Vlade Divac Quotes

I feel like I'm going to get fouled a lot.

There could probably be a penalty called on every single play. So the refs have a tough job.

I'm very good at drawing fouls.

Officials called a foul; there's nothing you can do. A foul is a foul. If it was a hard foul, it was a hard foul. There is nothing you can do. So you just move on.

If you hit me, I'm gonna try to shoot the ball and get two free throws.

Tell them it was a foul.

The human element should be the two players on the court, not the officials. The best officials are the ones you never notice. The nature of the game made officials too noticeable a part.

Umpires sometimes have a quick trigger.

Well, I tried to play defense. But when they did call a foul on Shaq, I tried to make sure they called a foul.

This is the NBA. Everyone can score points.

The refs try their best. Sometimes they get it right. Sometimes they get it wrong.

Playing 'MyNBA2K' and 'NBA2K' is an essential part of my offseason and keeps me grounded during the season with all my travel.

OK, my funniest tech I ever got in the NBA was for looking at a ref.

In football, contact is normal, especially in England.

I'm a pretty good free-throw shooter, so getting fouled is a good thing.

If they're going to foul me, I'm going to step to the line and make some free throws.

We talkin' about practice?

I'd probably start charging for medical timeouts. I think we'd all see who really uses them and who doesn't.

The game honors toughness

The NBA's been around how long? A hundred years? Fifty years? So to change it now, whoever that person is needs his college degree revoked....Whoever did that needs to be fired. It was terrible, a terrible decision. Awful. I might get fined for saying that, but so what?

Referees and linesmen are killing teams.

I'm the best player in the NBA.

All I could think to say was, "The Lakers are my home team!

The thing I love about the NBA game is that it's a playmaker's league.

He loves basketball. And I said Obama loves basketball. Let's start there, all right. Start there.