James Worthy Quotations

The P.A.S.T. preventative screening and treatment programs are a must for all players. We can extend our lives and live a healthy and pain free life. The programs are very comprehensive. We have lost several players at a young age, maybe the loss of some of our players could have been prevented with the prevention, knowledge, and treatment that P.A.S.T. provides.

The Hall of Fame has strong people.

I started getting letters from college in the tenth grade.

If you feel pain, you have to make up your mind whether you can play with it or not.

It's somewhat of a normal procedure sometimes when you have a knee drained... so long as it's not something you have to do every game.

I played basketball to try to get my parents from working so hard.

I get that same excitement as a fast break with Magic,

Hatred would be a strong word, ... We really respected each other. A lot of people didn't realize that the Lakers and the Celtics had the utmost respect for one another and probably feared each other the most. We knew we were equally talented and we knew that we balanced each other out on the floor, and there had to be an edge.

Knocking out the cobwebs that had been over L.A. and over the Great Western Forum and way back in the Sports Arena days when Jerry West and Elgin Baylor and Wilt Chamberlain never could overcome the Celtics - that probably was my fondest memory,

We had a chance to win Game Two with about six or seven seconds to go and we were under the Celtics' basket,

You have to totally drop your ego and start from scratch, and learn a new business,

It wasn't hatred, ... It was playoffs, time to focus on the Celtics, and I'm not going to be friendly until maybe I see you in the Bahamas in July and August and maybe we can catch up. That's just the way it was.

It's easy to get into business, ... It's much harder to stay and maintain.

In going from sports to business, you can bring some of the same principles. There's a lot of correlation between the two worlds.

I like the game the way it was, because there seemed to be a little more respect for your opponents and for your own teammates, ... The game was played, in my opinion, way differently - more as a team.

He (Pola) told me about his business and I was curious, ... I could see this was a great team.

You can practice against each other, but there's something about a game situation.