Defensive Success Quotes

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

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.

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

If you have an elite defense, that can be your third star, so to speak.

You can always look back on having a good defensive day, even if you didn't do anything offensively. You won the game and you contributed.

When you play a team with as much attacking power as Barcelona and you restrict them to one shot on target in the second leg, you are doing something right. Have the best football team gone through? Yes. Have the best organised team gone through? No.

I have three Defensive Players of the Year. Only one other player has done that. But being a defensive lineman, it's hard to control the game.

I think when you're a very good defensive team - it's very rare a team wins a championship when you're not a very good defensive team.

So I'd rather have a defense that's successful where everyone's comfortable in their positions.

I like every aspect of defense; I enjoy shutting down the offense.

For the longest time, it's always been Aaron Rodgers and the offense. It's nice to have a little notoriety on defense.

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.

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?

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.

In baseball, you can do something poorly and still get credit. A pitcher could throw a bad ball, the batter hit a screaming line drive, and an outfielder make a fantastic diving catch. Yet, when you look at historical databases, 80% of the time when a ball is struck with that trajectory and velocity, it is a hit.

Coach Marinelli's defense is incredible.

It's always great when a defense is able to create turnovers and score. That's something we missed last year. We'd get some turnovers, but we never scored points.

Top players now will get bonuses for winning competitions or reaching various stages of them, scoring goals, or keeping clean sheets, but most don't play football for the money, because it's not been in the game that long. They do it for the love of playing.

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