A Quote by Charles Oakley
Why complain to the NBA and to the officials all the time, just like Tyrone Hill, always complaining about me on the court?
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The phrase 'I just turn on my monkey and it makes me feel good' sounds very dirty, but I can't explain why. It's great to try to use expressions like that on the comics page. People want to complain but they can't, because they can't figure out quite what they should be complaining about.
You can always look back and see where you might have done something differently, changed this or that. If you can learn something, fine, but never second-guess yourself. It's wasted effort.... Does worrying about it, complaining about it, change it? Nope, it just wastes your time. And if you complain about it to other people, you're also wasting their time. Nothing is gained by wasting all of that time.
I met wonderful people playing in the NBA. Whether it is the officials, the scorekeepers, all the people who work for the NBA, not just for the Lakers, but I'm talking about just for the league itself.
When I'm on the court, I feel at peace, really. It feels like my home. I'm always thinking of something creative to do, like trick shots or something like that. It's just something about the basketball court that touches me; it makes me feel like nothing is wrong on the court.
But just like I've always said when people complain about tee times, 'I just want a tee time. Just give me one so I can play.'
But just like I've always said when people complain about tee times, 'I just want a tee time. Just give me one so I can play.
I struggle to see myself as Tyrone Mings the Ipswich footballer. I'm just Tyrone from Chippenham.
There are days that I wake up and I complain, and when I complain I pinch myself and say, 'that's for complaining.' Not many people can do what they really like in life.
To complain about critics in a business is like a sailor complaining about the waves. Go back to the beach if you don't like it.
Most people do not realize that as they continue to find things to complain about, they disallow their own physical well-being. Many do not realize that before they were complaining about an aching body or a chronic disease, they were complaining about many other things first. It does not matter if the object of your complaint is about someone you are angry with, behavior in others that you believe is wrong, or something wrong with your own physical body. Complaining is complaining, and it disallows improvement.
When politicians complain about the media, it strikes me as resembling footballers complaining about the umpire.
I won't complain about touring, because I really do believe that a public-figure musician complaining about being a public-figure musician is just absurd. Like, 'Boo hoo hoo! I have to stand on stage and people pay attention to me!'
That's typically what writers do; we just sit around complaining most of the time. And the better things are going, the more they complain.
It takes quite a bit of nerve for Democrats to complain about inflation. This reminds me of germs complaining about the disease.
Every time I'd ever stepped on a basketball court, AAU, middle school, high school, I always thought about the NBA.
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.
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