Top 50 Larry Johnson Quotes

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I want to play 11, 12 years right here and then retire

I want to play 11, 12 years right here and then retire – and win us some national championships, and be the Michael Jordan of Charlotte. This is the place that drafted me, that paid me. This is the place I should be loyal to.
Larry Johnson
Hey, I’m just another guy coming out of JC. That’s the way I think of myself.
Larry Johnson
I can shoot turnarounds from almost halfcourt.
Larry Johnson
New York fans want a winner. They strive for a winner.
Larry Johnson
I can remember my jersey being the No. 1 seller for like two years, and I think it was the color of the jersey.
Larry Johnson
Most of the power forwards in the NBA are 6’10’, 6’11’, making it difficult for a player at 6’7′, 6’8′ to the play the position.
Larry Johnson
It’s hard to get guys going and get team morale up when you’re over there sitting in a coat and tie. But when you suit up and you go out there and battle with the guys, it’s easier.
Larry Johnson
No question, everybody knows my back was the main reason I retired.
Larry Johnson
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.
Larry Johnson
I used to run the streets, my mom used to be crying all the time, coming to get me out of the police station all the time. Sports took me off the street.
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I’m fond of New York, I’ve always been.
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I just don’t want my offense to carry over to my defense. I want to help the team win and be a team player.
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One of my goals is to get my degree, get my education and stay healthy.
Larry Johnson
Pippen’s best play is to get the ball to No. 23.
Larry Johnson
You got to take everything negative and turn it into a positive. That’s always worked for me.
Larry Johnson
I’ve turned down several assistant jobs in the NBA that I just didn’t feel good about. I would love it at UNLV.
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It’s important to get some balanced scoring on the floor. For me, I’ve got to make shots.
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Once your back’s up against the wall and you’ve been beat down, you start looking at trying to do the right thing.
Larry Johnson
If I’m going to get suspended, I want to hit the guy.
Larry Johnson
I feel I was born to play basketball.
Larry Johnson
There’s no place like New York. There’s nothing like the New York fans.
Larry Johnson
If I’m hurting the team with my play, then maybe I have to sit out a game. If I think I can be effective knowing what I can and can’t do, I’ll keep going at it.
Larry Johnson
When it comes to the younger generation, anything on the floor I’ll criticize – not playing hard, not doing this, fighting, not giving your all. Off the floor, you guys are on your own.
Larry Johnson
I’ve been in the frame of mind in Charlotte that, O.K., I’m going to play defense. But I’ve never been in a frame of mind that my defense is going to generate my offense.
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Most people lose weight during the season, but I tend to gain weight during the season.
Larry Johnson
When you think about the Knicks, you associate Patrick Ewing with the Knicks, you associate Walt Frazier with the Knicks. If I do all the right things and perform up to my capabilities, I hope you associate Larry Johnson with the Knicks someday, too.
Larry Johnson
Coach Tarkanian is a fighter.
Larry Johnson
What I hate more than sitting out is being on the floor and not being 100 percent. You know you can make this move, or guard this guy better, but something is hampering you from doing it, and in the NBA. finals I hate that more than sitting out.
Larry Johnson
For me to lose weight or maintain my weight is all about my diet, because I can come here and work two-and-a-half hours twice a day and if I get off my diet and eat like I normally eat, which is bad, I will gain weight.
Larry Johnson
It hurts to lose night after night.
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My plan is to go back to Dallas and build my house. I want a spread 50, 60 or 70 acres. ‘Cause Dallas is where everybody’s at’ that I can really relate to.
Larry Johnson
I thought I was academically prepared for a major colle

I thought I was academically prepared for a major college, but I wasn’t. Odessa gave me that preparation.
Larry Johnson
I think I’m caught up in playing in New York. Here, my mind is cluttered worrying about things.
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If I don’t like a person and a person doesn’t like me fine, that’s mutual respect.
Larry Johnson
If I’m on fire, don’t spit on me. I won’t spit on you. That’s respect. You go your way, and I’ll go mine.
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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.
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My main goal is to win me a championship.
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My personal goal was to get back to my true form, and my true form is an All-Star player.
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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.
Larry Johnson
This is a beautiful country, the best country, but it’s not holy, it’s not righteous.
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You can be totally focused on the game and all of a sudden at the Garden, you’ll snap and go, ‘Whoa!’ It’s super loud and you can’t help but take a second to admire what’s going on.
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In Charlotte, I thought we were on the right track. It didn’t happen.
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I’m an Oakley fan.
Larry Johnson
What I do in the off season that hurts me is I take a month off and I do nothing.
Larry Johnson
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.
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I picked it up just for relaxation. I can sit down and get into the game and escape that it’s a big game tomorrow, escape that we need a win, or whatever. My wife knows, after a game I get home at 12:30, I’m playing chess till 3 o’clock in the morning.
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JC was good for me. I had a coach who kept me into things and thinking positive. It was good basketball, but more than that it prepared me for the academic scene at a university.
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I don’t know nothing about the restaurant business, but I’ve been around a barber shop all my life. That’s where I used to get my dates in high school.
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I was a country boy from Texas and I love eating.
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That was fun with the Grandmama. But it’s something I can live without.
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