Vince Carter Quotes

"You Toronto?  Vince Carter! Awesome! Slam dunk! Champion!"-Joe Yang, 20 year old Chinese student who won a contest to meet Vince, speaking to a Torontonian reporter

"Who's your favourite player?  Have you met Michael Jordan?  How much does that Rolex cost?-Excited student at an elementary school in Oakland where Vince was visiting

"I normally don't go to the Saturday night stuff, but with Vince there, I'll be at the slam-dunk.  I don't want to miss that.  He's my favourite player!-Shaquille O'Neal

"There was, I think, a little too much emphasis on the dunk contest."-Vince Carter, after taking the field apart on Saturday night

"I love the way you play the game, young man."-Karl Malone to Vince

"He's off the charts!   People say that.  But he really is off the charts.  He's amazing!"-Isiah Thomas, Slam-Dunk judge

"You saw it."-Jerry Stackhouse, dunker following Vince, on how hard that act would be to follow.

"It's over, ladies and gentlemen.  It's over, we can all go home."-Kenny Smith, announcer and Slam-Dunk judge, after Vince's first dunk

"He can fly, he's a winner, he played for Dean Smith. And he's a pretty good guy to boot. So he reminds us a bit of that other fella."-ESPN The Magazine

 
"I don't see any real flaws in Vince's game. He's become a good perimeter shooter, passes well off the dribble, makes good decisions in traffic, defends tough, plays within the team structure, and competes hard to win. I don't know what else he can do."-Dr. Jack Ramsey, former NBA coach

 
"He's probably the most talented player in the NBA right now."-John Thompson, TNT basketball analyst

  "If he's driven, he'll be one of the greats in this league for a long time and perhaps one of the greatest of all time."-Jeff Van Gundy, New York Knicks coach

"Fans love him enough to make him the leading vote-getter in NBA all-star balloting. Teammates love him because he's taken an injury-riddled team and
carried it on his back. The corporate world loves him because he remains singularly unaffected by his growing fame."-Doug Smith, Toronto Star

"As a person, he's one in a million."-Charles Brinkerhoff, Vince's high school coach

"He's great. He's reached that next level now."-Greg Popovich, San Antonio Spurs coach

"He jumped so high, it kind of bothered me."-Mitch Richmond

"I call him 'Elevator Man'."-Doug Christie

"He's Moses in shorts."-Dee Brown

"...travelling in the same rare air."-CNNSI

"...the most physically gifted of the new class."-Butch Carter

"...not like most rookies."-NBA.com