Basketball Quotes - Page 107

I've been the type of person [and] the type of athlete, I don't like to be given anything. I like to earn.

He doesn't need advice on how to play his position, but he needs advice on how to play team ball... If it's going to be my team, I'll voice my opinion. If he don't like it, he can opt out.

I don't have to make a point. I'm George Bush. I'm the president. I built that arena, so I don't have to make a point.

I didn't say anything. Got nothing to say. I'm a married man; I don't need a relationship with another man.

Since I suffered the injury on company time, why shouldn't I also be able to get surgery and do recovery on company time?

How can Benedict Arnold be reliable in what he says?

We had more great times than bad times together, but they've moved on, I've moved on. I have a new team now and I have a new focus.

Georgetown. Alonzo was the guy I always heard about. I've always wanted to measure myself against the best.

We want stuff done right. As long as it's my team, I'll voice my opinion. Yep, it's my team. You media guys might give it to him, like you've given him everything else his whole lifetime, but this is the Diesel's ship. And if we're not right, I'm going to go out there and try to get it right... Just ask Karl and Garywhy they wanted to come here. It was because of one person, not two. One.

That's sort of a trick question, and I don't have a trick answer. Next question, please.

In the seven or eight years we were together, we were never together.

I'm not the one buying love. He's the one buying love.

I don't know their names. Their names have been erased from my memory banks. If I tried to bring 'em back, I'd get shocked.

Let's put it in old movie Mafia terms. There are guys that are in position to get by but they didn't wait their turn. They back-doored the top guy to get the power. For example, Sonny Corleone went up there, and he wanted to be the top guy. And the Godfather said, 'You know what dude, I'm a star.' That's what I'm doing now, and that's what I was trying to do with what's-his-name.

There is nothing to say because I know everything about him. I raised him. I know what's a charade, and I know what's not a charade. I'll leave it at that.

There is nothing for me to be sour about. What you got to understand is that I'm a military man. We usually do my shift for four or five years and then you got to move on.

I'm like tax. You're going to pay one way or the other.

My personal opinion is, how, if you never hung out with somebody, do you know them so well? I never hung out with that dude because the dude is a weirdo.

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.

I've won at every level, except college and pro.

I'm the NBA's best NFL player, and I've always been the sexiest 7-footer in the NBA - for 12 years running.

I'd like to thank everyone who voted for me. And the one guy who didn't vote for me, thank you, too.

Phil took us to the finals three out of the five years and you want to fire him and want to bring in Mike Krzyzewski? Come on, man. That's like being married to J-Lo, then dropping J-Lo for a girl that's 5-10, 480 (pounds).

Doesn't matter. If I would've had a beer before the game, I would've been drunk. So I don't believe in 'if.'

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.