Lakers Quotes

• I have worked out with the Thunder, Lakers, Knicks, Grizzlies, Spurs, and a few others before the draft. I have worked out primarily against shorter and supposedly faster players in these workouts.

  Jeremy Lin

  Workout, Player, Spurs

  Interview with Eric Guilleminault, www.nbadraft.net. June 16, 2010.

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• I had orders from the great Bill Russell. Me and him were talking in Seattle the other day, and he was telling me how rivalries should be. I asked him if he ever disliked anybody he played against, and he told me, 'No, never,' and he told me that I should shake Kobe Bryant's hand and let bygones be bygones and bury the hatchet.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Hands, Order

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• This summer is going to be a different summer for a lot of people. Everyone is going to take care of their own business and everyone is going to do what's best for them, including me.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Summer, People

  "Lakers Interviews after finals elimination". www.insidehoops.com. June 16, 2004.

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• If you've got a Corvette that runs into a brick wall, you know what's going to happen. He's a Corvette. I'm a brick wall.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Running, Wall

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  These young guys are playing checkers. I'm out there playing chess.

  Kobe Bryant

  Funny, Basketball, Sports

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• When I was 17, I was a Lakers Girl; I was the youngest girl on the squad.

  Moon Bloodgood

  Girl, Squad

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I mean, the Lakers are pretty damn Hollywood.

  Jerry Buss

  Mean, Hollywood, Damn

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• If you don't stick to simplicity, you'll die a horrible death.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Simplicity, Sticks

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• I'd like to think that the nature of the two teams - Boston being a championship team over the years and the Lakers, same thing - was a lot bigger than Larry Bird or Magic Johnson.

  Oscar Robertson

  Basketball, Team, Thinking

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• Yeah, I play a lot of their games. Going way back to Bulls vs. Lakers to the later Live stuff, I go at it quite a bit. More than anything tough, I play Madden.

  Jason Kidd

  Basketball, Games, Play

  Interview with Jeremy Dunham, www.ign.com. July 17, 2002.

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• I will never forget my humble beginnings as a Laker Girl. It was probably one of the most fun jobs I ever had.

  Paula Abdul

  Girl, Jobs, Fun

  FaceBook post by Paula Abdul from Oct 22, 2011

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• One of the biggest reasons I bought the Lakers was to beat the Celtics.

  Jerry Buss

  Reason, Beats

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• I am highly offended by the total lack of acknowledgement of my contribution to Laker success.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Offended You, Acknowledgement, Contribution

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• Christmas Day was special because everybody is watching at home. That's what I loved about Christmas Day because it shined the spotlight on the Lakers, on our team, and we knew that all of the other leagues were at home and millions of people were watching. So it made it a special day to play on Christmas.

  Magic Johnson

  Team, Home, Play

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• I have nothing but respect for the Lakers. So many of their legends shaped who I am as a person and player.

  Bill Walton

  Player, Who I Am, Legends

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• We survive our way through basketball hoping the #‎ Lakers will survive and we hope for the #‎ Kings and for the #‎ Ducks and we want them all to succeed but if you are a true fan and especially if you are a #‎ Dodgers fan deep down inside you are saying please get out of the way, get off the stage, here come the DODGERS!

  Vin Scully

  Basketball, Kings, Ducks

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• You've got to be a Lakers fan growing up in L.A. with all these championships.

  Akeem Ayers

  Growing Up, Fans, Championship

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• There's a tipping point that happens with soccer in which you just kinda get it. I was drawn to it because the best soccer teams play similarly to my favorite basketball teams - like the eighties Lakers or eighties Celtics - teams that emphasized teamwork over individualism and relied on passing as their biggest ongoing edge.

  Bill Simmons

  Basketball, Soccer, Teamwork

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• Let's put it in old movie Mafia terms. There are guys that are in position to get by but they didn't wait their turn. They back-doored the top guy to get the power. For example, Sonny Corleone went up there, and he wanted to be the top guy. And the Godfather said, 'You know what dude, I'm a star.' That's what I'm doing now, and that's what I was trying to do with what's-his-name.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Stars, Names

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• Anybody who doesn't think I want the Lakers to win is a fool. But I'm no homer.

  Chick Hearn

  Winning, Thinking, Want

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• 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.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Raised, Charades

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• Lakers are my boys! I'm 100 percent the biggest Kobe fan on the planet. I text him after every game to tell him what's up.

  Ryan Sheckler

  Boys, Games, Fans

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• I think people fail to realize that teams and organizations have been stacking teams since way back in the day. The Lakers had the Showtime era. Boston had six hall of famers on one team. You had Detroit, the New York Knicks, and now the Miami Heat. They were stacking their teams back then, it just fell off over the years and now it picked back up. Boston did it first, then LA. I was fortunate enough to play against them when they had Shaq, Kobe, Rick Fox, Gary Payton, Karl Malone... that's five hall of famers on one team! So you can't get mad at Miami for doing what they did.

  Carmelo Anthony

  New York, Team, Thinking

  "Talking with Our Mouths Full: Carmelo Anthony". Interview with Mark Anthony Green, www.gq.com. October 11, 2011.

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

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Eight, Years

  "America and Bryant braced for Shaq attack". www.theguardian.com. December 24, 2004.

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

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Buying

  "America and Bryant braced for Shaq attack". www.theguardian.com. December 24, 2004.

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