Rasheed Wallace Quotes

We play fair and we play hard. If we win the game we win, if we lose the game, we lose.

Basketball is like society - you're going to have good and bad.

You should always play 100 per cent, and you shouldn't expect every decision from the referee.

I was taught you never, ever disrespect your opponent or your teammates or your organization or your manager and never, ever your uniform.

Win or lose, do it fairly.

When we played softball, I'd steal second base, feel guilty and go back.

Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose-it teaches you about life.

When I play, I don't cheat. I played for 490,000 in Berlin, and I'll play just as hard for 100.

One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.

Golf is fundamentally about being honest. I see people hit eight shots and tell me they shot five. I never say a word. It is a reminder to me of what is at stake.

I'm a competitor. I like to win games. I like basketball and I like to win games.

I always say it's much nicer to win by shaking a man's hand rather than slapping him in the face.

When it's your will versus another person's will, the worst thing you can do is smile in their face when you're competing. That's what I tell our guys. Go have fun.

Winning isn't all that matters.

I think we're always chasing a win once the ball goes up.

The most important thing is to win, it doesn't matter how.

I'm just a basketball player going out there and trying to get wins.

I have never cheated anybody out of a victory, I have worked hard for every single race that I have won.

You go out onto the playing field every time to win and you will do all you can to do that, but not at all costs and especially not to cheat.

I've played quite a lot of real people, and it carries a special responsibility.

Missing a game or getting a little bit of a bump up or getting a scolding once in a while puts everybody in their right place.

I'm more of a purist competitor, and I enjoy the fighting aspect of it, but people enjoy my personality, and they enjoy that I tell the truth.

Playing basketball at MSG is a lot of fun when you are winning, but when you are not, it's not fun.

Sportsmanship is definitely an important thing in all sports. In soccer, we all respect each other on such a high level, between Sweden and Brazil and Japan or whatever team it is.

It can be difficult playing friends. But you also have to know that it's a match, and this is what you do. And you do your best.