Allan Houston Quotes (29 Quotes)

You see something like this, driving around in your car, walking around in your house, like Steph said, you almost feel guilty because there are people who have lost everything. I just want to encourage everyone to do something.

I think there's trust between the two men, ... I tried to be honest. I think everyone knows I have a lot of pride and I'm not going to try to play if I can't. But I think I can.

It was a challenge. You can kind of take it the wrong way and take it personally, but New York fans are passionate. They want to say, 'If I had that skill and that ability and that body, that's how I would play.' I knew that, but you have to put yourself in other people's shoes sometimes. All I could do is do what I could do. Even with the pain, the contract was a blessing. All I did was do everything to the best of my ability.

I always said that I would be back and told the fans that I would be back, and I always truly in my heart believed that, ... But sometimes your will, your passion, your competitiveness, kind of override what your body is going through, and I was strictly running off of those emotions and that will.

They're young. There hasn't been a lot of consistency with players. Hopefully when the organization can gain some momentum through some consistency with some players and the coach being there a couple of years. That's really how you start to build it back.

We're going to give it a couple of days to settle down and just keep doing what we've been doing, ... I'm not really overreacting to anything. It's just that you've got to give it time. I haven't really been doing it. Once you're going at full speed, your body has to respond to it. You have to let it do it at its own pace.

Right now I can't play. I'm not really healthy. It's not really to the point where it's healed. It's been a long time that I've been playing injured and I've been doing a lot of damage to my knees for a long time.

I don't think it's realistic to judge it off of training camp, honestly. Once we get back and we're not practicing twice a day and I give it some time to recover, then I'll have a better (assessment).

I almost fought back a lot of tears, honestly. It was great, a wonderful feeling. The last time I'd been in this building with a crowd was when I played.

Over the last two years, I have done everything I could possibly do to get back on the court, but injuries to my knee would not allow me to do it.

At the same time I don't want to be disruptive either, ... I want to make sure I'm doing whatever I can and my body is making the right progress.

He's an impact player, ... He's one of those guys that when you play against him, you say, 'Man, if we had him, it'd be nice.'

Training is different than going 100 miles per hour with a coach Brown team, ... That's the ultimate test. I tried it. The reason I didn't give it another chance was because I said, 'I've given it so many chances and tried everything I possibly could.' I

I don't have to come back, but I really want to. I really want to play and I believe God wants me to. And that's the one thing I've been very adamant about saying. It's been hard.

I just don't have it in my mind that I'm not going to be able to come back, honestly.

Let's pray for Jim Dolan. Let's pray for our organization.

What I will say is the retirement thing is something I've been laughing at, you should be laughing at, everybody should be laughing at, ... It is kind of frustrating. As much as I've communicated to everyone that I'm not going to retire, it's like people still don't know. I'm not going to retire. I'm still going to play.

If it had been what was supposed to happen, it would have happened.

Like Steph said, you almost feel guilty because there are people 10 hours from us that have lost everything, ... But this is something that we're supposed to do.

Even though I wasn't practicing twice a day, I was still doing some stuff, ... So it just really didn't have any time to recover. I don't think it's fair to judge it off training camp, though.

I always wanted to be in those moments when you could have an opportunity to win the game,

I'm not going to retire, ... I believe in my heart that I'm going to be back. It would be nice to play two more years here and get close to winning a championship.

I hope that all of our fans realize how much of an honor and privilege it was to represent them and New York at Madison Square Garden for all of these years,

It was always my dream to finish here.

One thing, however, has remained the same his belief that he is supposed to be on the court. It has everything to do with the deep feeling and desire I have to still contribute, the feeling that I know that this is still my purpose, ... I wouldn't have worked this hard for a year and a half if I didn't believe I should be out here.

I always wanted to be in those moments where you could have an opportunity to win a game with a play or a shot, or have a part in it, ... I've been very fortunate to have a lot of those moments. Miami was probably the single moment that stands out. If I had a Knick memory that would stand out, that would be it.

Fellow Knick Allan Houston also attended. When you see something like this and drive around in your car and walk around your house, it's like Steph said, you almost feel guilty because people 10 hours from here have lost everything, ... We're supposed to do this from our heart.

Miami probably was the single moment that stands out. Those are the moments you dream about, and I was fortunate to have it happen to me.

I pictured this day for a long time but I didn't think it was going to happen so soon. ... I did everything that I possibly could to get back and finish my career the way I would have like to. But the injury wouldn't allow me to do that. This is the right time for me to move on.