Allen Iverson Quotes

If you commit to the defensive end of the floor, you're going to have a chance to win every night. And if you're a great defensive team, you're going to go to the playoffs.

The most overrated thing is that you're a good defensive team because of your coaching. No. You're a good defensive team because you care and because it's important to you.

Every kid thinks about scoring rather than not conceding.

I'm just going out there to do my role, the same role - defense first - and then see how the ball turns out on the offensive end.

The Knicks left me open a lot of times the last time we played them, and I was just making sure I took the shots that were there.

I don't know much about football but everyone seems to say that it is all about possession.

Sometimes in football you have to score goals.

I like every aspect of defense; I enjoy shutting down the offense.

We've been playing ugly. Without all of our bodies, we've been kicking it all over the shop, but fortunately we've been able to make the big buckets and rely on our defense for once.

Defense to me is the key to playing baseball.

The NBA has never drafted a player for defense. At any position, even at center.

You have to win games by scoring points, of course, so that's important. But when you're having nights against a good defensive team, you have to win in a different manner. You have to win a defensive-type game.

Strikers can't score every week, much as they would like to.

I'm an attacker, and forwards always want to score.

Being a presence on the defensive end, I know that's important to me, I have to establish that.

When you play defense what happens is everybody pays attention and they start talking about how you're the stopper, you can stop this guy. All of a sudden your game gets better on the offensive end and you become that versatile guard that everybody wants.

I always look forward to playing great players, great scorers, because I pride myself on my defense.

I really hate strikers.

You can't just score more points than last year without playing defense.

I have scored some goals, but that is not everything, is it? Football is more than that.

I like the uniqueness and creativity you can have on a basketball court; there's always a different way to score. Obviously, you have teammates, so it's easier to draw up plays, and tennis, you have your patterns and where you should hit based on percentage.

Not all players want to play defense. You get in foul trouble, you're going to be on the bench.

I just play hard on the defensive end. For me, being a good defender is someone who plays very hard on defense and just tries hard.

I still have a lot of confidence in my offensive game. I try to get guys involved and get in the lane, but defense is my backbone.

It is never good to concede a goal; it is part of our job not to concede, just as it is part of our job to score.