140 Quotes by Ben Wallace

I loved what that place stood for. You didn't walk into that place unless you were dead serious about working out.

I think it says a lot about the league, that you don't have to come out and try to dominate the basketball and dominate the game in order to have individual success.

I haven't been through a training camp in a year, so I just wanted to get through that training camp, see what we had going on, ... Give the young guys a chance to shine.

If our defense struggles a little bit, our whole game seems to struggle. It's good to know we're going out on this trip with our defense clicking.

I think it says a lot about the character of the guys in this locker room. We have had guys who have been hurting a little bit, who could have taken some time off. But they choose to come out and give us whatever they've got. That's all we ask.

I just had to continue to play my game. I couldn't let the calls dictate how I was going to play. I wanted to force them to adjust to me. I just came out aggressive and tried to make some plays.

It didn't matter, they were still going to lose. As long as we win the game, I am good. I don't have so much pride that I can't see the big picture.

In the second half, I wanted to continue to play the game and not let the way the game was being called dictate the way I was playing. Sort of force the officials to adjust to me and not try to adjust to them.

I thought they were the more poised team down the stretch. I thought we maybe lined up too many threes down the stretch and tried to force the outcome instead of doing what we usually do.