Quotes from Jermaine O'Neal

As an African-American athlete, you get discouraged that this type of thing is still condoned in people's lives. You look at a situation where we're good enough to work for you, but not good enough to be around you. To build a franchise, good enough to build business for you, but not good enough to mingle amongst your circles.

We can't control injuries and we can't control things like that. But physically, when it comes down to pure strength, quads, legs, core, upper body, I'm a whole lot stronger.

Le Jaunty offers a lot of different looks, so you can create who you want to be.

Not one team knew I struggled with that - not being able to pick up the phone and call my dad and ask him, Can you help me?' Or, Are you proud of me?' Or to cherish me being drafted or my kids being born.

Anytime you have issues with your heart, that's scary, but I've taken every test that you can take.

I've always played with an edge.

Some guys come in and they're super-humble and they get some success and then they change, everything changes. They become too big for other people.

One thing I can say - and anybody can say from any team I've ever played on - is that when I get out there I'm going to play as hard as I possibly can, whether it's on one leg or two legs or whatever.

The league is getting bigger; the names are getting bigger. The league is getting younger and I really think it has some legs to it.

I'm not in a position physically to take in five years of losses and downtime.

I'm a very emotional player. I use emotion because my team feeds off it.