Rasheed Wallace Quotes
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.
Wallace, Rasheed. Interview. The Oregonian, 14 Jan. 2001.
Battle was the grandson of a Revolutionary war soldier and the son of a former slave. He was the first person inducted into the New York City Police Force when it was first organized after the consolidation of the boroughs in 1898. He became the first Black Police Sargent and the first Black Lieutenant of the city and was probably the only Black senior police officer in the country at that time.
Rasheed Abdul Wallace is an American former professional basketball player who played 16 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA). A native of Philadelphia, Wallace played college basketball at the University of North Carolina before moving on to the NBA in 1995.