Defense is a definite part of the game, and a great part of defense is learning to play it without fouling.
You can't win championships without playing great defense.
Goals have never defined me as a player. What has defined me is my impact on the team. If that means passing or playing defense to win, I'll do it.
I am enjoying playing as a full back, and I would like to continue in this position.
I'm excited about getting the opportunity to show people that I can play defense.
When they have the lead, you don't want to fall into too predictable counts because they're playing with house money at that point. You want to try to be creative and keep them off-balance as much as you can.
Really what we've done is establish a tradition in Carolina of playing defense.
I grew up playing defense all the time with my older brothers and the older players.
I'm used to the golf course playing soft, so tomorrow I'm going to have to pay attention a little bit more.
Any time you get on the field, there's a possible chance of that happening. I think you're trying to make a play, and there is an inherent risk where you could get blindsided.
But as far as I'm concerned, I can still play defense.
Oh, if I played in the All-Star game, I'm playing defense - hard for the first quarter. And I want to get a couple of dunks, too, like I do in a regular game.
I do like playing strong safety.
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.
I love when people think it's going to be easy to guard me.
I think it's hard for someone to play short and then come back to second. It's not the same.
It's just always been a knack for me to play defense.
I like to score when I can, but if I can't do that, I like to do the other things - defense, blocking, rebounding.
I really wanted to step up my defense night in, night out. So that's my mindset, just playing defense and trying to be consistent with that.
