Mike James Quotes (30 Quotes)

We saw a business opportunity and we jumped into it.

It starts tomorrow. We have got to put a whole game together. We have not done that yet. We seem to play well for stretches, but we can't seem to do it for 48 minutes. We have to start with a complete game tomorrow.

I told him that, because they call me the Mad Raptor, I gave him that title now. He's now the Mad Raptor because he got kicked out of the game.

He leaves a great impression because he's such a good person. He's tough on point guards because he demands so much, but at the end of the day, when you understand what he wants, it's easy to deal with.

I got off to a slow start last night and I just wanted to put the game behind me. I woke up this morning with a new mindset, came in early and got up some extra shots and got my mind right early.

I guess we have the attitude that we're in unfamiliar territory and we have no one but ourselves, so we stick together.

We are playing for pride right now. I think every time we come out onto the court we have something to prove to ourselves. Even though the season is winding down, we still have to go out there and give a great effort every night.

We're going to wind up seeing a lot of pharmacies close. That's the second shoe. East of I-95 or west of Charlotte, there are a lot of counties that only have one pharmacy who gets 70 percent and 80 percent of his business from these federal plans.

I practice those shots about 100 to 150 times each day. I feel confident that, if I have to, I can make that shot.

It doesn't matter what you do for 45 minutes, it's what you do the last three minutes.

I thrilled about the way this team played. Whenever they had a tough time out on the course or faced any adversity, they handled it perfectly. It was a real pleasure to watch them grind out this win.

Let's say that a patient has a prescription for a liquid medication and it costs me a net of 50. So I get the cost of that plus that 1.50. When I reach into the drawer, I just spent that 1.50 for the cost of the bottle to put it in.

It's hard to come back when you dig such a deep hole for yourself.

Definitely Toronto's going to be on my list because they're the first team that's shown me the love and also given me the opportunity to be able to showcase who I am as a player.

I do not think that God arbitrarily causes hurricanes and tornadoes and tragedies like this. The Bible says it rains on the just and the unjust.

We finished. and that's the thing. It's all about finishing at the end of the game. and we were able to withstand their onslaught of big plays ... we just had to make (Paul) out to be a liar.

There's certainly not enough revenue to meet overhead, much less make a profit.

Chris is not playing we still have to go out there and fight for 48 minutes. If we had won the game everybody would have said 'they did it without Chris.' We miss him, but we still had a chance to win with what we had.

They get a tidbit of information, but they don't get enough information to decide what they need to do.

That was the main thing, to keep the streak alive. What hurt us was the month of November. We dug such a deep hole for ourselves in that month and now we are starting to gain some leeway and every game is valuable.

My only focus is getting my back right because if I don't do that, no one will want me. But it would be great to play at home. It would be great to play in front of my family every night. But right now, I'm a Raptor, and I enjoy being a Raptor.

The game is four quarters long. I knew every shot that I was shooting in the first half was a good shot, they just weren't falling. I just kept being aggressive and I started finding people.

Any dog, you put him in the corner, no matter if they're vicious or not, they're going to bite back.

We didn't make the plays when it counted. We can't wait until the fourth quarter to start locking down. They made the plays and we didn't make the plays to seal the deal for us.

Elton Brand hugged me. He treated me like he hadn't seen me in years he just wrapped his arms around me and just wouldn't let me go.

We dug ourselves a hole and we just kept fighting back. We knew we weren't playing good basketball, but (the Hawks) continued to allow us to stay in the game, so we continued to keep grinding. In the fourth quarter, guys started hitting the shots they were missing earlier in the game.

I guess I'm not a point guard. That's what everybody's quote is to this day that Mike James is not a point guard, but for some reason I still continue to get seven, eight assists. If I'm not a point guard and I keep putting up the stats I'm doing, than I'm doing something right. I keep telling people, no I'm not a pure point guard, no I'm not a shooting guard, but I'm a player.

It's much quicker, actually, because it's electronic. In our computer is all the information we need, loaded in the computer, immediately.

We both see eye to eye on things and that's always a plus. I'll take a 'maybe' over a 'no' any day. The door's still open, it's not like I'm just shutting the door on Toronto.

We have a goal in mind and as long as we continue to keep playing basketball the right way and keep playing hard you never know what can happen in April.