27 Quotes by Emeka Okafor

I've never really had a solid, legitimate post game where I felt comfortable with my back to the basket. I could fake it, but my confidence wasn't that high. Now I'm getting it because I have something to work with.

The things Hakeem does, you can't just watch a tape and pick up the move. This was the first time he taught it, and it's hard to teach someone else something you did so naturally. The problem was, if you do something minutely off -- even the way you spin or the way your arm might come out -- he'd have to say, 'No, that's not the move. The move is this.' And you have to do it precisely.

As far as them believing in me, it makes me feel good.

This place is incredible. I'm just happy we have a place that everybody likes. The other place was not good at all.

It was eating me up inside. My first time in the Final Four, I didn't want to miss a minute. I was going to miss 16.

It was a very difficult game to play in, ... I was hurting. I was trying to tough it out, but I was really limited. I wasn't as mobile as I normally was.

It made me feel real special, all warm inside,

You think of guards getting steals and big men getting blocks. But Gerald is such an athletic creature, you see how he does both.

It seemed almost surreal. I'd envisioned myself in this position a million times, and yet it didn't feel like it was really happening.