Words matter. These are the best O. J. Mayo Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I’ve just learned that you can’t take this game for granted. You have to stay professional and stay focused and stay prepared to produce and continue to work hard. Nothing’s given.
Attending USC has been such a great experience for me and has really helped prepare me for my next step in life.
That was the lowest point in my entire life: The shellshock of not being in the NBA. All my peers are playing and I’m not because of boneheaded mistakes.
I try not to pay attention to all the hype.
In the barber shop you start playing checkers, and eventually you want to learn how to play chess. The pieces look a little more interesting. You’re doing more things. I’m pretty good at it.
I wanted to be here because Marquette is a good school. I like the fans. I like the community. But as far as someone to talk to, I didn’t know if I would have that here.
I’ve got a short memory span.
I make mistakes, but each and every day you want to try to better yourself to be a better person and learn from your mistakes.
I was the star of a film you don’t want to be the star in.
I really believe I can come in and contribute for any team possible.
Obviously a strength of mine is shooting.
Since I was like 6 or 7, I’ve always had a basketball season.
If you work hard, it’ll pay off sometimes.
Sometimes in the NBA, the schedule gets to be a lot with all these events, busses, planes and games. But once that’s gone, you miss it so bad.
I’ve just been eating, sleeping basketball.
It’s hard to get a rhythm when you don’t know what’s going to happen for you night in and night out.
Every man writes his manner. I just made poor decisions.
Taking the game away is probably the closest thing to jail that I’ll get to.
When you mess up, teams wonder whether they want to put their hands on you. I respect that. They can only go by a rap sheet or a resume.
I definitely feel like I can fulfill any role that a team needs me to fulfill.
It was a poor decision on my end to definitely disrespect the game. Poor decision of mine to misrepresent the Bucks, myself, my family, obviously my teammates.
I think it’s a great thing that players have to go to school for at least a year. I think it definitely helps you in the long run.
I need to work on timing and the pace of the game. I need to know when to slow it down and speed it up.
I was real close with Jason Kidd.
When you’re at home, you want to take care of home court.
I was telling some of my friends that I really wish college did pay because then you have an opportunity to have fun in college and enjoy college life and have a comfortable living.
At the end of the day, I just want to win.
It’s all about getting better. You don’t want a coach that says, ‘It’s all right, it’s all right,’ and it’s not all right.
If your shot is broke, you at least want to shoot it comfortably. You want to be comfortable shooting a broke shot. You don’t want to be uncomfortable shooting a broke shot.
I understand compliance and I understand the rules. Any meal, I wouldn’t pay for everybody but I would at least pay my end.
I just miss being around my mother. I’m her boy. I’m a momma’s boy.
I feel like the sky’s the limit, and anything could happen.
I was 19 before. I understand how you want to come in and do so many things on the positive side. You’re going to do some negative things because you don’t know yet; you’re still learning.
I’m not under any pressure. I’m just a kid having fun playing basketball.
I got into a fight in my 10th-grade year, and it was on ESPN. It was a mistake, and you learn from it. Starting from the seventh grade, everything’s been magnified like that. It’s kind of like you have no childhood.
