100 Quotes by David Robinson

In some ways, you have to fail some. You have to figure that stuff out, because if I didn't have an Hakeem Olajuwon, would I have been able to achieve the heights that I did achieve? I don't think so. He pushed me, and I pushed him.

You give a team a month - three weeks - to get together, and you're going to make mistakes. You're just not going to be as sharp.

What's great is what Coach Popovich and R.C. Buford and the whole family have done a great job in continuing to build the franchise and still be very, very competitive.

Believe it or not, the Navy requires plebes to actually be able to swim.

Your grandfather is and will always be your hero, your inspiration. He fought in World War II, came home to Little Rock, Arkansas, and worked for 50 years as a mailman in the segregated south. Not once did he get a job promotion in five decades. But he kept working all the same.

My fouls used to be ticky-tacky, but I learned real fast to make them count.

Sometimes I feel like hitting somebody. You look at the refs and they say, 'We'll take care of it.' I think, 'Yeah? You won't take care of it the way I'd like to take care of it.'

I was always curious. I wanted to learn a little about a lot of things, and I really had to get pushed to achieve.

If you're a better scorer than me, I'll put you down on the block; you score. I don't care. I can do other things.