Rudy Gobert Quotes

I think when you're a very good defensive team you give yourself a chance every night, on the road, at home, it's a big factor and something to build on.

The difference between a good defensive team and a bad defensive team is as little as three possessions

It's important for us, if we're going to be a good team, to be a good defensive team in the fourth quarter.

If you commit to the defensive end of the floor, you're going to have a chance to win every night. And if you're a great defensive team, you're going to go to the playoffs.

The most overrated thing is that you're a good defensive team because of your coaching. No. You're a good defensive team because you care and because it's important to you.

They scored 26 points in three quarters. That's solid defense.

I think the Pistons have such a well rounded team, which is why they're so successful. All you have to do is look at the stats defensively and at their rebounding and scoring.

Young quarterbacks do well because they have a great defense.

I don't think a coach becomes the right coach until he wins a championship.

What counts aren't the number of double plays, but the ones you should have had and missed.

We're trying to be that franchise that year-in and year-out is competing for a championship.

I thought we were aggressive across the board defensively, and you could just see it grow. As the game went along, you could see the confidence grow. It showed in the fourth quarter.

We're not hitting on all cylinders, defensively. When we're playing good, I'll let you know.

Every year you suit up, you play for a championship. Some years, some teams... it was very few times I think I played on that realistically had a chance.

I think that realistically we can shoot for the title this year. If we stay healthy and be persistent throughout the season, I think we have good chance to go all the way.

Defensively, from a team standpoint, I didn't feel I played very well. Very rarely was I satisfied with how I played.

Go back through football, and you will see that the team with the best defense wins.

When we had a great defense at Tampa Bay, we always measured our defenses against the best quarterbacks.

That's the great thing about the NFL: A team can get hot and win a championship.

I want to have a lot to do with winning a championship or bringing a championship back to the city of Philadelphia.

Knowing the opportunity to win a championship here in Chicago, right now, that's the main motivation for me.

For the life of me, I'll never understand why the teams that have the best defences get criticised. Shouldn't clean sheets be a badge of honour for defenders and goalkeepers?

A good season for me is going to the playoffs and making a run for the Super Bowl and having a good record.

We want to be in playoffs, we want to fight for a title.

Really what we've done is establish a tradition in Carolina of playing defense.