Basketball Quotes

I was about 14, and my friend's stepdad asked me to do a 10K with him because his son - who was more into basketball - didn't want to. It was amazing, and I still remember the time I got: 48:23.

That's kind of what I want to do-set my own trend in the basketball world.

I know how to turn the bad into good always.

Once you learn how to do something, you don't lose it. Unless you die.

If he were on fire, he couldn't act as if he were burning. He can't out-act me on the big screen.

I'm just getting better and better. It's just like a bunch of worker bees protecting the king bee, because I'm not a queen bee. I'm a king bee.

Przybilla can't guard me when I'm 27, 37 or 47.

I'm a very quotatious person.

I came here with the perfect chemist's perception. The formula they had was perfect and any added ingredient could make it go bad or worse.

It's his show and I'm just trying to make him look good. If we were the same age there might be a little tension, but I'm on my way out... I am here to serve your every need, King James.

If I was able to have the game I have and shoot 80% from the line, I'd probably be an arrogant person rather than a humble one. Everything happens for a reason.

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.

Stay out of the gentlemen's clubs. Get a lot of rest. Just have fun and relax and stay focused.

My motto is very simple. Win a Ring for the King.

No matter where they put people, no matter how they try to promote people, there aren't too many people in the game today that are on my level on and off the court.

He's the president. I'm the general. Unless I want to get impeached, I got to do what he says.

They asked me when I was out there, 'Why do you want to be traded?' I said me staying here is like divorcing my wife and marrying someone who looks like me. That's backwards, man.

The problem with kids these days is they don't have enough fun stuff to do. When I was stationed with my family in Germany, youth basketball programs gave me something to strive to do my best at.

Get away from my house. What do you want?

It's LeBron's team. He's the captain. This is the time in my career where I can fit in. I'm now in the security business. My job is to protect the King, and that's what I'm here to do.

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.

I don't take anything personal. I just have a certain file in my head, so Earthlings must be careful with what they say.

I just said to myself, 'Damn, I'm a great player.'

As a military child I first learned how to deal with different types of people and how to deal with order.

I'm the LCL - the Last Center Left. I've been doing the same things for 13 years, but now they're flopping and falling, and the refs are falling for it, too.

They are that same group, but I've got my own rivalristic problems. Is that a word, rivalristic? I've got my own rivalristic problems in the Eastern Conference.

I don't know. I don't have a fax machine, so I didn't get that message.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

I'm probably going to have to go with Kobester. He's an assassin with LeBron coming right after.

Most ferocious was Kobe. Fiercest, most competitive, it was Kobe. D Wade is second after that.

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

You know how I be. Last week Kobe couldn't do without me.

I wouldn't. I would just go home. I'd fake an injury or something.

I'll beat you up right now if you want me to.

The East is going to be pretty easy for me. The Great Chest of the West becomes the Great Beast of the East.

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 told my wife the other day, I'm the Halle Berry of the NBA. Everybody wants this, baby. Everybody wants me.

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.

How can Benedict Arnold be reliable in what he says?

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

That has nothing to do with basketball. That's just because I'm sexy.

I want to go to police academy, I want to actually go out and make a couple of arrests. I want to go undercover.

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.

I don't ever want to grow up. I guess I'm like Peter Pan. Grown-ups have problems. I want to stay happy.

I'm sort of like a specialist. I go in, do what I do and every four years, they get tired of me and I have to relocate myself.