Jamaican Quotes

Pat Riley, Dave Checketts and Ernie Grunfeld - they brought the Knicks back to the glory days. It started with Rick Pitino. We took our first step with him, making the playoffs. When Pat came in we just kicked the door open.

New York is a passionate city. They want a winner. They deserve a winner. I think we did an outstanding job of bringing it back.

Most of the fans will still be Knick fans.

If I want to average 32 points a game, I can do that easily. It's just eight, eight, eight, eight. No problem. I can do that anytime. That's not being cocky. That's confidence.

I've been to the Hall of Fame many times, in grade school and high school. I had field trips to the Hall of Fame and taking tours of it. I just never thought about that one day I possibly might be in it. I think it'd be great.

I've been an assistant for seven years now and I haven't had one head coaching interview. I'm doing something wrong.

I'm sure at some point I will get back into coaching, but right now I need to focus completely on my kids.

I wish I had stayed and finished my career here in New York.

I never knew what basketball was. I started playing on the playground. People used to laugh at me and joke at me because I was so tall and I didn't know the game and couldn't play it.

Every time when they would call my name I kept hearing 'New York Knicks' instead of 'Seattle SuperSonics.'

Every parent wants to see their kids excel.

Brooklyn, it's a great town, a great city. It's New York.

Amare, Carmelo Anthony, Chauncey Billups - they're virtually unstoppable.

I'm just like any person who is coaching in this league, I'm just looking for an opportunity, that's all.

Everybody always thinks the grass is always greener.

Then my mother was taken ill and died and my father took me to St. Mary's.

The Four Aces asked me if I'd like to sing with them as they didn't really have a lead singer.

Sometimes I'd hear things on other people's records and I say I wanted it on my records, but Leslie Kong said, no, it wasn't right and that it wasn't my style.

So, after school, I needed to learn a trade and started to work as a tailor.

Recently, I've been working on anew album of material, which should be out in the new Millennium. I'm not sure which song will be put out as a single, but I'm still hoping to get another record in the charts.

I was born in St. Andrew's and raised in Kingston then I attended the Alpha Boy's school.

I like to write songs about what's happening, what I see around me and what I hear. Everyday life. Someone may be talking to me and I may take it from that.

I don't write about the same thing every time, everyday, different things are happening out there and if you take the time to look around, you can see that, then you can put it all together and tell the story.

Things will get better if you just hold out long enough.

You fool around with different pitches playing catch, but it's not the same when you've got to face some guy with a bat in his hand.

You don't get old being stupid.

There are certain things I can't do, certain pitches I can't hit. You stay away from them. You try to wait for pitches you can hit. The bat speed isn't what it used to be. You make up for it by using your head, working counts, getting ahead in counts and getting pitches to hit and hitting them hard.

The first time I picked up a bat in a professional game, I hit a ball hard left-handed, and my first home run was so effortless, it surprised me.

It's good to know you're working for someone you're familiar with, who's a friend and he has your back and you have his back also.

It all comes down to when spring training comes. Do you want to go or don't you? If you want to go, you go.