James L. Dolan Quotes

I frankly think the NBA All-Star game has run its course, the whole dunk contest... The game - if those guys actually played hard in that game, it'd be the best watch ever.

People came to the All-Star Game to see the dunk contest.

Several NBA teams got their best gates every season when they scheduled a doubleheader and booked the Globetrotters and their stooges for the opening game.

Growing up, I was always that kid that kinda watched All-Star Weekend on TV, every event.

Even if your teams are doing lousy and you don't have a good concert, you are still going to be Madison Square Garden, you are still going to be the 'showplace of America.'

It's not the NBA Finals, it's not even a regular-season game. It's the All-Star game, it's a celebration. A celebration of talent, speed, grace. Let's put it on display and have some fun.

I'm glad many Jews attend Knick games.

I watch a lot of NBA basketball, especially with the playoffs.

My most memorable moment came in 1985 as we beat the Boston Celtics.

I just went to your typical public schools, and my dad would take us to the movies every week, or he'd buy scalped tickets to San Antonio Spurs games. I remember I was four or five years old and my parents, who were very young, took us to see The Police in Austin, and Iggy Pop opened.

In 1981, when I went down to visit Georgia Tech, I watched Michael Jordan play and literally get ridiculed for taking a jump shot in the championship game that went off the backboard, and they won. People are forgetting that Michael was just one of the players when they went to the Dream Team.

You don't have to be Wilt Chamberlain to get into the Basketball Hall of Fame. If you don't have a sweet turnaround jumper from 18 feet, the best route to the Hall is fatherhood. Daniel Biasone, aka the 'father of the 24-second clock,' made the cut.

In 1949, I saw a World War II veteran named Lou Brissie, who had nearly lost a lower leg in combat, pitch in the All-Star Game in Brooklyn.

I love New York. It is an amazing city, and the U.S. Open is a lot about the show. There are tens of thousands of spectators; these are some of the best courts in the world, and there is nothing like being here and making memories.

For Premier League games, you get people coming from all over, paying big money to get into the games as part of a weekend away.

Ever since I was a kid and all the time I have played in the NHL, NHL players have played in the Olympic Games.

I've done everything - All-Stars, Olympics. The only thing I haven't done is win MVP of the league. There's nothing else I haven't accomplished.

I've always felt Twickenham has a special aura.

It doesn't get much more special than playing at Wembley in front of 70,000 people. It's definitely what dreams are made of.

How many times have you had a crappy Super Bowl, but everybody goes to the Super Bowl because it's an event.

Wembley is a ground with great history. It's hosted games and players of great prestige. It's always important playing on great stages like this.

A final in Berlin is always something special.

My first memory of the Garden, it's probably like any other kid in New York: it's either watching the Knicks win the championship or Muhammed Ali against Joe Frazier.

The Knicks are a special team.

I love playing at Madison Square Garden.