Building Quote by Rick Carlisle

I just want to be the best defensive player I can be and anything I can give us offensively is a bonus.

— DeAndre Jordan

If you are a good team, your offense is born on the defensive end.

— Don Meyer

To aspire and realistically have a chance to be a better defensive team, you've got to get better defensive players.

— Rick Carlisle

I think it's very important to have a good defensive team.

— Kolo Toure

Sometimes offensive players get turned into defensive players, which sometimes isn't a bad thing, but for me I need a chance to play more…

— Martin St. Louis

If you don't have a defense this league don't exist. So I feel like defensive players do need to kind of stand their ground…

— Bobby Wagner

You have good players offensively, you have good players defensively, but great players are the ones that can do both things well. That's my…

— Rodri

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…

— Rudy Gobert

Defense is the thing we can control and bring every night. But I want to be great on both ends.

— Rudy Gobert

Every defensive end who is going to be picked in the first round is going to be a good pick for whoever they're chosen…

— Justin Tuck

When you establish that you're a galactically successful offensive team, but below average defensively, that's not gonna win you a championship.

— Rick Carlisle

Part of having a great offensive staff is every week we look at different plays around the league and the collegiate ranks, and things…

— Doug Pederson