Jerry West quote: "We're excited about how Pau and Shane have developed during their last two seasons in the NBA and we're hopeful they will to continue to play well for us, which will greatly enhance our team in the future, ... Both players had great summers preparing for this season, and we're pleased about having them on our squad."

Kevin Garnett was a great player, but he wasn't Kobe Bryant.
JERRY WEST

Confidence is a lot of this game or any game. If you don't think you can, you won't.
JERRY WEST

The support this city and our fans have shown the Grizzlies made my decision to stay in Memphis an e...
JERRY WEST

You need lofty goals. Then cement it with a great work ethic.
JERRY WEST

Coaches who have been players in the league, they get so attuned to playing how they were successful...
JERRY WEST

The season is a beast within itself. It's not the quickest race; it's a marathon. In the pla...
JERRY WEST

At one time, we were asked to play your own man; you're responsible for your own man. And, if yo...
JERRY WEST

Defensively, from a team standpoint, I didn't feel I played very well. Very rarely was I satisfi...
JERRY WEST

Confidence is a lot of this game or any game. If you don't think you can, you won't.
JERRY WEST

It's discouraging for me to come out there and watch the lack of fan support for a good team.
JERRY WEST

I'm a Gemini. Know what that means? There are two very different sides to me.
JERRY WEST

When it's time for me to walk away from something, I walk away from it. My mind, my body, my con...
JERRY WEST

I would never stay under circumstances where I felt I was a figurehead and might look good in your t...
JERRY WEST

To be candid with you, free agency hurts all sports. It's great for athletes making an enormous ...
JERRY WEST

The Lakers had been home to me, unlike the home I had grown up and felt apart from.
JERRY WEST

I have often wondered why I was never captain of the Lakers.
JERRY WEST

I remember, years ago, if I had had an opportunity to leave the Lakers, I would have left for one re...
JERRY WEST

I don't know anything else but the Lakers. This has certainly been more than a job for me as a p...
JERRY WEST

Eddie Jones is an All-Star caliber player who has had a terrific NBA career. He is a great three-poi...
JERRY WEST

You can't get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good.
JERRY WEST

Our players are gonna be in for a shock, ... In a positive way.
JERRY WEST

I am thrilled to be able to stay on, and continue to build a winning franchise for Memphis,
JERRY WEST

A shot is a lever; it's all it is. You don't open a car door differently each time. A car do...
JERRY WEST

For some reason, I always wanted to work in an environment where things weren't so good. I'm...
JERRY WEST

I'm surprised when the ball doesn't go into the hoop. I think I should make every shot.
JERRY WEST

I think you can build a successful team without [a superstar], but to what extent?
JERRY WEST

I've always been really nationalistic, and I had a brother killed in Korea. And I think the '...
JERRY WEST

Damon is an experienced veteran and proven leader on the court. We feel we have added a significant ...
JERRY WEST

The 3-point line has changed the game so much. The day of the big man, unless you're extraordina...
JERRY WEST

I'm still very much a West Virginia boy. I haven't forgotten my roots, because that's re...
JERRY WEST

The league is changing, and we don't have many back-to-the-basket players. We now have a game th...
JERRY WEST

When the Warriors are on, my wife keeps away from me. I'm a rabid fan, and my language sometimes...
JERRY WEST

We all self-conscious. I'm just the first to admit it.
KANYE WEST

I know I got angels watchin me from the other side.
KANYE WEST

I have decided in 2020 to run for president.
KANYE WEST

I still think I am the greatest.
KANYE WEST

I don't know what's better gettin' laid or gettin' paid.
KANYE WEST

Nobody can tell me where I can and can't go.
KANYE WEST

George Bush doesn't care about black people.
KANYE WEST

I can always tell if a band has a British rhythm section due to the gritty production.
KANYE WEST

If you see a black family, it's looting, but if it's a white family they are looking for foo...
KANYE WEST

Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It's rage, it's creativity, it's pain, it...
KANYE WEST

