My mental approach is totally different. My coach predicated everything on defense. He always talked about defense, defense, defense. I took it to heart that if you play defense, you can take the heart from an offensive player.
Defense not only wins games; it's what gets you on the floor at every level you play at. Once you get to high school and get to college, if you don't play defense, you won't play.
I guess people looked at me in college, said I couldn't shoot or play defense. I proved them wrong.
We have to get better at that. All of the Stanley Cup winning teams throughout the past few seasons, when they needed to play defense, they did it. If you can play defense, that's when you know it's game over.
You need to love to play defense.
If we need women in our defense forces, we must not need much defense.
I need to be the best player I can, score and play defense.
As the name of the agency suggests, 'Department of Defense,' the defense refers to the United States of America - not the defense of South Korea, not the defense of Ukraine, not the defense of Syria or Germany.
You have more control of things if you play defense. And you can control how you play defense, too, with effort and preparation.
A lot of people say you can't make the league if you can't play defense, so I really play really good defense. That's something I really pride myself on.
If we play defense the way we're supposed to and we play defense the way we do here in practice, we should have no problems against most of the teams in the league, and other teams, it'll be a great fight.
We need to play tough defense and have a sound offense. But mostly, we have to outrebound the other team.
If you want team play, you must stress defense. Defense makes players unselfish.
It takes brains. It's not like a forward, where you can get away with scoring and not play defense. On defense you have to be thinking.
It's not always fun. It burns inside to play defense. But you have to keep working and eventually defense is something you get used to.
One thing you know about playoff competition is this: If you have a hot quarterback and your defense can take the ball away, you don't need to have a dominant defense anymore.