When stars try to speak...

freshie2 · Post #1 » by **freshie2** » Sat Aug 16, 2008 12:22 pm

NBATV has the 2001 Sixers Lakers finals on now (1 hour review) and it's quite invigorating to watch.

A few things about this series. Game 1 was amazing. I remembered how close they were early to steal another game if they only made a few chippies. Iverson was amazing that season. Brown is a fantastic coach.

The funny part, and I am not trying to bash Iverson as many athletes (humans in general) do this, but before game 2 they showed his pregame speach to the team. It went something like this...'as long as we do our best and get dirty and leave it on the court, when the game is over we can look at each other in the mirror.' I laughed b/c growing up, the mindset of being able to look at yourself in the mirror was often used to guide my actions. As a team, you wanted to be able to look each other in the eyes and feel good about your effort. Maybe this is Yoda-speak, and more of the reason why the 2001 team was magical...they used jedi motivational speeches to raise their performance??

Again, this wasn't an Iverson bash as I'm sure all of you can think of other times that someone famous totally botched something like this. Maybe that's why there are only so many historically great speakers/memorable phrases.

sixers_610 · Post #2 » by **sixers_610** » Sat Aug 16, 2008 1:59 pm

“We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees" Jason Kidd, upon being drafted by the Dallas Mavericks.

Post #3 » by **The Guilty Party** » Sat Aug 16, 2008 4:39 pm

Here are some fun quotes that I found.

"I'm the only stone cold mother****er in here. I'm the only one who wants the ball. I need to get more shots." -- Kurt Thomas, in a Knicks team meeting

"The Pistons, because when I was there they had that gay-ass horse on it." -- Scot Pollard, on which team had the best uniform redesign of recent years.

"I don't even think Yao Ming is worth a top-10 pick." -- Mark Cuban, on Finley-for-Yao trade rumors.

"It would be good to have him, but we're not going to miss him. We'll find the two or three points from somewhere else." -- Michael Finley, on losing Wang Zhi Zhi to the Clips.

And my favorite....

"The LA Clippers grabbed our Wang." -- Don Nelson.

Post #4 » by **The Guilty Party** » Sat Aug 16, 2008 4:44 pm

"I didn't even know Elvis was from Memphis, I thought he was from Tennessee"
- Drew Gooden

conspiritual · Post #5 » by **conspiritual** » Sun Aug 17, 2008 12:03 am

Here's some quotes from the great MJ. They might not be as funny as the other ones in this thread, since those are unintentional comedy which is the best kind of comedy. But these are still funny, and would sure as hell motivate me.

"You ever hear of a guy, six-eleven maybe and two hundred sixty pounds, a guy big and fat like that and he can't get but two rebounds, if that many, running all over the damn court and he gets two rebounds? Big guy like that and he gets one rebound. Can't even stick his **** into people and get more than that...Big, fat, fat guy. One rebound in three games. Power forward. Maybe they should call it powerless forward." - Michael ripping Stacey King a new one

"I hope there's a jumpshot in there." - Michael to Stacey King who was walking into the locker room with a box

"They don't need a ticket to watch you sitting on the bench. They can go to your house for that." - Michael to Charles Davis who was sorting through his tickets for his family and friends

"You're an idiot. You've screwed up every play we ever ran. You're too stupid to even remember the plays. We ought to get rid of you." - Michael to Horace Grant

"Will Vanderbilt. He doesn't deserve to be named after a Big Ten school." - Michael on Will Perdue

and my personal favorite...

"It's probably a twelve-day. He needs two days to wake up." - Michael on a ten-day contract teammate

sixerswillrule · Post #6 » by **sixerswillrule** » Sun Aug 17, 2008 2:46 am

Antoine Walker on why he shoots so many threes: "Because there aren't fours."

sixers_610 · Post #7 » by **sixers_610** » Sun Aug 17, 2008 1:01 pm

sixerswillrule wrote:Antoine Walker on why he shoots so many threes: "Because there aren't fours."

Ha. I was thinking about posting this one too.. one of my favorites, though it's not really "motivation"

freshie2 · Post #8 » by **freshie2** » Sun Aug 17, 2008 1:03 pm

Doesn't have to be motivation...if it's silly, write it in.

Those Jordan ones are great. Have to love Sprewell's 'feed the family' comments. Wonder if he wishes he signed that contract now!!

sixers_610 · Post #9 » by **sixers_610** » Sun Aug 17, 2008 4:12 pm

Really? You would have thought so by the title of this thread.