I thank Marc Jacobs so much for giving me the opportunity to design a shoe for Louis Vuitton, but th...
KANYE WEST

Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It's so mu...
KANYE WEST

If I was just a fan of music, I would think that I was the number one artist in the world.
KANYE WEST

I would hear stories about Steve Jobs and feel like he was at 100 percent exactly what he wanted to ...
KANYE WEST

They say you can rap about anything except for Jesus, that means guns, sex, lies, video tapes, but i...
KANYE WEST

I hate the way they portray us in the media. If you see a black family it says they're looting, ...
KANYE WEST

Fashion breaks my heart.
KANYE WEST

I really appreciate the moments that I was able to win rap album of the year or whatever.
KANYE WEST

This dark diction has become America's addiction.
KANYE WEST

People always say that you can't please everybody. I think that's a cop-out. Why not attempt...
KANYE WEST

Why, if someone is good in one field can they not be accepted or given the slightest opportunity to ...
KANYE WEST

Creative output, you know, is just pain. I'm going to be cliche for a minute and say that great ...
KANYE WEST

My message isn't perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure.
KANYE WEST

I will go down as the voice of this generation, of this decade, I will be the loudest voice.
KANYE WEST

But for me to have the opportunity to stand in front of a bunch of executives and present myself, I ...
KANYE WEST

I look out of this window and I think this is a cosmos, this is a huge creation, this is one small c...
MORRIS WEST

I am not a fan of books.
KANYE WEST

The newly decorated theatres produced things like car parks and restaurants, so you could have a goo...
TIMOTHY WEST

It's never a question of skin pigmentation. It's never a question of just culture or sexual ...
CORNEL WEST

When I was getting started, I was so busy just fighting my way through, and I was under contract at ...
ADAM WEST

You see and work with many of the same people over and over again; they are all specialists in what ...
RANDY WEST

That was the day I began cutting classes and returning to TV tapings; it ultimately led to a friends...
RANDY WEST

Remember, while the work can sometimes appear to be simple to a viewer, the ability to perform exper...
RANDY WEST

Over the long hours of taping 5, 6 or 7 episodes a day, we develop a great sense of family.
RANDY WEST

Of course watching a particularly exciting game or a wonderful contestant is always a joy.
RANDY WEST

Most producers I've known were writers first, and writing is a vital part of any game show. You ...
RANDY WEST

It seems that no two people came to this specialized area of work via the exact same route.
RANDY WEST

I'm always most excited about the job I'm doing at the present, and that's especially tr...
RANDY WEST

I enjoy 'Supermarket Sweep' because of its adlib demands in following the fast action.
RANDY WEST

I can say without hesitation that there is certainly no greater show to be a contestant on than '...
RANDY WEST

From my years of work with so many game show production companies and their producers I'm probab...
RANDY WEST

Because these show are live, script pages are being switched during the program and new commercial t...
RANDY WEST

Because many of us have been in game shows for some time, there's always someone around who can ...
RANDY WEST

At Johnny's suggestion I pursued a career in radio that eventually brought me to Los Angeles.
RANDY WEST

Also at the top of the list was my three day appearance on 'Press Your Luck'. In addition to...
RANDY WEST

'What's My Line' 1971 was a magical experience as I was still in my teens, and it was my...
RANDY WEST

If you have real passion for a career in game shows, be willing to serve an apprenticeship; it's...
RANDY WEST

'Press Your Luck' was probably the most exciting because of the unpredictability of the game...
RANDY WEST

But day in and day out, the most stimulating part of the work is being a member of a team of so many...
RANDY WEST

Yet as a team, we can pull together to do some incredible work.
RANDY WEST

I'll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh ...
KANYE WEST

Racism is a moral catastrophe, most graphically seen in the prison industrial complex and targeted p...
CORNEL WEST

When you wear a mask and create a character, nothing will pigeonhole you faster.
ADAM WEST

