Antoine Walker Quotations

Because there are no fours.

I don't know what it is. We're going to have to start coming out early or warm up harder or something.

I am excited. Our preparation begins tomorrow. When I was with Boston, we were just trying to get in the playoffs. Our goal here is to win a championship.

If someone gets 81 on me I'm going to clothesline him.

He looked great. Better than last year. He?s slim, in shape. The last couple weeks he was really on top of his game.

Whatever happens in the playoffs will be fine. We're going to play eight, nine, 10 guys, anyway. I'm comfortable with both roles. I understand both roles.

We've got to get the ball right to Shaq and make sure he gets going early.

He's going to stick his nose in there. And he's probably the heart and soul of their team because he does all the little things on the floor that drives players on other teams crazy.

He just said he was stiff and he was tight, but you knew it was hurting him because he only got to the free-throw line once. He had his mid-range game working tonight.

I was brought to this team to take on different roles and do whatever I needed to do to help win a championship. I understood that.

We had to play without our best player on the floor and it's cost us. He's the guy we depend on to make a lot of plays for us. He clogs up the middle and he can also get guys shots and that's the reason we shoot such a high percentage throughout the season -- because we can get him the ball when we need to.

We haven't played very well against the top teams in the league, and everybody believes they know what's going to happen to us come April. Sunday is a big game for our confidence - to get a win against a quality team.

We got killed. We have to improve against the good teams. We're very frustrated with it. On Sunday we get a chance to correct that.

We've got to focus in. We've got to take more of a playoff mentality for these last five games and not mess up our season.

We've just got to keep it going until he can get back in the right frame of mind, which he's not going to do in the next two months, regardless. I don't care what anybody says. He's going to be able to hide it, but it's going to be very difficult for him to get back to the right frame of mind.

We want to even this thing up 2-2. It's more or less psychological for people that don't believe that we can beat them in a seven-game series.

We gotta concentrate more. When we've got a team down, we've gotta step on them.

We got New Jersey one step closer to catching us as the second seed. We have to finish up these last eight games on a strong note.

We feel like we can play better. We felt like the first game they hit us with a real good shot. We don't think we've hit them with a good shot, where we've dominated for 48 minutes.

I've been around for a long time and gone back so often that it's not a big deal. I'll get to see my kids and family, but probably not (tonight).

It's all good pressure. We're a very focused group, understanding what's in front of us.

The biggest thing is when you get touches, to make them quality touches.

It was like playing the Chicago Celtics. I like their uniforms. They look good, and they play good in their retro uniforms, too. Our retro uniforms don't work too good for us.

I'm capable of having big nights. My thing is to be as efficient as possible.

I didn't even think about it all night. I got my second wind somewhere along the way, and never really felt tired at all.

He's very good at flopping and acting. He's a guy you have to keep your head against. He may take a charge you don't feel is a charge.

He's very cautious with guys' health and bodies. But he still wants us to be in tip-top shape.

He told us he wanted the ball a lot and he wanted to be dominant down low.

All they did was hold serve at home. That's what they are supposed to do. Tuesday night will be the biggest game of the series. We are a talented team and it's time to step up.