Nba Quotes - Page 34

• I was the bridge between the Michael Jordan era and LeBron James era.

  Allen Iverson

  Basketball, Bridges, Eras

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• It's easy to be a spokesman and ambassador for a great organization like the NBA. I thank Commissioner David Stern for putting that trust in me to serve the NBA around the globe.

  Dikembe Mutombo

  Organization, Ambassadors, Easy

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• I've always felt obligated to help those less fortunate than me. It's an obligation that anyone who has a chance to be in the NBA should feel and act upon.

  Dikembe Mutombo

  Helping, Chance, Should

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• When I travel around the globe, I try as hard as I can to represent the NBA and the game of basketball to the best of my abilities. I get to go around the world and not only share the game but also my philanthropic work. Building a hospital in the Congo is one of the proudest achievements of my life.

  Dikembe Mutombo

  Basketball, Games, Achievement

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• Free speech is against governments, not against the NBA. So the players and coaches and indeed owners have been fined for their speech, which is costly rather than free. I sort of acknowledge that there is not free speech when you agree to work in the NBA.

  David Stern

  Player, Government, Speech

  "Interview: NBA Commissioner David Stern discusses Dwight Howard, new CBA". Interview with Josh Robbins, www.orlandosentinel.com. January 21, 2012.

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• As a novelist, there are three phone calls you never expect to receive in your lifetime because if you waited for them you would grow despairing - one calling from Stockholm with a Swedish accent, one from the NBA, and one from Oprah Winfrey.

  Chris Bohjalian

  Phones, Phone Calls, Novelists

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• Kevin Garnett is the prototype for the NBA player of the future. He's already one of the greatest players to have played the game.

  Bill Walton

  Player, Games, Kevin

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• I've got extra motivation that I won't talk about right now.

  LeBron James

  Motivation, Extras, Right Now

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• You know the world is messed up when the tallest man in the NBA is Chinese, the best golfer is black, and the best rapper is white.

  Chris Rock

  Men, Rapper, White

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• It means I don't have to charter that big jet for the family.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Mean, Bigs

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• I just want everyone to know I'm suing Ruben Studdard. He had his hand on my ass and he wouldn't let go.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Letting Go, Hands

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• He's got a ring, so I'm taking home the trophy.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Home, Trophies

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• As a man, you got to know how to take it, so I just took it.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Men, Know How

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• Do we play Chicago again? I going to hit Othella Harrington right in the mouth. If he didn't have his clumsy ass on the floor, I wouldn't have fell. How he got on the ground, I don't know. He's clumsy. Quote me on that. I'm going to get him.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Play, Chicago

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• I'm playing like Eric Dampier.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Eric

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

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Tape

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• Flash, take the game off. I'll go out and do the work.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Games, Flash

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• He is an old glove, but he looked like the old Glove.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Gloves

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• It was a weird game. There was ugly shooting and a lot of turnovers and mistakes, and we were just fortunate to get the win. I should have done better, but it was just a very ugly and weird game... I knew the game was going to be an ugly game when I saw those three guys at the scorer's table. Ugly people call ugly games.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Mistake, Winning

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• I think he got an incidental elbow in the face, messed up his pretty red lips a little bit. But other than that he'll be fine.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Thinking, Elbows

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• I got it, I dove on the floor, he dove on my head and I hit my teeth on the ground. It was just one of my police reactions to get that criminal off me.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Police, Criminals

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• It's a different role for me, playing with the great Dwyane Wade.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Different, Roles

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• Now, the mistakes that I made with my other two sons, Penny and Kobe, I won't make with D-Wade. We can't let them break us up and we can't break each other up.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Mistake, Son

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• I don't believe in pressure. Pressure is when you don't know where your next meal is coming from.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Believe, Meals

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• We want you all to be in shape and look as good as me. Because I will be walking naked on the beach.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Beach, Naked

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