She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.
MAE WEST

I always say, keep a diary and someday it'll keep you.
MAE WEST

Keep a diary, and someday it'll keep you.
MAE WEST

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
MAE WEST

In Paris, you're as far as possible from the land of pleasant smiles.
KANYE WEST

I think I do myself a disservice by comparing myself to Steve Jobs and Walt Disney and human beings ...
KANYE WEST

Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.
MAE WEST

So now is an opportunity for us to stand up and have a good, strong immigration policy to make sure ...
ALLEN WEST

If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine.
MORRIS WEST

Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to god, and keep your face to the raising sun.
KANYE WEST

A neoliberal disaster is one who generates a mass incarceration regime, who deregulates banks and ma...
CORNEL WEST

The little platoon of the black community is the church. Our Christian faith is based on individual ...
ALLEN WEST

How many actors have a shot at being a part of something that became a part of pop culture? It's...
ADAM WEST

Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
MAE WEST

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.
MAE WEST

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.
MAE WEST

To be a jazz freedom fighter is to attempt to galvanize and energize world-weary people into forms o...
CORNEL WEST

It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.
MAE WEST

One can write out of love or hate. Hate tells one a great deal about a person. Love makes one become...
JESSAMYN WEST

You don't have to be scared of me, because I am loyal. Why are people so scared of creative idea...
KANYE WEST

I am God's vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perfo...
KANYE WEST

Know your worth! People always act like they're doing more for you than you're doing for the...
KANYE WEST

Our work is never over.
KANYE WEST

I am Warhol. I am the No. 1 most impactful artist of our generation. I am Shakespeare in the flesh.
KANYE WEST

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.
JESSAMYN WEST

There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intellig...
REBECCA WEST

Every year, thousands of Californians flee that populous paradise for tax-eased small government oas...
ALLEN WEST

If you view life as a gold rush, you're going to end up worshiping a golden calf. And when you c...
CORNEL WEST

I can't give you detail on any of that, clearly, but we are aware that they have plans and they've l...
ALAN WEST

We've seen other plans from intelligence of attacks on merchant shipping,
ALAN WEST

We have got an underlying level of intelligence which shows there is a threat,
ALAN WEST

The horror of what happened to Lesley Ann also killed my wife. Hindley sentenced her to a long, ling...
ALAN WEST

We were still confident, even with 11 blokes. It means a lot and it gives us that spring into the fi...
ALAN WEST

We got up in Dungog's faces and really tackled well, it was brilliant, absolutely brilliant,
ALAN WEST

This year of the Trafalgar bi-centenary, it rather adds to that. Temeraire was, of course, one of th...
ALAN WEST

While this event has been in progress today, some two million tons of cargo has passed through Briti...
ALAN WEST

We love Nelson because, like real heroes, he was not perfect. He could be vain and he had his flaws ...
ALAN WEST

We have got an underlying level of intelligence which shows there is a threat.
ALAN WEST

From 1971 onwards, the Memorial Day holiday was officially observed on the last Monday in May and be...
ALLEN WEST

When women go wrong, men go right after them. -Mae West.
MAE WEST

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call m...
REBECCA WEST

I hate women because they always know where things are.
REBECCA WEST

Men are my hobby, if I ever got married I'd have to give it up.
MAE WEST

So many men, so little time.
MAE WEST

We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and mat...
REBECCA WEST

It's very easy to forgive others their mistakes, it takes more gut and gumption to forgive them for ...
JESSAMYN WEST

Women are as old as they feel and men are old when they lose their feelings.
MAE WEST

When women go wrong, men go right after them.
MAE WEST

The main difference between men and woman is that men are lunatics and woman are idiots.
REBECCA WEST

It's hard to be funny when you have to be clean.
MAE WEST

Humanism, it seems, is almost impossible in America where material progress is part of the national ...
PAUL WEST

When I got to Hollywood, there wasn't even a Boulevard. I'm that old. It was just a little d...
ADAM WEST

I believe that it's better to be looked over than it is to be overlooked.
MAE WEST

