Ben Wallace Quotes

Ben Wallace

Profession : Basketball Player

Birth : September 10, 1974

My family has been through a lot - just a lot of trials, tribulations and failures - and we didn't have a lot of anything besides love. So, when it came my time to do something, my family refused to let me fail. They didn't want me to fall into the trail that they followed to stay in Alabama.

Ben Wallace

I remember playing that tennis game with the two sticks, 'Pong.' That was crazy when I first saw it. It's funny to think that 'Pong' blew me away since all it was was a ball going back and forth.

Ben Wallace

Life is not hard. Life is very simple.

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I'll tell you my legacy: I wasn't welcome. I was too small. I couldn't play the game the way they wanted me to play the game. Sound like an uneven game to me. Put me on a level playing field, and I'll show you.

Ben Wallace

If you dream big and you make it halfway and can find someone else that know the rest of the way you can still get there.

Ben Wallace

Everything worth having is worth working for. And the harder you work, the more you appreciate what you achieve.

Ben Wallace

I played center but if I didn't have to guard guys damn near twice my size every night, I was free to roam around and do a lot more. I could guard the perimeter.

Ben Wallace

If I want to be a basketball player and you don't draft me, what am I going to do, quit, or keep going? Knock on the next door, knock on the next door, if one of those open I'm going to go in and display my talent.

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The bigger your dreams are, the less your fall is.

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I just go out there and play with all my heart.

Ben Wallace

There are no plays run for your sake as a defender - you just have to want it.

Ben Wallace

If you take somebody that never had anything and all they knew was hard work and determination and then you give them something, that's why I do what I do.

Ben Wallace

If you're not going to put in the effort, your size is not going to take you so far. As long as you go out there and grind and go hard, good things will continue to happen to you.

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I have no quit in me.

Ben Wallace

I'd rather have a guy that I carry to a fight and have to pull him back than a guy that I carry to the fight and I always have to push him.

Ben Wallace

On the offensive end you can work yourself into a rhythm, but on the defensive end you have to be aware of everything. That's not measured by shots made or missed, it's measured by heart and determination to get out and play somebody. That's how you win on defense.

Ben Wallace

I can have an off-night on the offensive end, but I should never have an off-night on defense.

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Charles Oakley was the first professional athlete that I met, period. That meant a ton. It proved to me that if I worked hard enough, good things would happen.

Ben Wallace

What Boston basically said was, I didn't 'pass the eye test.' They were looking for somebody bigger, bulkier. They put me where they put guys my size - on the perimeter.

Ben Wallace

When I took ownership on the defensive end, I made a commitment to myself to basically cancel out what was happening on the offensive end.

Ben Wallace