Top 28 Salley Quotes
#1. I'm John Salley, and I'm a vegan. I'm a vegan because I'm only four pounds heaver than I was in 1989.
John Salley
#2. He keeps wishing for impossible things to happen. Like to see the stars while it's raining and for the person he loves to love him back.
Anonymous
#3. If you're a professional athlete, and after the game, you're eating at the same place that somebody in the audience is eating at? You're making a mistake.
John Salley
#4. You fouled a guy who needs to be fouled. If he's going to the basket, you don't give a knick-knack foul and then argue with the ref. You foul him so he knows, so the next guy coming behind him knows, so his team knows you can't go in the lane.
John Salley
#5. Beware, beware of those who care,' as some wise person said. Not that I'm suggesting there is anything wrong with caring. But as Granny Maud used to say, 'Fine words butter no parsnips,' and she might have added, 'Caring should be felt and not heard.
Salley Vickers
#6. To confer dignity, forgive. To express contempt, forget.
Mason Cooley
#7. I went into raw vegan for a while, but I prefer cooked food, the way it smells, the way it feels going through your system.
John Salley
#8. I'm a Michael Jordan fan just like everyone else. I just don't think he's the greatest player ever.
John Salley
#9. Yeah, well, when they say 'You know it's a long way, don't you?' what they really mean is: 'You know it'd be faster if you just rode a kangaroo, don't you?
Elle Lothlorien
#10. In 1981, when I went down to visit Georgia Tech, I watched Michael Jordan play and literally get ridiculed for taking a jump shot in the championship game that went off the backboard, and they won. People are forgetting that Michael was just one of the players when they went to the Dream Team.
John Salley
#11. There's no reason that America should be No. 1 in obesity; we have the greatest country in the world.
John Salley
#12. I was a vegetarian first. I had high blood pressure at 27, everybody in my family died of cancer, and I knew it was in the food, so I changed my diet.
John Salley
#13. The Abbe Paul looked at Agnes rather as Alain had, with respect. 'How sensible. People are desperate to probe mysteries which for the most part are best left unprobed. It is the modern curse: this demented drive to explain every blessed thing. Not everything can be explained. Nor should be, I think.
Salley Vickers
#14. I think the greatest player I've ever played against was Magic Johnson. Next, was Larry Bird. Then, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
John Salley
#15. I explain to athletes, you're supposed to be a well-oiled machine. You're supposed to be in better shape than the people watching you. You're supposed to be an unbelievable specimen of a human being. You have to treat your body different while you're performing.
John Salley
#16. Age and disease and death may destroy our physical being but it is other people who get inside us and damage our hearts and minds.
The Other Side of You
Salley Vickers
#17. Integrity - one word that means so much; costs so little yet makes a real difference in this world.
Salley Farquharson
#18. I want the public to know that it will be an honor for me to meet them and spend a few special moments with all those who helped me through my filmed career.
Tony Curtis
#19. Stories are all we humans have to make us immortal.
Salley Vickers
#20. We all long for someone with whom we are able to share our peculiar burdens of being alive.
Salley Vickers
#21. I know what it's like to scream when you see Justin Timberlake in person because I've done it.
Ross Mathews
#22. The hardest guy I had to guard: Hakeem Olajuwon. No one can guard Hakeem. And then, Kevin McHale.
John Salley
#23. I eat a lot of kale, and I drink about half a gallon to a gallon of water a day.
John Salley
#24. Full revelation, she couldn't help feeling, was something which was considered a virtue only among the reckless or the cruel.
Salley Vickers
#25. Any kind of blockage is heart disease; when you have a blood clot anywhere, that's heart disease. When Wilt Chamberlain died, strongest man I ever met in my life, I started paying attention.
John Salley
#26. No one asks the cow or the chicken where it gets its protein. I eat about 4,000 or 5,000 calories a day, and I cook for myself. I also have a line of cooks that work with me - some raw, some vegan.
John Salley
#27. The thing about the NBA, any pro sport, is, guys don't know how to take care of their body.
John Salley
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