Scottie Pippen Quotes

There's two sides to the game, and you have to do the ugly side as well. If you're getting beat, and you're conceding the goals that we're getting beaten by, then it's because you're not defending and shutting people down well enough.

You may have to change how you guard somebody because of how they play. But the mindset stays the same - making people uncomfortable, making them do what you want them to do instead them dictating on offense.

I like to get physical on defense. I like to get up on a guy as much as possible. I actually need to calm down, though.

I want to make sure the other point guard can't start his offense until 12 or 13 seconds. Then I've put my team in position to defend just one pick-and-roll and one pass.

The thing that's always struck me about Coach Marinelli's defenses is how fast and aggressive they play.

I'm a defensive-minded player.

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

Not all players want to play defense. You get in foul trouble, you're going to be on the bench.

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 there's pressure on the ball, you can go man-to-man on your striker; you've got the advantage because the ball pressure means it'll be a difficult pass to play.

The beginning of everything is our defensive organisation. The clean sheet is always the first objective that we have in the game. Always.

I just think I've got to be more aggressive at both ends of the floor. When I'm aggressive on the defensive end it really helps me on offense.

You don't have to commit a lot of fouls, especially if you are 1-0 down. If you are 1-0 down, then don't commit 10 fouls in the next ten minutes.

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

Playing an ultra-defensive side is very difficult.

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

It could be the best defender or the worst defender. I have to have the attitude that I don't think anyone is going to deter me from getting to the basket. Maybe help defense can come over and affect it, but not the first guy.

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.

Whoever I'm playing against, I go in and try to stop their best scorer and try to get myself going on the offensive end.

In my day, defenders played you with two hands and an elbow. You're not getting by a guy, especially if he has an elbow and a hand on you and is a strong defensive player.

I've always liked taking the ball out of defence and I will carry on doing that but at the end of the day I'm a defender, and that's what I want to be known as - a defender, getting in the blocks and the headers that people don't recognise I do, the dirty stuff that every defender should do and should be good at.

I feel the need to really get after a guy defensively and showing that.

I feel I am a total defender.

The confidence level that Steph is playing with now, obviously, you won't totally stop him. If I'm playing against him right now, I think I'd try to pick him up full court, get the ball out of his hands, try to be a little physical.

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