Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Vlade Divac

As athletes and pro sports franchises, we have the responsibility to use our platform to affect positive change in the community. I take it seriously.

I am not going to play basketball because I have to play. I am going to play for fun.

L.A. is very big and very nice city.

It's good for basketball to grow.

The fans really know basketball in Sacramento. They knew when we really needed their support and they were a big part of our success here.

The people of the Balkans are like a dysfunctional family. We may fight and argue, but in the end we are family.

Kobe made an impact on basketball in a big way. He came in the League when he was 17 years old, but he was working on his game every day... The way he played, people all around the world loved the passion that he put in for basketball.

I am thankful to the Kings organization, all the Kings fans, my family and all the people who supported me throughout my career.

We take life... we should take it more seriously, because you never know what's going to happen tomorrow.

People always said you shouldn't get in politics and talk about politics. But I believe the politics are all around us.

I came here and actually fell in love with Charlotte and the Hornets. That's exactly what happened to me. I found a new way of motivation. Charlotte basically extended my career for the next seven years. I was thinking of retiring. I was 30 and played seven more years after that, just because basketball felt different here in Charlotte.

I was taller than most of the kids. When I started playing basketball, my coach put me at point guard. Europeans do that sometimes.

Shaq wasn't talented - he was just strong. I was talented, but I wasn't strong.

That's what Europe brought to the NBA: the passing skills, the shooting skills.

I play my best when I'm enjoying myself. So whoever I play against, I try to have fun.

I believe that love gives you the freedom and power to share your best self and to inspire others.

When I decided to come to Sacramento, all my friends thought I was crazy. They said they still have cows and sheep around Arco.

Basketball gave me everything.

I'm sure my life after basketball is, hopefully, going to be even better.

When I used to play, I loved playing international because it's more freedom and more ability to improve.

Kobe's legacy is definitely one of the best players to play this game ever.

I played basketball because I loved the game. I played because I was making a lot of friends around the world... It's fun.

I like geography. I think I know every country in the world. If someone from another country plays for my team, I will know where he is from.

I left my home, and it was the most beautiful country in the world in my eyes, and I was always happy in the summertime to go back. And then suddenly, the civil war starts, and you just worry first about your family and friends, and then an entire nation.

People in the NBA, as far as Europeans or international players, they respect them now. I didn't have any respect from anybody. I had to earn my way.

To build a friendship takes so much time and so many years. To ruin it, just seconds.

Sacramento and the Kings organization were always in my thoughts and I often dreamed of having a role in helping our amazing fans realize the ultimate NBA prize.

To me, the game of basketball has always been about love.

Love liberates you and gives you the power to make the impossible possible.

The better team sometimes loses.

Jerry West really helped a lot, and so did players like Magic Johnson. That's why, at the end of my career, I wanted to finish my career with the Lakers.

Whatever you see in games, Kobe demands more in practice.

First of all, I would love to see people remember me as a good passer, not as a good flopper. But flopping was, in some period of my career, a part of my game, especially against Shaquille O'Neal. It was the only way I could try to stop him. And I did well, I guess.

It was a lovely story that I finished my career with Kobe, with somebody who I was traded for. I have a lot of respect for the guy. I think he's definitely, by far, the best talent that I ever, ever played with.

Basketball is like life and life is like basketball. It's just a game. So lets play the best we can while we are still here with love, compassion, selflessness fairplay and supporting each other to be bigger and better human beings.

When I came in the NBA, it was more a U.S. game. Now you can watch the NBA anywhere in the world.

I loved the fans here in Charlotte. They were very basketball-educated, very supportive of the team.

I just think positive and positive things usually happen.

I always think if you have friends, you have friends, and it doesn't matter where they are from.

Going to Charlotte and being there two years, I missed L.A., but it was good for me.

Sport has built me as a man and taught me not just to compete, but to lead the team as well.

The game of basketball brings people together. It really doesn't matter where you are coming from. It's a game all of us love.

I don't drive Yugo anymore, I drive Porsche.

Just like in life, when you play basketball, you have to give in order to receive. On the court, you're not only making things move along by giving the ball, but you're also giving your physical and mental strength, your passion, your talent, your trust in your teammates. This way the power can multiply and the whole team wins.

Throughout my professional basketball career, I have always voiced my patriotism for my native land.

Well, the league is changing every year. It changed when I came. It changed before me. First of all, we have to be thankful for all those guys in the '60s and '70s. They made this league one of the best sports leagues in the world.

If the NBA wants me to be somebody who can say, 'It is flop or not?' I'll do that for free. For fun.

I had a beautiful life as a basketball player.

It was my dream for a long time to play in the NBA. When I was drafted, it was a challenge for me. I decided to go and see where I was compared to the best players in the world.

Wins heal everything.

You have so many players all around the world in the NBA, a lot of different generations. If you don't take basketball as a tool in your life, you can get lost. I know a lot of teammates, a lot of players that had a great career and after that career, they just get lost.

I didn't like it in the beginning, but later on, if I was in Jerry West's shoes, I would do the same thing. I would trade myself for Kobe, no-brainer.

As in life, to be the best in basketball you can't put any limits on your existence.

Basketball is the opposite of selfishness, basketball is solely about giving and sharing and caring for one another.

In the early '80s there was a big gap between the NBA and the international game and when we started making our careers here in the NBA, obviously, we became better players. When we used to play each other on the international level, that gap became smaller and smaller.

I play for peace and love.

Winning begins with culture and character matters.

I think when you play with someone, you tend to pick up their game and try to develop something together.

We feel we are blessed by God. We have happy lives.

For a lot of Croats, if you're a Serb, they don't want to associate with you. It's just stupid.