonight if we...

We played a sloppy first quarter and allowed some easy baskets. In the second quarter we tightened up our defense and didn’t allow them to score until late in the quarter.

Once it got down to it and we realized we were in this ball game, our defense got so much tighter. We wanted it so much.

[He knows how to dramatize his subject matter.] The faculty retaining ownership is the last bulwark of defense of the universities as they exist, … It’s high noon.

After evaluating our defense, I felt like it was in the best interest of our football program to make a change at defensive coordinator. I think Carl is an outstanding person and an excellent coach,...

The hard part about one being tough yet meek is the illusion of being a punching bag.

He has basically unhittable stuff. But he helps himself with the way he plays defense. He gets off the mound quickly and covers a lot of ground.

Another sound defensive game for us, and that’s been our key. If we play sound defense and back up our pitchers then we’re coming out on top.

We need everything from her; we need a lot of scoring, a lot of rebounding, defense. She has to find a way. We need everything.

Scot is a tremendous player. I look forward to him anchoring our defense on what I hope will be a very strong team in 2006.

We’ve been playing at a high level on defense all year. I thought our linemen did a good job of putting pressure on their quarterback and kept the big plays to a minimum.