Quotes about basketball
basketball might someday
Someday I might have to put down a basketball and have a regular 9-to-5 like everybody else. Shaquille O'Neal
basketball dream father
My father made me who I am. He gave me a basketball and told me to play with the ball, sleep with the ball, dream with the ball. Just don't take it to school. I used it as a pillow, and it never gave me a stiff neck.
basketball pythagorean-theorem answers
There is no answer to the Pythagorean theorem. Well, there is an answer, but by the time you figure it out, I got 40 points, 10 rebounds and then we're planning for the parade.
basketball mom mother
David Stern should get with the mothers of the NBA and let the moms decide what the dress code should be. I asked my mother if I could wear a chain, and she told me yeah. So I do stuff that my parents allow me to do.
basketball media excellence
For all my friends in the media who like quotes, mark this quote down. From this day on I'd like to be known as 'The Big Aristotle' because Aristotle once said, 'Excellence is not a singular act; it's a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.'
basketball police done
I put a lot into it, and when I am done playing, I plan on going undercover and then being the sheriff or chief of police somewhere, either Miami or Orlando, I don't know yet.
basketball college levels
I've won at every level, except college and pro.
basketball names clubs
Well, I don't remember all the names of all the clubs we went to
basketball lucky shots
One lucky shot deserves another.
basketball pythagorean-theorem perfect
Me shooting 40% at the foul line is just God's way to say nobody's perfect.
basketball stronger faces
Why don't you bring your face up here and let me punch it? Then you can tell me (if I'm stronger).
basketball jobs player
And I want to do it the right way, like everybody else, not just a famous figurehead that gets a job because he is a famous basketball player. I want to really learn the business.
basketball worry problem
I never worry about the problem. I worry about the solution.
basketball games play
Challenge me. Treat me like a game of checkers and play me. That's all I'm asking, just play me. Treat me like Sega and play me.
basketball football pain
I started out as a football player. I liked to inflict pain. In basketball, it was the same thing.
basketball being-strong want
I want to be strong, dominant. Like Wilt Chamberlain.
basketball way pay
I'm like tax. You're going to pay one way or the other.
basketball sports golf
If you got the game, you got the game. That's why Tiger Woods is out there playing golf with Greg Norman.
basketball night media
We're going to miss Damon. He was a great shooter. . . . He got what he wanted, but he gave up a lot. No more night life, no more warm weather and no more a lot of media attention. . . . I guess this was his first shot at getting something big. I guess he had to take it.
basketball guy defense
We would love to have Gary down here. He's still tenacious on defense, and I know he still wants [a title]. And I'm the only guy in the world who can get him one.
basketball football play
If they want to play football, we can play football.
basketball running player
I'm the NBA's best NFL player, and I've always been the sexiest 7-footer in the NBA - for 12 years running.
basketball intelligent black
Nietzsche was so intelligent and advanced. And that's how I am. I'm the black, basketball-playing Nietzsche.
basketball two firsts
I knew I was going to make one. I wanted to make two, but the first one rattled in and rattled right out.
basketball toilets paper
Can't nobody [mess] with me. I'm like toilet paper, Pampers and toothpaste. I'm definitely proven to be effective.
basketball fall two
But that is the only thing that slows me down is the system. No one, two or three was big enough to slow me down, only the system. It was the system that slowed me down to make my numbers fall. Not because I am older.
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 games way
But, hey I did everything the right way and earned my spot in this game, nothing was given to me.
basketball games nerves
I don't get nervous in any situation. There's no such thing as nerves when you're playing games.
basketball jobs work-out
I don't see us having a problem. It's going to be my job to manage the locker room, anyway, so it will work out.
basketball night play
I play against a front and a back every night, Ming does not have to do that, Duncan does not have to do that, Garnett doesn't do that. I am the only one that has to do that.
basketball bigs
I would like to be referred to as 'The Big Aristotle'.
basketball games pythagorean-theorem
That is why one day I said my game will be like the Pythagorean Theorem - hard to figure out. A lot of people really don't know the Pythagorean Theory. They don't make them like me anymore. They don't want to make them like that anymore.