Earl Monroe Quotes

#1. Basketball for me has always been a matter of rhythm - what you do bouncing the ball, how you bounce the ball, how you run, how you receive the ball to be in rhythm.

Earl Monroe

#2. Baltimore was like a small town when I got there - the Colts, the Orioles, guys like Frank Robinson, we all knew and respected each other. Everyone would cross paths at one point at Lenny Moore's Sportsman's Lounge, trading stories and having some fun.

Earl Monroe

#3. Guys have to look up to somebody. Everybody needs to have their own role and somebody has to be the star.

Earl Monroe

#4. Jamal Crawford reminds me the most of myself, the way he goes to the basket. But they need leadership.

Earl Monroe

#5. Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don't rush. Be quick, but don't hurry.

Earl Monroe

#6. I have been involved in music since 1972 when I started managing two artists from The Jimi Hendrix Band. My family has been involved in music for years, so it's kind of in my blood. I just wish I could sing!

Earl Monroe

#7. You can hide as cleverly as you like, but in the final analysis mimicry is deception, pure and simple. It doesn't solve a thing.

Haruki Murakami

#8. Sport is the only profession I know of that when you retire you have to go to work.

Earl Monroe

#9. The game of basketball is one thing, but the image of the game is another thing.

Earl Monroe

#10. People who lusted after Marilyn Monroe had no idea she stuttered. It is the secret of her sexiness, actually.

James Earl Jones

#11. You forget love - though you fled from them, you secretly loved the monsters of your childhood ...

John Geddes

#12. Humans have been doin' awful things to each other throughout history. Humanity's not as great as you make it out to be. I do what needs to be done, and that's that. We're about to go to war, Earl. There ain't no humanity in war.

Michael Monroe

#13. Play the game with a smile.

Earl Monroe

#14. I can feel so bad about myself, especially if I start to pay attention to the kinds of stupid comments around the Internet.

Charlotte McKinney

#15. I was hungry, but I was nervous too. You were so new and I didn't want to frighten you away. I didn't want to frighten myself away.

Jeanette Winterson

#16. If queens did not exist, the poets would have had to invent them, so necessary as they are to a nation's glory.

Lise Arin

#17. Maybe someone will step up, but they don't have anyone right now.

Earl Monroe

#18. I started playing baseball and soccer. Those were my sports on the streets and in school when I was growing up. I didn't even start playing basketball until I was 14.

Earl Monroe

#19. I dislike the word 'self-help.' Self-awareness, yes, but not self-help.

Deepak Chopra

#20. One of my other nicknames was Thomas Edison, because I invented so many moves.

Earl Monroe

#21. I think Earl Scruggs playing propelled bluegrass and Bill Monroe's music to the level that - where we're all still talking about it.

Earl Scruggs

#22. The thought makes me reach back for my knife, my sharp, throat-cutting security blanket, as I look around.

Kendare Blake

#23. I think that any time you're able to get a guy like Carmelo Anthony to be on your team, you're going to be a step up.

Earl Monroe

#24. I'm a firm believer in everything going digital, in a matter of years. I wanted to kind of be one of the pioneers, one of the people that jump on that bandwagon early.

Joe Budden

#25. When people ask me what I miss most about the game, it's being in the locker room and getting to know the guys. Back in those days, we had roommates. We had to talk basketball and that was a great way to understand the game itself and form those lasting relationships.

Earl Monroe