Odom Quotes

#1. You ever met one of those guys who, in a totally calm and composed way, can scare the shit out of you? Like an MMA fighter, or the fat Kardashian sister who married Lamar Odom?

Tucker Max

#2. I think a lot of the media love the game and hate the people who play it.

Lamar Odom

#3. I've always felt that I'm a natural leader.

Lamar Odom

#4. Death always seems to be around me.

Lamar Odom

#5. My grandma always said bad things don't last forever.

Lamar Odom

#6. The Lakers are family. My kids don't have to switch schools. Little things like that are important. People don't think about things like that. I feel like something special is going to happen in this town.

Lamar Odom

#7. Organizations are trying to save extra money. Players are trying to get extra money. That's the way it is.

Lamar Odom

#8. Remember when Jay-Z wore a Che Guevara T-shirt? Nobody knew who Che was. Then Jay-Z wears it, and it's everywhere.

Lamar Odom

#9. I've got a winner mentality, the mentality of a champion.

Lamar Odom

#10. While people out there on the spot certainly have to be held accountable for what they've done personally, the chain of command responsibility for this strikes me as just as important and should be dealt with.

William Odom

#11. One of the frustrations of having a mind trained to think and consider possibilities was that it couldn't simply be stopped once engaged.

Mel Odom

#12. Either you can do it or you can't. I think I can overcome anything I put my mind to.

Lamar Odom

#13. Idly, Wick wondered if he should feel insulted. Then he decided there really wasn't any room for considering an insult with all the fear running rampant in his mind. Maybe he was quiet on the outside, but he knew he was running around screaming inside his thoughts.

Mel Odom

#14. Most people don't want to get married. Being married, that's a responsibility.

Lamar Odom

#15. Where I'm from, you're a square if you go to church or if you decide to read the Koran or Bible.

Lamar Odom

#16. I don't think that the war serves U.S. interests. I think Osama bin Laden's interests and the Iranian interests are very much served by it, and it's becoming a huge drain on our resources both material and political.

William Odom

#17. I did some things I regret, and I know there are people who think they know me. I've heard the things they say, and some of them are hurtful.

Lamar Odom

#18. In World War II in Germany, we had a ration for one U.S. soldier, or one allied soldier for every twenty inhabitants. The ratio in Iraq is about one for a hundred and sixty.

William Odom

#19. I have never belonged to a party. I don't have party affiliation.

William Odom

#20. Firing off 1,000 or 500 or 2,000 nuclear warheads on a few minutes' consideration has always struck me as an absurd way to go to war.

William Odom

#21. People making it like I sit there and eat a whole plate of candy before I play a basketball game. I don't think anyone could do that.

Lamar Odom

#22. If I put my mind to something and really want it, I'll go after it and get it.

Lamar Odom

#23. I just try to focus on the basketball game and not get caught up in all the media.

Lamar Odom

#24. Me. I like to have fun. I'm like a kid in a candy story out there.

Lamar Odom

#25. But I would make it unambiguously clear that we are going to withdraw, and if Iraq falls into civil war and if all these unhappy things occur, we're just going to have to accept them.

William Odom

#26. So the idea that you could put Kurds, Shiite Arabs, and Sunni Arabs in a nice, liberal, federal system in Iraq in a short amount of time, six months or a year, boggles the mind.

William Odom

#27. In New York, the dunk is not the thing. To break somebody down and shoot a J-that's as big as a dunk in New York.

Lamar Odom

#28. Lamar is just Lamar. My teammates probably can explain that a little better than I can. If I just go out there and do what I do and be myself, it shouldn't be a problem.

Lamar Odom

#29. My grandmother was always upbeat, a naturally happy person. I think I got that from her.

Lamar Odom

#30. I'm going to say my favorite thing is to eat salads, and I'll be like the altar boy.

Lamar Odom

#31. Acts of terror have never brought down liberal democracies. Acts of parliament have closed a few.

William Eldridge Odom

#32. Second, recent polls over there show that the majority of Iraqis want us to leave precipitously.

William Odom

#33. We all have regrets, but the thing is to learn from life.

Lamar Odom

#34. I was going to fight for what I wanted first, and that was being in L.A. and being a Laker. L.A. was the first place that came to my mind. That's where my heart was at.

