Top 60 Rasheed Wallace Quotes

I already accepted that I can’t jump no more. I’m not as fast as I used to be. I accepted that already. That’s where you become more smart, make that first step or two before that quick player can get there. I gotta make this jump shot, so I’ll give a pump fake because I know that he can jump higher than me.

As long as the people in Flint need our help, we’re going to be here. And our hands-on impact is needed to uplift the morale and bring people’s spirits up.

I came up with my natural logo and ya know, just dealing with Nike I was like can y’all put my logo on the shoes and, you know. At that time I think other guys had logos or specific names on the shoe. So they was like yeah – let’s rock and roll.

Everyone in their career is going to go through a slump, but the thing is how you react to it. You’re either going to talk about it or you’re going to try to shoot your way out of it and I’m going to try to shoot my way out of it.

Ain’t no worst part about retiring! Believe me.

Offence doesn’t concern me. It’s easier for people to get layups than it is to get stops on defence or a block.

There’s times where I could take all the shots every time I touch the ball, but that’s not me. I just play a team game and just take open shots.

I just go out there and ‘D’ up. Everybody can make a layup, but everybody can’t play ‘D.’ Just winning, that’s all that matters, that’s the bottom line. Get a win.

I like Josh Hart. I’ve liked him since ‘Nova.

OK, my funniest tech I ever got in the NBA was for looking at a ref.

I would rather be here in the Philly Hall of Fame than the NBA Hall of Fame.

If I feel as though myself or my teammates have been dealt a wrong hand, I’m going to let it be known.

As long as I can look my family in the face every day, and they know what type of person I am, I’m cool.

Flopping shouldn’t get you nowhere.

A shooter takes shots, a shotter makes shots.

If you’ve got one guy you know is going to get that ball in crunch time, it’s easier to defend him. But if you have five guys who can get that ball in crunch time, it’s harder.

When I was in my heyday, of course I had those who hated me. They were supposed to hate the opposition. But it’s good, though. It feels good.

People know I’m Philly straight up and down.

As long as somebody ‘CTC,’ at the end of the day I’m with them. For all you that don’t know what CTC means, that’s ‘Cut The Check.’

I’ve always had the media going against me every year.

Every kid likes to be read to, or just even have an adult play with them, no matter if it’s little girls with a tea party or boys playing in the dirt, it’s all part of being a kid. It’s something we all went through.

I have this particular shoe with blood stains, marked all up sitting in my office. I always look at it everyday.

Real ballers don’t golf.

I only know one speed.

The only people I care about are my wife and kids, my mom and brother, close friends to the family. Anybody outside my circle, I could care less.

Some of the technicals I deserved. Cussing at the officials or throwing something. But some of them I didn’t deserve.

That’s what I hang my hat on, is defence.

I just play an overall game.

It doesn’t have to take a Portland Trail Blazer or a professional basketball player to do good things in the community. You can work at a bank or work at a 7-Eleven.

A wise man knows when to go ‘head and back off so you gotta pick and choose your fights. I know how to pick and choose.

When I got interested in football, nobody was cheering for Kansas City. Kansas City was trash. I said, ‘That’s my team.’ Then what happens? We get Joe Montana and Marcus Allen.

I love Air Force Ones. That’s the shoe I grew up with in Philadelphia. My older brothers got me wearing them and I just stuck with them. Everyone in the neighborhood used to wear them. It’s retro. It’s tradition. That’s me, old school.

You might get fouled and have a no-call, but let’s still go out and hoop. Just beat them up the other way, and that’s with the scoreboard.

I lived across the street from my elementary school, and in the schoolyard we could always go play there and know we were safe.

I keep going back to Flint for one reason: the people. They still have hope. They just need to know that there are other people who still care about them.

It’s for a different circumstance when you’re talking about playing for money and playing for heart.

Life ain’t fair, period.

I hung out in Northeast Portland, I hung out in Beaverton. I knew a lot of people on every demographic. For me out there, I loved my time out there.

To me it seemed in college ball, guys are more hungry.

There’s a lot of bad habits a lot of guys have now in the NBA and in college, so there’s only one way to get them started right and that’s to go back to the roots.

I’m not the type of player to let the 3s get me down: ‘Oh, I’m missing a couple of 3s. I don’t want to do this no more.’ No, I’m out there playing basketball, and I’m not going to let that get me down.

When the ball don’t lie, you can look at it as, OK, if I put that hard work in with shooting, what’s going to happen? The ball is going to go in more. If I’m doing a lot of hard work, in the gym, in the weight room, I’m putting that hard work in – then throughout your career, that ball is not going to lie.

If I retire from this league and I haven’t won at least one championship, I’ll feel like all my years in the league would be a failure.

If a person doesn’t like me or doesn’t like my game, OK, that’s how they feel. Can’t be upset with it.

Personally, it doesn’t matter to me if I had the worst career stats in N.B.A. history as long as I got my ‘ships. The ‘ships, it shuts everything up.

There’s two facets of this game. You know, if I’m not making shots, OK, then I have to do something on defense. So if I’m missing shots or making shots, it doesn’t affect my overall game.

Ball don’t lie!

To me it seemed in college ball, guys are more hungry. It’s for a different circumstance when you’re talking about playing for money and playing for heart. Not saying that guys in the NBA don’t play for heart, but once you get that money, you’re under a different mindset.

Being an opponent playing in Boston over the years, you always see guys in the stands who played for the Celtics. It’s a mystique. It’s cool.

My attitude is to win.

People don’t understand why guys keep coming back, why a lot of older players who played for the Celtics keep coming back. It’s the tradition.

Actually I think it’s better for me to come off the bench, because for them first couple of minutes when that first five is in there, you can see the little things and what you need to do when you get in there.

I will go off at times. Overall, I’m a pretty good teammate.

I was never one to feed into what the media was saying about us, especially out there in Portland because I was so in-touch with the people everyday.

Look, I’m not a water expert. I’m not a scientist. But I’ve been to Flint. I’ve seen what’s happening. We have a third-world situation still going on in the United States of America. That’s the truth.

I just love Portland, man. For real.

What I tell a lot of the younger guys is, ‘My speed isn’t the same, my agility isn’t the same, but yet I still can talk.’ That’s an extra defender out there.

I’m not in this league to be an All-Star. I’m not in this league to make the Hall of Fame. I’m not in this league to make the all-defensive team.

Hey, people have their own opinions. But when I’m on the floor and I don’t see somebody giving their all – I’m going to demand an effort. I’m out there to win games, and that’s the bottom line.

To me, once you lose that step or two, you pick up a step or two with your head.