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Quotes About Big men

Its big men are mostly little men with fancy offices and a lot of money. A great many of them are stupid little men, with reach-me-down brains, small-town arrogance and a sort of animal knack of smelling out the taste of the stupidest part of the public. They have played in luck so long that they have come to mistake luck for enlightenment. - on Hollywood
~ Raymond Chandler
This is the sort of situation I enjoy: a game in the San Siro, a huge crowd and a night for big men. Remember, only victory is beautiful.
~ Marcel Desailly
Just seeing the progression, the evolution of the NBA game, I feel like you have a lot of big men shooting 3s.
~ Al Horford
Beer commercials usually show big men doing manly things, "You just killed a small animal: It's time for a lite beer." Why not a realistic beer commercial? "It's five o'clock in the morning, you've just pissed in a Dumpster: It's Miller time!"
~ Robin Williams
I think everything works in cycles. I was fortunate enough to come along in the golden age for big men. There were guys like Hakeem Olajuwon and Patrick Ewing.
~ David Robinson
You're going to have more skilled and more talented big men and you're going to have guards who will similarly adjust by pulling up from half-court, like the Ball brothers at UCLA. It's really interesting the way the game is going to evolve.
~ Robin Lopez
I think it's not just me. I think there is a lot of guys in the NBA that - just kind of big men in the NBA that can affect the game in so many ways.
~ Nikola Jokic
Ninety percent of the coaches in the NBA are guards, and there aren't very many big men people coaching, I happen to be one of them and when I coached, everybody on my team, including the guards, had a hook shot, so that it was their bail out shot.
~ Tom Heinsohn
For as long as I remember, big men have dominated the NBA.
~ Jahlil Okafor
the foreign policy of any government [...] is a prolongation of its domestic policy. This is all to often forgotten in a period of 'summit' meetings, when the public is led to believe that three or four Big Men solve, or fail to solve, the world's predicaments according to whether they have or do not have the wisdom, the good will, or the magic wand needed for their task.
~ Isaac Deutscher