Author Profile
Charles Oakley
1963 • American • Athlete
60
Total Quotes
Collected Meditations
Showing 60 quotesA lot of guys do the pretty things. Dunking, tattoos, earrings, sagging jeans. That's the league now. They have athletic ability, but they don't know the game.— Charles Oakley
In the old days Michael Jordan and Larry Bird worked for everything they got. They worked hard on their game.— Charles Oakley
You can't say, 'You're a scorer, you score. You rebound, you rebound.' Basketball is more than that. Basketball is knowing the next step, knowing the next play, knowing how to make things happen.— Charles Oakley
David Stern is the mastermind behind a lot of stuff, he controls a lot of stuff, he dictates a lot of stuff so he's going to make himself look good.— Charles Oakley
When I first got into this league, I knew a lot. But I made myself better by listening and working hard.— Charles Oakley
I was in New York, I went to a Yankees game and I called and said, 'Can I get tickets to the Knicks game?' They said, 'We can't get you tickets no more to the Knicks game.'... They had tickets, but they said they didn't have no tickets for me.— Charles Oakley
I'm cool with whatever. I'll just keep eating my bread, sipping my soup and serving my time. But the chicken is going to lay some more eggs one day.— Charles Oakley