Basketball Quotes

We're going to do it again next year. We'll see you again next year. Yeah, I said it. Yeah, I said it. We will do it again next year.

I've read that same formula, but as an athlete I'm classified as phenomenal. You could look it up.

I think I'm one of the patches of the quilt here, myself and Dwyane.

They want to beat the Don Dadda. It means, 'The Man.'

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.

I'm the last in the line of Russells and Chamberlains.

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.'

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 respect the older guys.

You have to foul me to stop me, period.

When you feed the big dog, it does whatever you tell him to do.

I'm one year older, one year sexier - one more, baby. For me, it's all about the bigger picture. We want to win the whole thing. We've got to beat whoever is in our way.

Being the best right now doesn't do anything for my feathers.

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

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

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

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

When I first came in, I partied and had a good time. I used to spend $500,000 on chains that don't make no sense. Then I started having babies. I don't do the bull**** no more.

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.

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.

In junior high in Germany I fought kids all the time. I had such a bad temper, I almost got thrown out of school. A few lickings from my dad got me out of that scene. He wore me out with a paddle.

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.

I'm the master marketer.

If you go 72-11 and don't win (the championship), it doesn't mean anything. Actually it does. It means you've cheated and played an extra regular-season game.

They say things happen in three. I won with the great Kobe, the great D-Wade and now it's my job to win one with the great LeBron James. We have everything in place. We just got to get it done.

I'm getting older. I'm getting sexier. I'm getting meaner. I can still do what I do.

I don't have to shoot from more than two feet. I'm top 50. I've got 23,000 from where I shoot.

When I concentrate and focus, they always go in, so I'm gonna continue to do that, and they will go in.

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

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

I'm like President Bush. You may not like me, you may not respect me, but you voted me in.

I'm still the Dun Dada of all big men.

I'm known as The Big Baryshnikov.

The only demise of Shaquille O'Neal will be his age.

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 don't really consider myself one of those superstars. I just consider myself a guy that was lucky enough to win the athletic lottery many times over.

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

I knew Rick Pitino was going to make them play that outbreak, monkey defense. He's been doing it all his life.

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

Incense. Books. Just weird.

It's pretty much the same; it's just that Phil was very weird with his system. This is more of the traditional system.

I don't listen to people who can't do stuff that I do.

If you go around the league, anybody with the last name 'vich' is a great shooter. Radmanovic, Vujacic... all those 'iches.

I take that as an insult, even at 36.

A friend tweeted me with 'The Big Freeze.' I don't know about that one. I've got to go home, play around with the kids and figure something out. I'll have one.

You like that analogy? That was pretty good?

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'm playing like Eric Dampier.

Dampier is soft. Quote it, underline it, tape it and send it to him.