Richard Hamilton Quotes (52 Quotes)


    In all my years, going back to Connecticut, I've never had a point guard like Chauncey Billups. I've never played with one who wanted the ball in his hands in every tough situation and who could make big shots and keep his teammates involved.

    I thought we were great defensively. We pressured the ball, got in passing lanes, forced everything baseline. That's what we wanted to do tonight. We weren't worried about our offense. We wanted to come out and try to make a statement.

    It was weird. I really felt a sense of relief when I stepped on that floor. It gave me a chance to forget about everything that was going on off the court. I hadn't smiled all day until I got on that court.

    What was he doing, man The ref is supposed to be on the outside of the court, not running down the middle of the court. Luckily, nobody got hurt.

    They're a good team, man, no doubt. Michael Redd is a great scorer who can really hurt you if you don't guard him right. We're going to have to play tough to make sure he doesn't get off on us.


    I didn't ask for it. I thought I was going to have an early vacation, but I got through it.

    He's just a great coach, we love him to death. We just wished him luck.

    It was a great night. We missed a lot of opportunities to put them away. I think we missed a lot of wide-open shots. But at the end of the night when it was time to dig down we did.

    Even superstar players haven't been immune from the zebras' wrath. Nets forward Richard Jefferson picked up four fouls in the first quarter of a recent exhibition against the Bobcats. And Pistons star Richard Hamilton nearly fouled out in 18 minutes the other night against the Wizards. I guess we have to get used to it, ... In the exhibition season, it seems like they (referees) are trying to make a statement.

    That's the best Lindsey has looked. With his energy, his pressure on the ball, getting the ball to the right people at the right time, I thought he played great. It was the first time he's not been sick or hurt.


    I come from a place where this doesn't happen. To be here is unbelievable because when everyone tells you, you can't do something, you can't do something, you can't do something, and you get the opportunity to be in the NBA, to win a championship, and now, to be an All-Star, it's unbelievable.

    Everything was just like I thought it would be. It was fun and it was exciting. If I didn't have the jitters then it wouldn't have felt right. I definitely had the jitters.

    We've been waiting to get to the playoffs since the last game last season. So now to get an opportunity to play, we're all excited.

    Hopefully, I can talk to someone. 15,000 I don't understand that one. ... I don't think that was fair.

    Oh, yeah, you wanted this game, man. Coach Brown coached us the last two years, and he got a new team, so we definitely wanted to come out and make a statement.

    All that other stuff, best record and all of that, doesn't mean anything. This is the time we've been waiting for since we lost the last game last year.

    It was just a game we wanted to get, ... We didn't want to start off slow and sluggish. Flip did a good job of putting us in spots and allowing us to make plays.

    We just want to keep it going, ... Guys here are very energetic. Everybody's pulling for each other. We want to win as many games as possible, and we did a great job tonight.

    It's definitely amazing. Anybody that comes into the league with that much hype and is able to man-up to that and play so well so early when people probably thought it would take him longer it's kind of crazy.

    The thing about it is, we've got five superstars out there. We want one guy to go out there and average 30, we can do that. But we know what we want at the end. We want to win a championship.

    It's sore. We'll see how it feels tomorrow. But these are the playoffs. You've got to fight through it. I'm going to get through it.

    I have always been accustomed to that role, even going back to college. But the great thing is, I have a backcourt mate who's accustomed to it, too. So teams really have to pick their poison as far as who is going to take that shot.

    I don't even know what to say about it. I really don't. I just found out. Hopefully, I can talk to somebody - 15,000 I mean, I don't understand that one.

    It was a tough decision. Anytime you can play for your country, you want to. You watch it since you're a kid. But sometimes you have to make a decision.

    You go against these guys every night, there's not a whole lot of conversation. To get an opportunity to be on the same team and have fun with 'em is a great thing.

    We feel as though we have five superstars. If we want one guy to go out there and average 30, we can do that. But we know what we want at the end, a championship, and we know one guy can't guard five guys.

    We just knuckled down. We still felt we had an opportunity to win. Our bench did a great job of keeping us in the game. When we came in the game in the fourth quarter, we just wanted to execute every time down the floor and we did that.

    It was a crazy game, but we didn't panic. We just stayed with it and things started to happen. We've won a lot of games this year. We know the main thing is to get the win.

    I know before I get the ball if the shot is going in or not. It's all a rhythm shot. The follow through and the shot are the easy part. It's just getting there and stopping on a dime, and being in the right place at the right time, and getting the shot off.

    I thought that technical foul was definitely the turning point.

    We don't look at what the Chicago Bulls did. We just want to get home-court advantage.

    We kind of slept on them down there. We can't afford to do that this time around their record speaks for itself. We didn't have a chance down there. Once the ball went up, it seemed like we were down by 10 or 15 points. That just gives us more motivation, more awareness that we can't come out lackadaisical.

    I am able to use different strengths that I am good at, like back-door cuts, ... It's just a lot of moving without the ball, and that's something that I have always done pretty well.

    I think my goal was just to come out and have fun. Don't worry about playing in front of friends and family. Just do what got us there - playing together.

    I call it my 7-footer shot, because if a 7-footer is running at you, then you got to get it over him. I practice that shot all the time before games, in practice, all the time.

    They played hard and they didn't quit. They have a bunch of young guys that played with a lot of energy. At times, we didn't put the pedal to the metal when we should have, but the only thing that we look at is getting the win at the end of the night.

    We just want to come out and stay focused and try to win each game. I mean, it's a great streak. But to us, it's a game. We don't look at what the Chicago Bulls did or anything like that. We just want to get home court advantage throughout the playoffs.

    I'm beat up. I got a deep thigh bruise and a bad ankle. I'm just trying to fight through it. That's my whole goal. Regardless of how I'm shooting, if I can do any other thing to help my team win, if that's defend or whatever, just being out there, then I'll be out there.

    I don't know why he likes it, just because of the past couple of years I don't know why he likes it. I don't understand that comment.

    I threw the ball at the backboard. Guys do that all the time when they're frustrated. I thought I might get a delay of game, at the worst maybe one technical foul. But to throw me out of the game That was absolutely crazy.

    This is the best Lindsey has looked, with his energy and his pressure on the ball and getting the ball to the right guys at the right time. I thought he really looked great (Saturday). This is the first time of him not being sick, not being hurt or anything else.

    We pressured the ball, we got into the passing lanes and we forced everything to the baseline. We were great defensively, and that's really all we worried about. We really weren't worried about our offense. We just wanted to come out and make a statement on the defensive end.

    It's getting better. I'm happy that we had a couple of days before the next game. Hopefully I'll feel good by tomorrow night.

    It's secure, it's convenient, and it's popular with the public, ... We have very few problems. We get our money every week, we don't have bad checks, and we hardly have any overdrafts. This system takes care of itself.

    It scared me because it hurt for a couple of minutes, but I just pushed myself through it. I didn't want to sit out too long and have it tighten up.

    It was very calm, ... Coach said, 'We still got a lot of time. We're still going to win this game.'

    Usually, these games are tough to play, because you're looking at a week off. But our energy was great. We didn't want to lose two in a row, and we wanted to make a statement.

    I feel good, especially the last couple of games. He's been putting the ball in my hands and allowing me to create and allowing me to make plays.

    Some were greatly offended, some were terribly amused, but mostly they were shocked that he did it knowing we're coming up, ... How do you tell someone, especially a psychologist, who should know better, that he's making people uncomfortable


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