Carmelo Anthony Playing Quotations

For two days, George (Karl) has been constantly stressing that this is a team that we'll be playing against. We kind of wanted to make a statement that if we play you in the playoffs, this is what you're going to see.

If we win playing ugly ball, we'll take it.

We match up with them pretty good, despite how the record turned out when we played them throughout the season. I look forward to playing the Clippers. Playoff basketball is a lot of excitement. It's going to be fun, especially in L.A.

It is getting old. I hope we have everybody out there as soon as possible. Playing with a 6-4 lineup is tough.

That boy got eyes on the front and back and both sides of his head. He got eyes everywhere. He's always playing hard. Only thing I like about him, he looks for his teammates first, then he goes out there. He's not a selfish player. I can play with somebody like that all year long, maybe in the future we can get him out here in Denver.

Me playing only 6 minutes in the first half really hurt us. Anybody gets frustrated over fouls. It's a matter of how you bounce back. I tried to come back in the second half and bounce back. . . . By that time it was a little too late.

Tonight we stuck to our game plan which was to get out in the open court. We just needed to get back to playing basketball and having fun.

You saw us playing the way we have to play down the stretch. The way we must play the rest of the way.

It's a special day to be playing on. I can pay my respect to the man. I dedicate the game to him.

I'm just playing my game and not worrying about who we're playing against. It's nice to come home and show the fans what we've been doing on the road. We've been playing well, especially the past eight games or so.

George, for the last two days, was stressing the fact that, if the playoffs started tomorrow, (Memphis) would be the team we'd be playing against. I think we wanted to make a statement that if we play y'all in the playoffs, this is what y'all are going to see.

You've got a lot of guys who are playing just as well as I am and deserve it.