Of course, the aim of a constitutional democracy is to safeguard the rights of the minority and avoi...
CORNEL WEST

Quite simply, federal laws already on the books aimed at stopping the flow of illegal immigration mu...
ALLEN WEST

If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on the headstone might well be: "It seemed a g...
REBECCA WEST

It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk.
REBECCA WEST

Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.
REBECCA WEST

People call me feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a pros...
REBECCA WEST

It's important to us. Wetumpka isn't considered a great golf school, but this would be a great way t...
ADAM WEST

I don't have the exact number, but we didn't lose much in regular competition. The conference, I'm a...
ADAM WEST

We have been playing pretty good. I think my driving is better. Last year, I was wayward off the tee...
ADAM WEST

I am looking forward to watching the United States compete in the curling and ice hockey events. Cur...
ADAM WEST

I want to see more grass and less pavement or sidewalks.
ADAM WEST

This is one of the best mission trips I have ever been on. I was humbled before the Lord, and I was ...
ADAM WEST

He beat a two-time Class AA state qualifier in Jim Hooker (of Evergreen Park), who was seeded first.
ADAM WEST

Wisdom,
ADAM WEST

Of course, I don't like make-up. I'm too pretty!
ADAM WEST

It was inescapable. I'd just about land something substantial, something I like or a good career mov...
ADAM WEST

Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public.
CORNEL WEST

Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes.
MAE WEST

Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.
REBECCA WEST

I've always said that you can't be the new Mel Blanc by doing Mel Blanc's voice.
BILLY WEST

Journalism - an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space.
REBECCA WEST

Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.
REBECCA WEST

There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are interesting monologues, that is...
REBECCA WEST

... sexual abuse by the mother is considered to he one of the most traumatic forms of abuse. In some...
CAMERON WEST

I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure.
MAE WEST

Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
MAE WEST

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
JESSAMYN WEST

He who hesitates is last.
MAE WEST

Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.
MAE WEST

We have to recognise that there cannot be relationships unless there is commitment, unless there is ...
CORNEL WEST

Cultivate your curves - they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided.
MAE WEST

Sex is an emotion in motion.
MAE WEST

Good sex is like good bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand.
MAE WEST

His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork.
MAE WEST

I never said it would be easy, I only said it would be worth it.
MAE WEST

He who hesitates is a damned fool.
MAE WEST

Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.
MAE WEST

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call m...
REBECCA WEST

I'm single because I was born that way.
MAE WEST

I only like two kinds of men; domestic and foreign.
MAE WEST

I go for two kinds of men. The kind with muscles, and the kind without.
MAE WEST

She saw she had fallen into the hands of one of those doctors who have strayed too far from apparent...
REBECCA WEST

A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that's subtraction.
MAE WEST

If you want a baby, have a new one. Don't baby the old one.
JESSAMYN WEST

My advice to those who think they have to take off their clothes to be a star is, once you're boned,...
MAE WEST

When you get the personality, you don't need the nudity.
MAE WEST

I wonder if we are all wrong about each other, if we are just composing unwritten novels about the p...
REBECCA WEST

To meet at all, one must open ones eyes to another; and there is no true conversation no matter how ...
JESSAMYN WEST

Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers j...
REBECCA WEST

All good biography, as all good fiction, comes down to the study of original sin, of our inherent di...
REBECCA WEST

It ain't sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.
MAE WEST

Numbers constitute the only universal language.
NATHANAEL WEST

Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse.
REBECCA WEST

Right now I think censorship is necessary; the things they're doing and saying in films right now ju...
MAE WEST

When I have to choose between two evils, I always try to pick the one I haven't tried before.
MAE WEST

There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vi...
REBECCA WEST

But there are other things than dissipation that thicken the features. Tears, for example.
REBECCA WEST

Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so ...
REBECCA WEST

Goodness had nothing to do with it, dearie.
MAE WEST

You can say what you like about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.
MAE WEST

Now different races and nationalities cherish different ideals of society that stink in each other's...
REBECCA WEST

It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
MAE WEST

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