Foul Trouble Quotes

First year in the league, I tried to block everything. And I'd foul out. I averaged the most fouls per minute.

Every team deals with obstacles throughout the course of the season, and it's as a unit that they need to be worked through. Injuries are part of the game, just like facing tough teams on the road or having one of your best players get into foul trouble.

I think coaches sometimes foul their own players out of game by benching them too long when in foul trouble

Getting on fast-breaks, you don't do that when you let a team shoot 20 free throws in one quarter.

If one of our players gets his second foul in the first half, then he must come out of the game and not re-enter until the second half. To play defense and not foul is an art that must be mastered if you are going to be successful.

Once the Hack-a-Shaq works once, you know I'm going to see it again. The only thing worse for basketball than that defense is the Lack-a-Shaq offense, where I have to go to the bench because of foul trouble. There is no fun in that.

I can speak volumes about the guy sitting next to me. You look at his stat line tonight, he had a lot of foul trouble and didn't really get going, but when he was in there, he was defending. He was playing physical, and he was doing everything he could to help us win.

I'm the first player in history that doesn't want to play defense and still gets in foul trouble.

I got into foul trouble, so I really kind of had to play on egg shells from there on out.

Not all players want to play defense. You get in foul trouble, you're going to be on the bench.