Danh ngôn của Jermaine O'Neal (Sứ mệnh: 5)

You see a lot of people in sports who need to be humbled first to become who they are.
Professional sports is a monster. It's not even real life. It's one of the few things in life, the economy goes bad, you still get your money.
I want to give myself the best chance to finish on my own terms.
Whether it's this year or next year, I don't want to leave basketball limping out of basketball. At the end of the day, we're all men and we all look at ourselves every morning and you have to ask yourself, Did I leave the way I wanted? Did I do everything I possibly could do to leave the way I want?'
We can't control injuries and we can't control things like that. But physically, when it comes down to pure strength, quads, legs, core, upper body, I'm a whole lot stronger.
When we can reach out as coaches and give back to these kids and touch them with the knowledge and with the thought process to give them the opportunity to do something that they dream about doing, that's what God put us here for.
I thought Portland had a really good chance. But after we didn't win it, I knew my time was up there. But it wasn't a totally bad situation for me there. It was a great situation coming out of high school.
I respect people's ability to come out and perform and take care of their family based on their bodies.
I'm continuing to figure it out every single year: Life is a challenge, and the ones that succeed in life are the tough-minded ones that are not willing to accept failure.