Robert Parish Quotes

The NBA wasn't a big deal at that time, so it wasn't really in my career plans.

There are 30 great jobs in the NBA, and I've got one of them.

The NBA has made it clear they want fan bases to be able to keep their teams.

Every kid who just played basketball knew about the Boston Celtics. They're one of the few teams who were always on national TV along with the Lakers.

If you look at the NBA, it's the richest and wealthiest group of African-American men in the world.

I grew up a Lakers and a Clippers fan.

Of course, in college, you're traveling, especially when you're with Duke basketball, but in the NBA, it's on a whole entire level.

The Energy job was probably the key. It kind of transitioned me back into the States. It gave me a link to the NBA. And I got to make some contacts and meet some players and get players set up and learn the NBA game and terminology and coaching those type of players. It was certainly a huge, huge key to getting to the NBA.

There's been a thing with Detroit and the Bulls ever since I've been in the league.

He shouldn't have been in the NBA, but we were too cheap to pay for a point guard.

So that's the telephone? They ring, and you run.

Trying to make the NBA is one of the very few areas where a Harvard degree won't necessarily help.

I've always been interested in jobs in the NBA. But I've been in this for 20 years and it might be time to do something else.

[The NBA] used to be a small band of basketball groupies. Now there are a lot more corporate-type people working in the league.

Surely silence can sometimes be the most eloquent reply.

Isn't it amazing how much better you listen when you are in need?

Pardon me, but there’s someone on the phone who says they have a call for you.” There’s a call to tell me I have a call?” he asked with heavy skepticism.

The parrots are great. They do something I refer to as "the Phone Call from Venus." They repeat all my phone conversations. It can very annoying - like having a lot of children in the house screaming.

You pick up the phone and you talk to somebody. There's a voice on the other end and you say what you have to say. This is how I perceive my life. I don't see myself as "Oh, I'm doing this great thing because I'm going to give this talk, now everybody's going to be transformed."

To refuse to respond is in itself a response.

If you say hard things you must expect to hear them in return.

The NBA is never just a business. It's always business. It's always personal. All good businesses are personal. The best businesses are very personal.

If a man takes off his sunglasses I can hear him better.

The only reason a man doesn't call is that he doesn't want to.

We should have a conversation when we hang up.