Basketball Players Say the Darndest Things:
"I'd never buy my girl a watch... she's already got a clock over the stove."
- Charles Barkley
"Sometimes I screw up in the game, I miss a shot or I miss a rebound, and I fight myself. I am like, 'Why I miss that shot? Come on, what are you doing?' I am fighting myself."
- Mehmet Okur.
"Oh...and you never like to see this."
- Marv Albert, when Rodney White vomited on the court at Madison Square Garden.
"Pressure? I make love to pressure."
- Stephen Jackson
"Who wants to sex Mutombo?"
- Dikembe Mutombo in college
"I will shoot all you Asian (bleeps) ... Do you remember the Vietnam War? I'll kill y'all just like that."
- Jason Williams to a fan of Asian descent sitting behind the Kings bench during a game at Golden State. Williams was fined $15,000 by the NBA.
"People touching me. On our team we got a lot of young guys and they always want to poke at you and tickle you and stuff and I really hate that."
- Eddy Curry on his pet peeves
"By the time we got [to Detroit], it was almost 2 in the morning, because ain't nothing open but hospitals, jails and legs."
- Jalen Rose
"Yes it was unanimous, 1 -0, and I won."
- NBA commissioner David Stern, after being asked whether the vote to suspend Ron Artest for the season was unanimous