Jim Boeheim Quotes

The best way to attack is to defend well.

I always try to go in there and stick to my base, which is the defensive end, and then just let the offense come to me.

You have to play defense, that's how you win.

You put a lot of pressure on your defenders to be able to hold the fort when you go forward.

It's good to be good at playing defence, but the best defence is a strong offence.

A lot of times getting double- or triple-teamed, like triangle-and-two, it just made me be more of an all-around player.

They say that the best form of defence is attack, but maybe I have to take a look at how I defend.

For me, it is very important to control a situation in defence. You can always score goals, but you have to add stability in the defence.

Teams that just play on one side of the floor are going to struggle against defenses that load up on that side.

Both offensively and defensively, the presence that I have is pretty profound.

I'm a defender first and foremost, and if I'm playing right centre-half, I am even more of a defender than the wing-backs.

I don't really focus on the guy that's defending me.

In the NBA they've taken away so much of the hand-checking and the physicality of how guys are able to guard you. So if you touch me, I'm gonna throw the ball toward the rim and get shots.

If you have a defensive concept, you're going to play defense. If you don't have a defensive concept, and you have an offensive concept, then you're going to play offense.

When you put pressure on the paint, you not only score but you force the whole defense to collapse and you can make easy plays to hit shooters.

I like playing size per position defensively.

As a winger, you want to get at defenders and make it hard for them. Instead of them going forwards, they have to defend against you.

As a defence, we have to strive for that clean sheet while also giving the attacking players the licence to go and create.

I was a guy that had a lot of tools and could do a lot of other things, but my main thing was controlling the defensive end of the court.

We're defenseless, I know we play defense, but we're defenseless when we're not looking at the guy who's blocking us or when the guy's come out and cut out our knees from underneath us.

I realize I have to continue to work on defense. I think a lot of people have to work on defense.

Offence doesn't concern me. It's easier for people to get layups than it is to get stops on defence or a block.

Liverpool are a team that is essentially very defensive; caution is at the heart of their game.

We want to put pressure on the defense.

Defending is easy. You just have to want to defend. It's not like defending is hard. It's just, like, more of an attitude.