Charles Oakley Quotes

I play a complicated position in an intensely team-oriented game.

In football, it's the ultimate team sport. You have to have good people around you as a quarterback for things to happen.

I've been shooting the ball and running a little bit. It's just going out here now and forgetting that I've been out and try to get back in and make sure I know what's going on out there on the floor and that we're just not lost as a team.

Center is a very tough position to play.

It’s like volleyball. There are setters and spikers. The chief of staff is a setter, putting the ball in the air so the Senator can spike it.

You can't try a man-to-man if you don't practice it.

Sometimes my passes don't find people, but I do try and create.

I just love playing with point guards with high Iqs.

Your offense might not be great every game, but defense is just about working hard and outworking your opponents.

It doesn't matter what play is called, you have to run that play and you have to be successful on it. It just comes down to execution, all 11 players doing the right thing.

You're talking about defense and calling games and blocking balls, I'm going to be right there with anybody.

You work to make sure that, in the game, everybody knows where they're supposed to be at, and sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. But if you put them in a position to be successful, that's all you can ask for.

It's what you do on the court. Talking's easy.

People watch the points, they watch the highlights. But the defense I think helps the offense.

On the pitch, I conduct and organise. I'm loud.

If the right people do the right things, we can walk, we can have a future. But if people don't put time into it to make it run in a right way, I don't think your team will work.

My idea of managing is giving the ball to Tom Seaver and sitting down and watching him work.

Coach Skiles is tough. He's been my only coach in the NBA, so I'm used to it. His rules are a little different at times. At the end of the day, he just wants you to play hard defense, and you can't fault him for that.

Coaching is easy. Winning is the hard part.

Without the ball, you can't win.

Soccer is simple, but it is difficult to play simple.

I have unbelievable trust in my offensive line that they will get the job done. Not only them, but the running backs and as a quarterback, I have to do my job in getting the ball in the right people's hands and doing what I do best.

Every day, when I am working with my boys, I tell them as long as you put in your best efforts, I am there to back you. But the day I find your energy flagging on the field, the day I find you have not put in your best, that's when I will be really upset and sad.

It's not enough just being a good passer of the ball.

In any team sport, the best teams have consistency and chemistry.