Greg Oden quotes

Greg Oden quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“I know I'm one of the biggest busts in NBA history”
-- Greg Oden

Source : "Teaching Greg Oden How to Be a Benchwarmer". Interview with Mark Titus, grantland.com. May 8, 2014.

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“For starters, Portland isn't a great city to live in if you're a young, African American male with a lot of money,”
-- Greg Oden

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“To meditate on Scripture is to allow the truth of God's Word to move from head to heart. It is to so dwell upon a truth that it becomes part of our being.”
-- Greg Oden

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“We are living at a time when the Prostestant church is rediscovering the truth that transformation in Christ occurs through the disciplines of formation. Finally, Adele Calhoun has pulled all of these together into one volume, complete with clear definitions and practices of a variety of ways that God uses to grow our lives. No longer do you have to root through scattered pieces of paper, nor a chapter here and there to get the big picture of the tried and true disciplines. This is one resource you will want to have at your fingertips.”
-- Greg Oden

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“I thought we'd be discussing about me not leaving Philadelphia and they just kept asking me about the practice, so I lost it.”
“I wasn't a bad guy. I just wanted God to give me a second chance.”
“I don't want to be another Jordan, Magic, or Isiah. When my career is over, I want to be able to look in the mirror and say 'I did it my way'.”
“I am the MVP and I gotta worry about the trade talk.”
“My whole thing was, just being me. Now, you look around the NBA and all of them have tattoos, guys wearing cornrows. Now you see the police officers with the cornrows. I took a beating for those types of things.”

Source : "No more practice for A.I.: Allen Iverson says goodbye to Philadelphia" by Bryan Armen Graham, www.theguardian.com. October 31, 2013.
“I'm going to always be a Sixer til I die.”
“I was the bridge between the Michael Jordan era and LeBron James era.”
“I want to return to the NBA this season, and help any team that wants me, in any capacity that they feel that I can help. I'm disappointed.”
“Not a game, not a game... practice.”
“The American attitude is 'We're the best'. That's why the NBA guys who come from other countries, the Europeans, all sort of stick together away from the game.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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