Ben Wallace

“You don't have to be a great scorer to be successful in this league.”

“No one wants you to be around if you're not going to put in the work.”

“Washington helped me learn the game. Orlando gave me the opportunity to fight for a starting position and gave me the confidence to know I could compete in the NBA. In Detroit, I had a bond, a brotherhood with a group of guys. We stuck together. The bond we shared got us over the hump plenty of nights. We were the definition of true champions.”

“If you're not going to put in the effort, your size is not going to take you so far. As long as you go out there and grind and go hard, good things will continue to happen to you.”

“I'm not a defensive specialist, I'm a basketball player.”

“The bigger your dreams are, the less your fall is.”

“I have no quit in me.”

“Once I had the opportunity to get my feet wet and play and enjoy this game, I just wanted to be on the floor at all times.”

“Life is what you give it, life is what you take from it. You give life. You take from life. How much do you take? How much do you leave behind?”

“When you gel together as a team, you don't have to go out there and try to beat the world by yourself.”

“Mom was 6-4, 235 herself.”

“My biggest challenger was my mom. Every time I didn't do the right thing, I'd have to see her face.”

“I watched my mom raise a family of 11 kids, and it was a struggle for her. I remember what that was like for her.”

“I never thought you could win when you've got five guys on the floor looking for the ball and no one out there doing the little things.”

“I learned how to play the game without using my athletic abilities while playing overseas. When I got my NBA opportunity, it enhanced my fundamentals.”

“Anytime you are named as an all-star is one thing. But to be named a starter in an all-star game that was definitely a great experience for me and is something I will remember for the rest of my life.”

“Basketball, eventually I'm going to have to retire one day. Players are going to come in and take my job. But education, I'll always have my education.”

“The All-Star Game is about going out and having fun, it's more for the fans. Whatever happens, happens.”

“I met Draymond when he was about nine years old. We talked about basketball. It just making me feel good just knowing that he actually listened and he applied everything I talked about to basketball.”