2011 - The most memorable Quotes of the year

Ten time all-star, 2007 league-MVP, 2011 finals-MVP.
One day soon we'll have a statue outside the AAC.
Without question, the greatest player in Maverick's history: Dirk Nowitzki.

Tonight, I am announcing that the American combat mission in Iraq has ended.

For the region, today's events prove once more, that the rule of an iron fist inevitably comes to an end.

This marks the end of a long and painful chapter for the people of Libya, who now have the opportunity, to determine their own destiny in a new and democratic Libya.

How can we ask a student to pay more for college before we ask hedge fund managers to stop paying taxes at a lower rate than their secretaries? How can we slash funding for education and clean energy before we ask people like me to give up tax breaks we don't need and didn't ask for?

I'm gonna miss a lot about the game. I'm going to miss the competition, the friendship, the fans, joking with the media and I'm really going to miss the free-throws.

Nothing to celebrate yet. We have to go down there and treat the next one like game 7.

We wanna play like there's no tomorrow. If we do that, I have no doubt in my mind, we can be successful.

And on nights like this one, we can say to those families who have lost loved ones to al Qaeda's terror: Justice has been done.