Quotes from Greg Oden

My favorite player, growing up, was David Robinson. He was really the first person that I actually knew about and actually watched.

Everybody would love to be able to be great and make it to the NBA All-Star Game as a rookie. I mean, that is everybody's goal.

I was a professional rehab/workout guy for four years. I wasn't even a basketball player - just a guy who got paid to exercise.

My mental state is perfectly fine.

Me and my brother used to love when my dad walked in with a pizza. We used to watch Nickelodeon every Saturday night. That was, like, the greatest time ever.

I do like to go bowling a lot.

I Bust-A-Move! Old-school style too: like, I'll bust a Robot out in a second.

If you're out there, and you can't do it, that makes you a bust. Well, I was never really out there. I was never Greg Oden in the NBA.

I'd be lying if I said that it didn't suck to see Durant doing so well.

That's the worst part about all of the injuries and the criticism. It would be one thing if I had been healthy for five years and just sucked when I was on the court. But I can't prove what I can do because I can't stay healthy. Not having control over the situation makes it tough.

It's homework. It sucks.

I've got to warm up to warm up and then play. I understand that now.

It doesn't say how much you played on your championship ring.

I don't want to be one of those guys who is just there. I want to be a guy that's on a team that makes it and be an All-Star and has a chance to always win an NBA championship.

To meditate on Scripture is to allow the truth of God's Word to move from head to heart. It is to so dwell upon a truth that it becomes part of our being.

I know I'm one of the biggest busts in NBA history...

In the media, from the little bit that I have read... there's not a lot of pity. There are some people, usually older people who have been around or people who really know basketball. Other people in the media are usually like, 'Well, stop getting injured.' You know, like I can control it.

I don't want to get dunked on too much, and I want to make it to the playoffs.

When I was in Portland, there were some dark times for me.

I just realized that basketball and going to the NBA was a possibility, and that's something that I want to use to better my family and possibly help the world if I can.

Like I would love to be a ladies man, but it's like... uh, you're seven feet tall, and you need to shave!

When I was out there on the floor, I think I did pretty good for myself... I've never really had enough time to play and actually improve.

I'll know that when I play a good game, a decent game, and I know when I can play a lot better and aggressive, when I can take over a game myself.

It wasn't like I was clinically depressed, but I was so down. I think I was probably depressed. Nothing went my way since college, and I put my head down and kind of pitied myself. That wasn't the right way to go.