Emeka Okafor Quotations

It was eating me up inside. My first time in the Final Four, I didn't want to miss a minute. I was going to miss 16.

I looked and Vince Carter, he played like 20-something games one year. I looked at everybody and a lot of high-profile players have missed a lot of games. A lot of them bounced back. So I can think to myself, 'OK, they did it, so I can do it,? and I don?t feel like the biggest loser.

It made me feel real special, all warm inside,

It seemed almost surreal. I'd envisioned myself in this position a million times, and yet it didn't feel like it was really happening.

At times they were playing so long out there. Ostertag (7-foot and 280 pounds) is just hard to move. Once you run around him, he's already got the ball in his hands.

You think of guards getting steals and big men getting blocks. But Gerald is such an athletic creature, you see how he does both.

If you don't think you can make the playoffs, then what's the point of even stepping on the court to begin with? Will we make the playoffs? Who knows? But that's our mentality.

If you fill your team with people that are used to winning, the tendency is that they will get the team to win, somehow, someway, eventually,

If that's the way he feels, so be it. I have thick skin. My feelings are not going to be hurt. He's got to make the best decision for him.

I like challenges. The fact that he's 7-feet, a completely mobile guy, it's going to pump me up.