Lamar Odom

#35. As many critics have pointed, out, terrorism is not an enemy. It is a tactic. Because the United States itself has a long record of supporting terrorists and using terrorist tactics, the slogans of today's war on terrorism merely makes the United States look hypocritical to the rest of the world.

William Eldridge Odom

#36. The truth is everything in the end. It is the greatest power in the world to make all people equal. If everyone knows what the truth is, no one can use lies to separate those people and turn them against one another.

Mel Odom

#37. The Lone Ranger is going to be one of those iconic characters that never rides off into the sunset. We need heroes like him - an underdog who fights the good fight, doesn't kill, and has some serious mojo when the chips are down.

Mel Odom

#38. It takes real planning to organize this kind of chaos.

Mel Odom

#39. A little adversity can't hold me down.

Lamar Odom

#40. I don't think nobody's doubting I can play basketball.

Lamar Odom

#41. If your dad always has candy, how cool is he? Coolest dude in the world. My kids think I'm cool.

Lamar Odom

#42. I had a blast writing the Ranger in 'The Great Dinosaur Rush' for the Moonstone collection. The story turned out to be twice as long as it was supposed to be, but I was having fun. I even showed the Ranger in his 'old prospector' disguise, and I had some nice exchanges between the Ranger and Tonto.

Mel Odom

#43. I don't want a girlfriend because that means I've got a responsibility. I have a responsibility to call you. I have a responsibility not to be with another woman. I have a responsibility to be there on time when you need me.

Lamar Odom

#44. In reality, I don't think that many of the policies we've attempted to apply to deal with it are going to have any serious effect.

William Eldridge Odom

#45. Does any Watcher ever know that he is suddenly watching the Slayer until that moment is announced to him?

Mel Odom

#46. Sarcasm, as it turned out
even when it was instinctive and quick
cut into the time one had to manufacture one's escape.

Mel Odom

#47. When I'm on the court, it's like I'm in heaven.

Lamar Odom

#48. I think it's better to be a legend while ye're alive to enjoy it.

Mel Odom

#49. I will make a general statement that we have not had anything like the policy of holding people in high office responsible for their acts that I think we should.

William Odom

#50. To say that you now trust the Russian military command and control system because some Russian general told you from the bottom of his heart that's the case, strikes me as most unrealistic.

William Odom

#51. In fact, it struck me when we invaded last year that if we did it without European and East Asian support, we were risking losing our alliance in Europe in exchange for Iraq, and that is a very undesirable exchange.

William Odom

#52. I'm a role model. I have overcome the negativity, and I'm playing.

Lamar Odom

#53. He hated sounding guilty. Terrible things always followed.

Mel Odom

#54. Therefore, once U.S. forces leave, it is almost inevitable that an anti-Western, anti-U.S. regime will arise.

William Odom

#55. I'm always going to be under a microscope, and I haven't always handled it well.

Lamar Odom

#56. Once we destroyed the Saddam regime, we knew there was going to be a civil war.

William Odom

#57. I'm just a basketball player, you know? Just put me where you need me.

Lamar Odom

#58. I've always been taught to care what other people think. My grandmother and mother taught me to project a positive image of myself.

Lamar Odom

#59. The Mavericks and I have mutually agreed that it's in the best interest of both parties for me to step away from the team.

Lamar Odom

#60. We need to go to the niceties of approaching the U. N. and let them have a chance to take it over, but we should set some sort of date and begin to move out and leave it to whoever takes over.

William Odom

#61. I've decided that the political context is such that the only way reform will finally come about in the Russian military is that the deterioration goes beyond the point to which these old generals can stand up there and resist it.

William Odom

#62. I think it's easy for people to say, 'Because you do this, you must be this kind of person, vain or uptight or mean to people.' People have a sense of who you may be because of the job you do. That's unfair judgment.

Lamar Odom

#63. The Lakers have been nothing but great to me, and I want to keep the relationship great.

Lamar Odom

#64. The whole notion of land property rights in the Arab world is different from that in Europe.

William Odom

#65. Another thing: if you should decide you must kill me before you talk to [ ... ], do not do it while we are still inside the inn. You will need help to get out.

Mel Odom

#66. It was, however, in the interest of Osama bin Laden for us to destroy a secular Arab leader; it was very much in the interest of the Iranians because they wanted revenge against Saddam Hussein for Iraq's invasion in 1980.

