Top 33 Lakers Basketball Quotes
#1. I have always wondered at the passion many people have to meet the celebrated. The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account
W. Somerset Maugham
#3. I have sometimes thought that the laws ought not to punish those actions of evil which are committed when the senses are steeped in intoxication.
Walt Whitman
#5. 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.
Shaquille O'Neal
#6. The Lakers fans have been great, even folks in the supermarket are welcoming me back!
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
#7. Originally I planned on starting a teapot collection. I really like them.
Billy Dee Williams
#8. I'm probably going to have to go with Kobester. He's an assassin with LeBron coming right after.
Shaquille O'Neal
#9. 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
#10. He's going to be what?! Oh for God's sake. Sir David Beckham? You're having a laugh. He's just a good footballer with a famous bird.
Ian Holloway
#11. The only other scenario that could explain everything, up to and including your own bizarre apperance, is a convoluted conspiracy theory involving the Russian Mafia and a crack team of plastic surgeons.
Eoin Colfer
#12. If you want to lead people, you have to let them come up close.
John C. Maxwell
#13. The LA Lakers are so good they could run a fast break with a medicine ball.
Rich Donnelly
#14. Very whitely still The lilies of our lives may reassure Their blossoms from their roots, accessible Alone to heavenly dews that drop not fewer; Growing straight out of man's reach, on the hill. God only, who made us rich, can make us poor.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
#16. I'm not going to try to go out there and outdo him. I don't have to try to outdo him, I'm Shaq.
Shaquille O'Neal
#17. The rivalry between the Lakers and Celtics endured for about eight years, and the interest grew each year.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
#18. With no other choices open to us, we'd turned our gaze seaward. The oceans were our America: they reached farther than any prairie, untamed as on the first day of creation. Nobody owned them.
Carsten Jensen
#20. The two top teams with nice weather and nice people were Dallas and Miami. Of course, the Lakers wouldn't want to trade me in the same conference, so Miami was perfect.
Shaquille O'Neal
#21. 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.
Shaquille O'Neal
#22. Kobe always tried to be a hero. But you know, as the saying goes, a hero ain't nothing but a sandwich.
Shaquille O'Neal
#23. I am interested in beauty when it has something special and mysterious.
Riccardo Tisci
#25. Basketball's eras are defined by teams - Celtics, Lakers, Bulls - and baseball's epochs are defined by players - Ruth, Robinson, Mantle - but with football, it's the sideline strategists, the nutty professors and top coated Lears.
J.R. Moehringer
#26. The painting develops before my eyes, unfolding its surprises as it progresses. It is this which gives me the sense of complete liberty, and for this reason I am incapable of forming a plan or making a sketch beforehand.
Yves Tanguy
#27. I deeply regret having let stand and later confirming the assumption that I went to Vietnam. For this and any other distortions about my personal life, I want to apologize to my family, friends, colleagues and students. Beyond that circle, however, I shall have no further comment.
Joseph J. Ellis
#28. The Lakers were able to maintain a certain level of talent and success, and so were the Celtics. It became part of people's sports lore.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
#29. The revolution of ages may bring round the same calamities; but ages may revolve without producing a Tacitus to describe them.
Edward Gibbon
#30. Actually, Magic and the Lakers beat Philadelphia for Magic's first NBA Championship.
Oscar Robertson
#31. it is difficult to solve a problem that you are almost entirely ignorant about. You cannot work for peace while ignoring violence any more than a doctor can create treatments while refusing to study disease.
Rory Miller
#32. He's a jokester, and that's funny, very funny. Ha-ha. Very funny.
Shaquille O'Neal
#33. Most ferocious was Kobe. Fiercest, most competitive, it was Kobe. D Wade is second after that.
Shaquille O'Neal