Basketball Quotes - Page 108

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.

I love the Miami atmosphere.

But you can not compare Yao's stats to mine. You just can't compare it and I am playing everyone one-on-one.

I knew I was going to make one. I wanted to make two, but the first one rattled in and rattled right out.

Nietzsche was so intelligent and advanced. And that's how I am. I'm the black, basketball-playing Nietzsche.

If they want to play football, we can play football.

Remember this-I'm going to bring a championship to Miami. I promise.

I'll take 14 out of 15 any day of the week, any week of the month, any month of the year, any year of the century. I don't know what comes after century.

I'm the master marketer.

I said what I felt, and people try to control people. But you can never control me. I'm a 31-year-old juvenile delinquent. Nobody can control me.

They won't talk to you because I'm undercover.

There was not too much to do as a kid when we arrived in Germany. Playing basketball and listening to music gave me something to do.

I'll just have to get it against my favorite team.

It's hard being the NBA's sex symbol, but somebody has to do it.

I'm a season kind of guy - not the preseason but the regular season.

They're going to come to me and they're going to say numbers for three years and I'm going to use my division and if it sounds good when I hear it, then I'll take it. But I'm not going to say I'll take less (than the max) . . . Put it this way. I won't take a BMW from somebody when I know I can get a Maybach from somewhere else.

This is my disguise, but it doesn't work.

My first movie. I think I won an Oscar for this.

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.

I think everything happens for a reason. With my game being the way it is, if I did shoot 80 percent, I'd be a harder person to deal with. It just keeps me humble. Just imagine me in my game shooting the same percentage that Reggie Miller shoots. I wouldn't even talk to you guys because I wouldn't have to.

That game was dedicated to Rick Adelman. I'm at home, in the bathroom, trying to take a dump, flipping through the channels and he's complaining (on TV) about how I'm stepping over the line. I can't even do a No. 2 in peace. I'm sitting there grunting at 12:30 at night. Can I go one day without somebody saying something negative about me?

I'd shoot zero percent before I'd shoot underhanded.

I respect the older guys.

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.

I told our guys they must not have cable because Antoine Walker knows how to play, Derek Anderson can play, Shandon Anderson knows how to play, and Gary Payton knows how play.