William Odom

#67. I shudder to think of an eternity spend without books. I have hopes that every book that was ever lost is somewhere waiting for me when my life here finally ends.

Mel Odom

#68. You want to remain hungry and stay in a good place as a competitor; at the same time, you want to be confident but not cocky. You have to realize that you can lose. We have to stay hungry, because losing is the worst thing that can happen now. That's a road we don't want to go down.

Lamar Odom

#69. It was not in our interest to enter Iraq in the first place.

William Odom

#70. Negative publicity makes people forget your best times.

Lamar Odom

#71. For years I've been seeing my young brothers wearing Scarface T-shirts, John Gotti T-shirts, Rick James T-shirts. We don't have any icons or idols to look up to, just rappers and professional athletes.

Lamar Odom

#72. Sometimes I still don't know if I'm prepared to go through the entire season, dealing with the different personalities, the crowds, the politics.

Lamar Odom

#73. We're all products of our environment. The key is not to fall.

Lamar Odom

#74. The thing I love about the NBA game is that it's a playmaker's league.

Lamar Odom

#75. It's good that I put my personal ego aside. My basketball ego was, 'Why we negotiating?' But my personal ego didn't take it personal. I put my personal ego aside a little bit.

Lamar Odom

#76. My mother and grandmother raised me. Queens raised me.

Lamar Odom

#77. I have candy around my bed. I just kinda like reach over and eat it and then go back to sleep, no problem.

Lamar Odom

#78. You've got to play with pride and guts.

Lamar Odom

#79. Being humbled has been a part of my life for a long time.

Lamar Odom

#80. There was a possibility I could have been out of the NBA. It's taught me something that was a little deeper than basketball. I'm talking about life decisions.

Lamar Odom

#81. When I had to bury my child, I probably didn't start grieving until a year and a half later.

Lamar Odom

#82. The young men in the inner city are without guidance, robbing and shooting each other with no remorse ... Our system is crazy because we're planning to fail. Everybody needs something to grasp on to.

Lamar Odom

#83. I'm one of those players that I think I can do what's asked of me. Whether it's putting the ball in the basket, rebounding the ball, diving on the floor, making other people better, I'm willing to do anything just to win.

Lamar Odom

#84. There's pressure every night to be the best on the court. I put a lot of pressure on myself. Pressure is part of the game. It is also part of life. I want to prove I can do the work and be a success off the court as well as on it.

Lamar Odom

#85. I remember serving in Vietnam in that war, and many of us at the major Lieutenant Colonel, colonel level were frustrated that no one in the U.S. wanted to debate it that way.

William Odom

#86. Military officers from different countries, when they meet each other, tend to sort of fall in love, become mutual admiration societies, at the expense of realities.

William Odom

#87. He had fought wizards (though not because he wished to), battled goblinkin (only because running hadn't been an option at the time), and faced incredible monsters (drat the luck he sometimes had when he thought about it).

Mel Odom

#88. You walk in our locker room and you see Pau Gasol, you see Andrew Bynum, you see Kobe, you see Ron Artest ... we have so many players that can play.

Lamar Odom

#89. The presidents I served under don't have anything to do with my politics.

William Odom

#90. Respect goes a long way when you carry yourself a certain way and show manners when you first meet someone. If you do that, then it's hard for somebody not to like you.

Lamar Odom

#91. People have always told me, 'Yo, you're too unselfish. Shoot more.'

Lamar Odom

#92. People tell me that I'm always smilin' on the court. I don't think about it. I just get emotional out there.

Lamar Odom

#93. We've already seen proliferation. We started it with Britain, then France. Then we benignly let the Israelis do it. The Pakistanis and the Indians have recently done it. The Chinese have nuclear weapons.

William Odom

#94. Also, General Zinni, who commanded central command, was very much opposed to the war in the first place, as I was. We were both quoted to that effect in February of 2003.

William Odom

#95. Secrets are such hard things to manage whwn you're not the only one who knows.

Mel Odom

#96. People who know me now can't believe I used to be shy, but in some ways I still am.

Mel Odom

#97. Perception rules the world. Everyone knows that. Where we live and where we're from, you just can't escape it.

Lamar Odom