Defensive Quotes

You want to make something happen on defense, and for a guy who is managing a game or just kind of sits backs there and tries to pick you apart, it is a little frustrating. Defensively you want that one opportunity to make something happen. When you have a guy who plays smart like that, it makes it a little bit more difficult. - Michael Strahan

You want to invite the defensive line to come up... It buys time for the play to develop. - Paul Pinegar

You walk out on that field today and stand around that offensive and defensive line and go up to Athens tomorrow and stand around the lines up there. Take out the surroundings, and tell me if you see a difference. They may have a couple more than we do. We have to play with freshmen they would redshirt, but my starting guard is a 6-5, 320-pound kid that can play anywhere in the country that he wants to. My right guard is 6-5, 315 and could play in the lower half of Division I. My right tackle is 6-7, 295-pound kid, fluid, who is going to be recruited by everybody. Shoot, I don't know know if (Georgia has) one as good as him. - Bert Williams

You wait for somebody like that to mature. He's still not there to my satisfaction defensively 100 percent all of the time, but he's getting closer. - Ron Wilson

You turn on the film and the No. 1 player you're going to game-plan around is Brian Calhoun. He's the No. 1 player that we game-plan around (offensively). So, conversely, as a defensive coach, you're going to spend a lot of energy in trying to contain, throttle, and frustrate Calhoun, while forcing other players to beat you. If I'm coaching against us, the first thing I'm going to do is figure out a way to contain Brian because he can change a game, and change it fast. - Brian White

You talk about this defence, the defensive tackle position and what that means, adding another person to our rotation -- somebody who's really a different type physically than what we've had -- is really exciting to us. - Tony Dungy

You size up the situation and I knew they were going to pass, ... I was just rushing the quarterback as hard as I could. The defensive backs had good coverage and that helped. - Daniel White

You never know what a week off will do, but I thought we needed the extra time off. We came out with great focus and we were very in tune defensively. Our legs were fresher and that showed in our shooting. - Todd Lickliter

You need two good games and we have to play one more to go through. There's still 90 minutes to go. We need a good defensive performance. - Arsene Wenger

You lose players like [defensive tackle] Corey Simon, myself, and they're big blows. The running game - the defense didn't get that right until I was put back in there. I'm not saying I'm everything and I'm all that. I'm just saying, when you take away a good player, you're going to suffer some, especially if you don't have anybody to fill that void. - Jeremiah Trotter