Quotes by O. J. Mayo - Page 1

I've got a short memory span.
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Short Memory
Span
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I signed my first autograph when I was 11.
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Autograph
Signed
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I try not to pay attention to all the hype.
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Hype
Pay Attention
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I've just been eating, sleeping basketball.
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Sleeping
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I really try to handle my business on the floor.
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Handle
Floor
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Every man writes his manner. I just made poor decisions.
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Every Man
Manner
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I feel like the sky's the limit, and anything could happen.
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Sky
Limit
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I just miss being around my mother. I'm her boy. I'm a momma's boy.
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Momma
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I really believe I can come in and contribute for any team possible.
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Contribute
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I'm not under any pressure. I'm just a kid having fun playing basketball.
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Having Fun
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I was a struggling college student like everyone else. I bicycled to class.
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College Student
Everyone Else
Struggling
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Taking the game away is probably the closest thing to jail that I'll get to.
O. J. Mayo /
Closest
Jail
Closest Thing
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I definitely feel like I can fulfill any role that a team needs me to fulfill.
O. J. Mayo /
Me Feel I Can
Fulfill
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When you're on campus, you go through a lot of hard times and you need someone to talk to.
O. J. Mayo /
Campus
Hard Times
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When you've got guys touching the ball on the offensive end, they're really into the defensive end.
O. J. Mayo /
Offensive
Touching
Ball
Defensive
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I am focusing on the process of making my dream come true, which is to play professional basketball.
O. J. Mayo /
Basketball
Focusing
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It's hard to get a rhythm when you don't know what's going to happen for you night in and night out.
O. J. Mayo /
Rhythm
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I need to work on timing and the pace of the game. I need to know when to slow it down and speed it up.
O. J. Mayo /
Pace
Speed
Timing
Slow
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I knew guys in my neighborhood who should have made it somewhere but got stuck. I wasn't raised like that.
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Neighborhood
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Attending USC has been such a great experience for me and has really helped prepare me for my next step in life.
O. J. Mayo /
Attending
Usc
Life Experience Great
Great Experience
Helped
Next Step
Prepare
Step
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It's all about getting better. You don't want a coach that says, 'It's all right, it's all right,' and it's not all right.
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Getting Better
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I understand compliance and I understand the rules. Any meal, I wouldn't pay for everybody but I would at least pay my end.
O. J. Mayo /
Compliance
Rules
Meal
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It's tough to get any win in the NBA, but when you're at home it gives you a push to get that win with your crowd behind you.
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Nba
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I make mistakes, but each and every day you want to try to better yourself to be a better person and learn from your mistakes.
O. J. Mayo /
Better Person
Yourself Your Better
Mistakes
Yourself Day Better
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Magic Johnson didn't play the style that Larry Bird did, and Michael Jordan sure didn't play the style that Magic or Bird played.
O. J. Mayo /
Bird
Johnson
Jordan
Larry
Magic
Played
Michael
Magic Johnson
Michael Jordan
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I think it's a great thing that players have to go to school for at least a year. I think it definitely helps you in the long run.
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Great Thing
Long Run
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When you mess up, teams wonder whether they want to put their hands on you. I respect that. They can only go by a rap sheet or a resume.
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Mess
Resume
Sheet
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Sometimes you may not study and get a little worried, but playing under a coach like J-Kidd, I felt super-prepared, just learning from him.
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Study
Worried
Coach
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Sometimes in the NBA, the schedule gets to be a lot with all these events, busses, planes and games. But once that's gone, you miss it so bad.
O. J. Mayo /
Games
Nba
Planes
Miss
Gets
Schedule
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Not too many guys can say their career was always on the up. You just endure it and continue to work hard, continue to try to be a better player.
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Endure
Work Always Better
Better Player
Work Better Always
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That was the lowest point in my entire life: The shellshock of not being in the NBA. All my peers are playing and I'm not because of boneheaded mistakes.
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Lowest
Nba
Peers
Mistakes
Entire
Entire Life
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I apologies to my fans, teammates and the Grizzlies organization for regrettably not doing the necessary research about what supplements I can put in my body.
O. J. Mayo /
Supplements
Teammates
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It was a poor decision on my end to definitely disrespect the game. Poor decision of mine to misrepresent the Bucks, myself, my family, obviously my teammates.
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Bucks
Disrespect
Teammates
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I had no idea that the over-the-counter supplement that I took was a substance banned by the NBA. It was an honest mistake, but I take full responsibility for my actions.
O. J. Mayo /
Banned
Nba
Substance
Supplement
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If your shot is broke, you at least want to shoot it comfortably. You want to be comfortable shooting a broke shot. You don't want to be uncomfortable shooting a broke shot.
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Broke
Shooting
Uncomfortable
Shot
Comfortably
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You don't want to be ball chasing or really forcing the issue because that looks bad. You've got to just take what they give you and have an opportunity to knock down some shots.
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Chasing
Ball
Forcing
Issue
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I've just learned that you can't take this game for granted. You have to stay professional and stay focused and stay prepared to produce and continue to work hard. Nothing's given.
O. J. Mayo /
Granted
Stay Focused
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I was telling some of my friends that I really wish college did pay because then you have an opportunity to have fun in college and enjoy college life and have a comfortable living.
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College Life
Have Fun
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In the barber shop you start playing checkers, and eventually you want to learn how to play chess. The pieces look a little more interesting. You're doing more things. I'm pretty good at it.
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Checkers
Chess
Interesting
Good Start Look
Barber
Shop
Pretty Good
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A lot of people who went to SC didn't play ball - people who do films, lawyers and doctors, people who do things in real estate and business. There's a lot of people that make things happen out here.
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Doctors
Things Happen
Business People Real
Estate
Lawyers
Out Here
Real Estate
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There are just so many substances that are considered banned substances because in some way it could help your performance on the court. As athletes, we should be responsible for what we put in our bodies.
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Banned
Athletes
Bodies
Way Help Your
Substances
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I did a paper on why is race so uncomfortable to discuss. Is it because you don't want to bring up bad history in America? You want to be conscious of whatever you say about that because it's a serious point.
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Conscious
Paper
Race
Serious
Uncomfortable
Discuss
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I'm just looking forward to going out there and getting the opportunity to show that I'm a starting guard in this league and I can compete with the other starting guards in this league and compete at a high level.
O. J. Mayo /
High Level
League
Looking Forward
Compete
Forward
Guard
Just Looking
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I got into a fight in my 10th-grade year, and it was on ESPN. It was a mistake, and you learn from it. Starting from the seventh grade, everything's been magnified like that. It's kind of like you have no childhood.
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Childhood
Espn
Mistake
Grade
Magnified
Seventh
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If you rode to my mother's house, it's still a two-bedroom house, one floor. She still drives the same Toyota Corolla that she drove for the last three years and is still trying to meet ends. So for them to say I received $30,000 or whatever the case is, I definitely don't think that's enough to sell out myself and my family.
O. J. Mayo /
Toyota
Drives
Floor
Received
Rode
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