Quotes from Larry Johnson

But when a black player calls a white owner a slave master that's dangerous. It's one thing to say an owner is a good owner or a bad owner, but you have to be careful when you bring race into it.

I'm always on the players' side, of course. The owners are going to take their fill, but I'm always on the players' side.

When people talk to me, they want to know about Grandmama, they want to know about UNLV, and how was it playing with Muggsy. You don't have to be a basketball fan to be a Muggsy fan. The shortest guy to ever play in the league, I get that question all the time.

When you first come to a team, no one wants to come down and take three or four shots in a row. You want to pass the ball around and get the feel of each other.

If it's a nationally televised game in the past, and I've been scoring 6, 7 and 8 points, I feel like I had a bad game in my mind.

If I have to score baskets then I have to try to score baskets and stop missing shots, but even if it's not going, I need to be able to have another phase of the game and not let my offense take away from my defense or rebounds.

Charlie Ward was the best dude ever.

My main goal is to win me a championship.

In Charlotte, I thought we were on the right track. It didn't happen.

I play basketball because I like it, but the most important thing I want to do is help my family.

I feel I was born to play basketball.

We never played ball for money. We played because it was fun and I was good at it. But a lot of guys get paid big money to play this game, and I have a family I want to help out. But basketball will always be a game to me.

After a basketball game, you're gonna be physically tired, but more mentally. Playoff time comes around, you have it all in your head.

There's a roller coaster effect when you're playing good. Everything seems to go your way. But once you start playing bad, you're playing bad.

I have always wanted to spend my entire career in the Charlotte community and concentrate on bringing the city a championship.

No one man can rise above the masses or the condition of his people.

If I'm going to get suspended, I want to hit the guy.

Saw the best boxer, pound for pound: Roy Jones. Not a lot of hype, though.

I hope people understand that Jerry Tarkanian gave young black males a chance to better themselves and the lives of their families when no one else would. The way Coach talked to me, he spoke my language. I needed that type of voice in my life.

Most people lose weight during the season, but I tend to gain weight during the season.

I just have to keep working, just stay on top of my game, stay on top of my weight and stay prayed up.

I thought I was academically prepared for a major college, but I wasn't. Odessa gave me that preparation.

Maybe I'm a little biased, but I thought I could always play defense.

What I want to do for Mom - I want her to be able to understand that she can do anything she wants. I want her to be able to say, 'I've never been to so-and-so,' and go. She deserves that.