“I love Air Force Ones. That's the shoe I grew up with in Philadelphia....” — Rasheed Wallace Quote

“I love Air Force Ones. That's the shoe I grew up with in Philadelphia. My older brothers got me wearing them and I just stuck with them. Everyone in the neighborhood used to wear them. It's retro. It's tradition. That's me, old school.”

“I am a confident person. I can make predictions or whatever, that is just my confidence level. If I got out there and do that, fine. If not, ain't no tears coming out of my eyes.”

“I will go off at times. Overall, I'm a pretty good teammate.”

“When I got interested in football, nobody was cheering for Kansas City. Kansas City was trash. I said, 'That's my team.' Then what happens? We get Joe Montana and Marcus Allen.”

“People walking down the street would just say 'Ball don't lie.' I kinda feel like Bobby McFerrin, the mastermind behind 'Don't worry, be happy.'”

“I have this particular shoe with blood stains, marked all up sitting in my office. I always look at it everyday.”

“And then, when I thought about joining the Air Force, flying seemed like a natural extension of the motorcycling experience. You're going faster, higher. You're operating a machine that's a lot more powerful than you are.”

“I wore a uniform to school, so the white-on-white or black-on-black Air Force 1 Low was the simple sneaker to wear, but it was the standard.”

“I do a variety of weight-lifting, elliptical glider, stretching exercises, push-ups. And I do the Canadian Air Force exercises almost every day.”

“I remember the first time I dropped a couple of house records, someone threw an Air Force One in my face.”

“My father was an Air Force officer at the time of partition.”

“I like to have Air Maxes and Air Force 1s, I'm trying to collect more and more.”