Nba Quotes - Page 12

I don't know what life is like, I don't know how regular people live. I just can never understand it. My first job was the NBA.

What I find fascinating … you have to give David Stern and the NBA a lot of credit … ESPN pays the league, and then the league tells them what to do. It’s more ESPN’s problem. You gotta have no balls whatsoever to pay someone hundreds of millions of dollars and let them run your business.

You gotta fight all the karate guys, and once you kill them off, now you gotta get to the ninjas. Once you get through the ninjas, now you gotta get to the showmen. Now me, I'm the showman of big men.

Enunciation, diction, all that stuff. None of that is in my personality.

It was a cheap shot. They won the game, move on. My thing is, I don't ask for a lot, but I demand my respect, especially from a guy like that.

Keep in mind, I'm not allowed to be tough. I'm tamed.

Opinions are like belly buttons; everybody has one. I never knock a man for his opinion.

Actually, Magic and the Lakers beat Philadelphia for Magic's first NBA Championship.

Effort is fully replenishable. There is no need to save any of it. Leave every bit you have on the playing field

Failure is acceptable. but not trying is a whole different ball park.

Accept a loss as a learning experience, and never point fingers at your teammates

The same way you slow me down: … You can’t.

I'm not trying to be like what I thought an NBA player is supposed to be growing up.

A thought is a thing as real as a cannonball.

Push yourself to keep improving or you'll stay as close to the bottom as you are to the top

It's important to keep trying to do what you think is right no matter how hard it is or how often you fail. Never stop trying

I ask myself why I do it [work]. Maybe it's to prove I'm still around. It takes a lot out of my body. I'm not an NBA player anymore. At my age, very few people can handle it.

It is as big a mistake to turn down a good shot as it is to take a bad one

Our goal is to be the best team in the NBA at the end of the year.

You never realize the value of coaching until your children play for a coach

I have learned that peace is not the absence of trial, trouble, or torment but the presence of calm in the midst of them

It is time for everyone to sit down -the NCAA, the NBA, the players union and the coaching fraternity-and come up with suitable solutions to these problems.

Praise behaviour that you want repeated

Truthfully, this is how I approach my workout: I want to be the best athlete I can possibly be. If I can out-perform some of the better athletes then I'm happy. When I look at the NFL or the NBA, these guys look how I want to look - it's useable, functional muscle.

All the guys in the locker room will give me a hard time and call me Robin Thicke or call me Justin Bieber.