Quotes from 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.

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.

Some guys get by on natural athletic ability. And then when they reach a certain point, they got to put in the time before and after practice and in the off-season.

I guess I'm going to have to go Google myself and see why people think I shouldn't be coaching.

Most coaches are mostly small guards because they think guards have more knowledge.

I'm not the kind of guy you threaten.

In Chicago, they wanted Michael to do his thing and me to be just rebound. I'm more than a rebounder.

Every headline in the paper, I don't write them. My story's inside the paper, not the headline.

In the old days Michael Jordan and Larry Bird worked for everything they got. They worked hard on their game.

When I first got into this league, I knew a lot. But I made myself better by listening and working hard.

Your offense might not be great every game, but defense is just about working hard and outworking your opponents.

I'm like a toll booth. Sooner or later, you have to come to me.

You can't throw a hook on the side of the road and expect to catch a fish in the grass.

They told me many times throughout my career to bite my tongue and I told them my tongue's been bleeding since I was born.

I just tried to go out there and play with attitude, doing what I was supposed to do and knowing my role on the team. Doing what my team expected me to do every night, not just once a week. It was all about work and I was just a tough guy who would knock somebody down.

One of the things about the NBA is anybody could be traded.

You can't shut somebody up by losing.

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.

I shoot five or six times, go out and play defense and make sure everything is clicking. I'm like a transmission in a car. You can't see me, but I make the car go.

A shirt look good when you iron it but if you iron too much, it gonna get burned.

If you're out after 6 o'clock, have a jacket on, because you might go somewhere. People say, 'Oh, I ain't dressed for it.' But if you have a jacket on, you can go anywhere.

I'm just a piece of the pie, a slice of the pound cake.

Knicks fans are the smartest in the world and they know you can't just play one end of the court.

If you see a man kiss me, I better be in my casket.