Allen Iverson Good Quotations

It's a big win for us...just because we've been struggling to win a game after a game. You feel good about not giving up one after we win one.

It was important. We know they were a team that's been struggling all year and we just wanted to get this win tonight. Being that we got the one on their home court, we figured they were gonna try to come in and win one on ours and we did a good job of being focused and playing the game and finishing it out.

I feel like everybody knows what is at stake. Everybody knows the importance of every game. We had a good meeting before the game in New York and I think it helped us out because it got us focusing on what we need to do as a basketball team.

I don't really care if I play well or play bad, it's frustrating to lose the game. It doesn't do any good if we play well and lose basketball games. You still got a loss. It's like you didn't even go out there and do anything.

My shot felt good from the beginning of the game to the end.

Its easy to say that because we have been winning. Obviously we have been playing good enough defense to win basketball games, but we still need to get better.

When you have a half like that, nine times out of 10, you're going to have a good lead.

When you have a first half like that nine times out of 10 you're gonna have good lead. Guys are coming out with a sense of urgency the positive thing about that is that it's happening now.

Getting those two guys on the same page will be a major factor on us having a good season,'' Cheeks said.

I think it would have been good if we could have played all pre-season games together. It will be something we'll have to deal with, something we'll have to fight through.

If that doesn't let us know we can beat a good team, I don't know what will. Hopefully this one will give us some confidence, coming back on the World Champs.

The good part about this is you get to see what type of character you have as a team.

We thought we had chances to get back into the game. We turned the ball over here and there, and they did what great teams do - they took advantage of it. When you are playing against a good team like (Detroit), you have to take advantage of the opportunities and you can't throw the ball away.

It was a great feeling (to sit out) because I didn't feel good at all, ... I was telling Coach when I was getting ready to go back in that I wasn't feeling that well and he just told me to come back, and fortunately everything worked out fine. I just didn't feel good. I was dizzy out there the whole game. Once I stopped playing at halftime and came back in, I just never felt right. I think I'm coming down with something.

It was a great feeling, man. My first time being here, people embracing me the way they were. It's something I'm going to cherish ... It kind of made me more nervous, just wanting to give them a good show.

They're a good team, but it means more because we won the game. It didn't really matter what team came in here tonight, (we) just had to win the game. We had to get off the (streak). Regardless of who it was, we just had to win the basketball game.

That was my fault. Basically it was just good defense and I made a bad play.

As long as you leave everything out on the basketball court, you can go into the locker room and feel good about yourself and that's important..............

I don't think it's good for the league. I really don't because it kind of makes it fake. Guys wearing those clothes don't want to be wearing those clothes.

I don't think it's good for the league,

I would rather win than have good sportsmanship.

This is like a tribute to them, the people who helped me to get here. The thing that makes me feel good about the whole thing is, the fans voted me here.

When you work hard, good things happen

You have to go through good times and bad times to get where you're trying to go.

We had a real good meeting before the game in New York and I think it helped us out be-cause it got us focusing on what we need to do as a basketball team. I look at the stats and see that they still shot 50 percent and they almost scored 100 points and that's not something we want to give up. That's something we've got to look at as negative even though we got a win and try to improve on that.

Once they made one breakdown, they left me open, and I got a good look at it.

Come the fourth quarter, we buckled down and got the stop and made some good plays offensively. Earl, I don't want to call him a backup point guard because he's just as good as many guards in this league.

We're not eliminated till we're eliminated. I just feel good about not being eliminated. We get to live another day.

I feel good about how we're trying to get better defensively. We're nowhere near where we want to be, but I like the effort.

I feel good about how we're trying to get better defensively.

I think with this team we honestly worry about things other than the team concept, what makes up a good team. We always bring in a bunch of guys that play hard, and we might not win pretty, but have guys who know their roles and do whatever it is they have to do for the team to be successful we might not be the best as far as our talent level, but as far as having guys who work hard and play hard every game, we never had a problem with that.

just because you put a guy in a tuxedo, it doesn't mean he's a good guy.

I told him before the play that if both men went to me, to go to the basket and get a good shot. Things didn't go the way we wanted tonight.

I though I got a pretty good look. He had a hand in my face (Andre Miller) but I got a great look.