Quotes about basket
basketball bigs known
I'm known as The Big Baryshnikov. Shaquille O'Neal
basketball player said
I just said to myself, 'Damn, I'm a great player.'
basketball cactus bigs
The Big Cactus... because if you come too close, you're gonna get stuck.
basketball brother moving
Going from Army base to base as a kid taught me to be a man of all nations. I'd go to the Jewish people and say, 'Shalom, brother.' I go to the Muslim people and say, 'Salaam aleikum.'I go to the Chinese people and say, 'Nee hao mah,' which means, 'How you doin'?' I go to the Japanese people and say, 'Konnichiwa.' I go to San Antonio, Texas, and I get along with Mexicans. Then I go to Louisiana and hang with the Creoles. Moving around a lot made me a man of all people.
basketball growing-up character
Sometimes I feel like the Tom Hanks character in Big. But my life is not a movie. I never have to go back to Coney Island to find the fortune-teller machine so I have to grow up again.
basketball guy positive-energy
It's t'ai chi every time. I'm using your positive energy, and I'm blowing off it. See, most guys can't push, they got to lean. When they lean, I spin.
basketball tired giving
I don't get tired. I get beat up. You keep chopping on a tree, you need to give the tree some rest so the chlorophyll will fill back up and the tree gets its energy back.
basketball baby bulls
When I first came in, I partied and had a good time. I used to spend $500,000 on chains that don't make no sense. Then I started having babies. I don't do the bull**** no more.
basketball home fake
I wouldn't. I would just go home. I'd fake an injury or something.
basketball beautiful sexy
I've been 11, 12 percent body fat my whole career. But when you've got a big, sexy, beautiful man that's up in the 340s, 350s, the way you guys were taught on this planet, you're going to automatically think it's fat.
basketball lasts lakers
You know how I be. Last week Kobe couldn't do without me.
basketball fax-machines messages
I don't know. I don't have a fax machine, so I didn't get that message.
basketball simplicity sticks
If you don't stick to simplicity, you'll die a horrible death.
basketball say-anything lakers
I'm a cop, and cops talk. They called me the day he did it, but did you ever hear me say anything about it? I played ball, because that's how I am. I'm true.
basketball certain be-careful
I don't take anything personal. I just have a certain file in my head, so Earthlings must be careful with what they say.
basketball winning player
If I don't get five [titles], I won't be happy with myself as a basketball player. I don't know how you guys will feel about me.
basketball want beats
I'll beat you up right now if you want me to.
basketball west east
The East is going to be pretty easy for me. The Great Chest of the West becomes the Great Beast of the East.
basketball son winning
Win or lose, I am programmed to do more. That's because I am the other son of Jorel - Superman.
basketball fun benches
Once the Hack-a-Shaq works once, you know I'm going to see it again. The only thing worse for basketball than that defense is the Lack-a-Shaq offense, where I have to go to the bench because of foul trouble. There is no fun in that.
basketball insult
I take that as an insult, even at 36.
basketball boys mama
I'm a mama's boy above all.
basketball football play
If they want to play football, we can play football.
basketball compare can-not
But you can not compare Yao's stats to mine. You just can't compare it and I am playing everyone one-on-one.
basketball team thinking
On paper, I think this is the best team I've been on.
basketball age demise
The only demise of Shaquille O'Neal will be his age.
basketball hero lakers
Kobe always tried to be a hero. But you know, as the saying goes, a hero ain't nothing but a sandwich.
basketball shoes would-be
I never thought a basketball shoe would be named after a woman, let alone me. Sheryl Swoopes
basketball brother awards
This is an award I couldn't have won on my own. I can't thank these guys enough. These are my guys, these are my brothers. Kobe Bryant
basketball lying tasks
I'm focused on the task that lies ahead for us.
basketball daylight balls
When handling the ball, I always would look for daylight, wherever there was daylight. Julius Erving
basketball play gold
I positively, positively, positively want to play. I've got everything else so why not a gold medal? I want to play. Patrick Ewing
basketball disappear
I'm not going to disappear. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar