Lamar Odom quote: "He was a good dude before. He's an even better dude now. This is a guy who's been through a lot. He's one guy who knows how fragile life can be."

The Lakers are family. My kids don't have to switch schools. Little things like that are importa...
LAMAR ODOM

Organizations are trying to save extra money. Players are trying to get extra money. That's the ...
LAMAR ODOM

I was going to fight for what I wanted first, and that was being in L.A. and being a Laker. L.A. was...
LAMAR ODOM

Where I'm from, you're a square if you go to church or if you decide to read the Koran or Bi...
LAMAR ODOM

The Mavericks and I have mutually agreed that it's in the best interest of both parties for me t...
LAMAR ODOM

I consider myself a little weak.
LAMAR ODOM

When I had to bury my child, I probably didn't start grieving until a year and a half later.
LAMAR ODOM

Death always seems to be around me.
LAMAR ODOM

Most people don't want to get married. Being married, that's a responsibility.
LAMAR ODOM

The Lakers have been nothing but great to me, and I want to keep the relationship great.
LAMAR ODOM

I'm going to say my favorite thing is to eat salads, and I'll be like the altar boy.
LAMAR ODOM

It's good that I put my personal ego aside. My basketball ego was, 'Why we negotiating?'...
LAMAR ODOM

My grandmother was always upbeat, a naturally happy person. I think I got that from her.
LAMAR ODOM

For years I've been seeing my young brothers wearing Scarface T-shirts, John Gotti T-shirts, Ric...
LAMAR ODOM

I have candy around my bed. I just kinda like reach over and eat it and then go back to sleep, no pr...
LAMAR ODOM

Remember when Jay-Z wore a Che Guevara T-shirt? Nobody knew who Che was. Then Jay-Z wears it, and it...
LAMAR ODOM

Being humbled has been a part of my life for a long time.
LAMAR ODOM

My mother and grandmother raised me. Queens raised me.
LAMAR ODOM

Negative publicity makes people forget your best times.
LAMAR ODOM

I don't think nobody's doubting I can play basketball.
LAMAR ODOM

Respect goes a long way when you carry yourself a certain way and show manners when you first meet s...
LAMAR ODOM

We all have regrets, but the thing is to learn from life.
LAMAR ODOM

I think it's easy for people to say, 'Because you do this, you must be this kind of person, ...
LAMAR ODOM

The young men in the inner city are without guidance, robbing and shooting each other with no remors...
LAMAR ODOM

I've got a winner mentality, the mentality of a champion.
LAMAR ODOM

I don't want a girlfriend because that means I've got a responsibility. I have a responsibil...
LAMAR ODOM

He's extremely disrespectful. I'm just going to leave it at that. It's dudes like that why things ha...
LAMAR ODOM

We played a great defensive game against Detroit, a great defensive game against Oklahoma (New Orlea...
LAMAR ODOM

I'm kind of lost for words. It was a pleasure just to watch him out here.
LAMAR ODOM

It could have been called a foul. But if it's not, I guess that means I just didn't go hard enough. ...
LAMAR ODOM

We needed this game, so I just wanted to stay aggressive around the boards, find the basket, get som...
LAMAR ODOM

This was not like having a cold or the flu, this was a complicated surgery. Some people lose their l...
LAMAR ODOM

It was fun. We gave them a show. I was glad a lot of the NBA greats came, too.
LAMAR ODOM

Inside presence, being physical, that's what we need from him. The guy's got the best body in the NB...
LAMAR ODOM

Last year, we were a really bad defensive team. We're better, but we're still bad.
LAMAR ODOM

Every game we play is going to be the biggest game of the year. ... It's in our hands. We can't real...
LAMAR ODOM

We just threw everybody at (Pierce). If you put two guys on him, you have a high percentage of stopp...
LAMAR ODOM

He raises the I.Q. of your basketball team ? he helps us tremendously,
LAMAR ODOM

He raises the I.Q. of your basketball team - he helps us tremendously,
LAMAR ODOM

I have never belonged to a party. I don't have party affiliation.
WILLIAM ODOM

I don't know what we're going to do about it,
BOB ODOM

We're working to save lives today,
BOB ODOM

St. Bernard is totally underwater, ... It is over the rooftops. I didn't see a lot of houses in St. ...
BOB ODOM

there is a lot of water, a lot of damage.
BOB ODOM

If it's clean, I'll let it go, ... I'll renew (the ban) every damn month if I have to, I will do wha...
BOB ODOM

If you harvest it, it will regenerate.
BOB ODOM

We don't know if the cotton has been blown out, but most of the storm probably went to the east of t...
BOB ODOM

It's hard to remember when losses have been so widespread across almost every crop and in every regi...
BOB ODOM

We've worked with the debris contractors, the [U.S.] Corps of Engineers and FEMA to handle debris an...
BOB ODOM

The state average is about 11 inches below normal rainfall. There are very few places in the state t...
BOB ODOM

I've decided that the political context is such that the only way reform will finally come about...
WILLIAM ODOM

In fact, it struck me when we invaded last year that if we did it without European and East Asian su...
WILLIAM ODOM

Keep your poise, keep your composure, keep playing.
DAVE ODOM

It was locked up. Nobody had a key to it, so I had to get a locksmith to come in and unlock it.
DAVE ODOM

The Lone Ranger is going to be one of those iconic characters that never rides off into the sunset. ...
MEL ODOM

I think we're experiencing a resurgence of fantasy-type conventions in general because people wa...
MEL ODOM

So the idea that you could put Kurds, Shiite Arabs, and Sunni Arabs in a nice, liberal, federal syst...
WILLIAM ODOM

We lost Carols Powell and we have no one to fill his spot. We don't have anyone to assume the sole r...
DAVE ODOM

We've had great efforts — that has not been a problem. Finishing games has been. We finished tonig...
DAVE ODOM

I remember serving in Vietnam in that war, and many of us at the major Lieutenant Colonel, colonel l...
WILLIAM ODOM

We did not have our game with us today. We were very out of sync and I don't know why that is. This ...
DAVE ODOM

I will make a general statement that we have not had anything like the policy of holding people in h...
WILLIAM ODOM

I can't imagine a team having a more rigorous non-conference schedule than S.C. State. Having not pl...
DAVE ODOM

We were only down six points with about 3 minutes on the clock and then gave in with a rash of error...
DAVE ODOM

Only Tubby knows where that's headed. We've got to prepare for their whole roster and nobody has the...
DAVE ODOM

We are delighted to be playing in the finals for the second consecutive year. That is a big thing fo...
DAVE ODOM

[Although much of the downed timber is on private land, Odom is hoping to get federal approval to pr...
BOB ODOM

That's hard to overcome anywhere, home or away, neutral, wherever. The difference is the free throw ...
DAVE ODOM

We did not play as smart as you have to play playing a top 25 team, suffice to say. You've got to pl...
DAVE ODOM

The loss is disappointing. Physically and mentally we gave in there at the end. It doesn't mean we d...
DAVE ODOM

More is not always better, particularly with Renaldo — sometimes, less is better. If you keep him ...
DAVE ODOM

Billy and I were able to shake hands after the game and he had some nice complements about how our a...
DAVE ODOM

Nobody wants his legacy to be: 'He was a great NIT coach.
DAVE ODOM

I enjoy the NIT. I don't know if anyone wants their legacy to be he was a great NIT coach, but by th...
DAVE ODOM

That's a beginning, not an end. You take what you can get when you get it.
DAVE ODOM

You're not going to be fatigued in the first 10 minutes (when South Carolina was missing shot after ...
DAVE ODOM

We obviously took some 3s, no question about that. Probably no more than we should have, but we didn...
DAVE ODOM

Idly, Wick wondered if he should feel insulted. Then he decided there really wasn't any room for con...
MEL ODOM

With Florida, we are facing a team, and I say team underlined. They are, in the truest sense, a real...
DAVE ODOM

(Downey)'s exciting to watch, much like an Allen Iverson is. We've to make sure we don't watch him, ...
DAVE ODOM

He had a basketball IQ. He could make that kind of change. But there are very few of those guys.
DAVE ODOM

Does any Watcher ever know that he is suddenly watching the Slayer until that moment is announced to...
MEL ODOM

The whole notion of land property rights in the Arab world is different from that in Europe.
WILLIAM ODOM

I don't know quite as much about Cincinnati as I'd like. I think we know enough to know that defensi...
DAVE ODOM

I asked them to chisel it down and we did. Right now we need to get back home and correct and get re...
DAVE ODOM

Firing off 1,000 or 500 or 2,000 nuclear warheads on a few minutes' consideration has always str...
WILLIAM ODOM

A big, big factor in South Carolina 's favor. They do a great job of forcing turnovers and making as...
DAVE ODOM

Also, General Zinni, who commanded central command, was very much opposed to the war in the first pl...
WILLIAM ODOM

I had a blast writing the Ranger in 'The Great Dinosaur Rush' for the Moonstone collection. ...
MEL ODOM

In World War II in Germany, we had a ration for one U.S. soldier, or one allied soldier for every tw...
WILLIAM ODOM

More is not always better, particularly with Renaldo sometimes, less is better. If you keep him u...
DAVE ODOM

For whatever reason, against us it's always easy to shoot 3-point shots in last four minutes of the ...
DAVE ODOM

We've had great efforts that has not been a problem. Finishing games has been. We finished tonigh...
DAVE ODOM

If people have trouble when the grass is cut sometimes that'll kick the tree pollen and mold up in t...
LAURA ODOM

Sonnymoon and Quadrants are a couple of bands that really inspire me in terms of the melodics of thi...
KENDRICK LAMAR

My whole thing is to inspire, to better people, to better myself forever in this thing that we call ...
KENDRICK LAMAR

If my edge is dull, my sword is dull, and I don't want to fight another guy whose sword is dull....
KENDRICK LAMAR

Since day one, since the first time I touched the pen, I wanted to be the best at what I do.
KENDRICK LAMAR

If I'm gonna tell a real story, I'm gonna start with my name.
KENDRICK LAMAR

We literally had all 10 teams alive for a playoff position in the final week of the season. That out...
LAMAR HUNT

Well, we've made huge strides since the 1990 World Cup, USA '94, and obviously since '98...
LAMAR HUNT

You can't compare a Super Bowl crowd, which tends to be more polite and a little more neutral to...
LAMAR HUNT

He is not someone who went off to play in Europe and only a few Americans follow. He has the potenti...
LAMAR HUNT

The stadiums are like none I've ever seen. I think there must have been some strong competition ...
LAMAR HUNT

I have no doubts that it will be a major sport-in the United States. I'm probably not going to l...
LAMAR HUNT

I get asked this a lot: Why has soccer not succeeded? My answer is, soccer has succeeded. It is alre...
LAMAR HUNT

The composition of the primary is so different than when I was first elected governor in 1978.
LAMAR ALEXANDER

If you have a solution to immigration, it is possible to come home and defend it.
LAMAR ALEXANDER

The job of mayor and Governor is becoming more and more like the job of university president, which ...
LAMAR ALEXANDER

Sooner or later, I need to begin to do what any candidate does in a presidential race; I need to beg...
LAMAR ALEXANDER

We've got a strong group of Republicans who are conservatives who know that their jobs aren'...
LAMAR ALEXANDER

I've got a new rule. It'll be rule No. 312. If it's three days before a campaign, don...
LAMAR ALEXANDER

President Bush and I had asked Congress to appropriate a half-billion dollars to school vouchers. We...
LAMAR ALEXANDER

We do all the appropriating. They do not do any of it down at the White House. They send a budget up...
LAMAR ALEXANDER

It is a rare American who does not have some story about how music has made our lives richer and mor...
LAMAR ALEXANDER

I think there's plenty of evidence that we need to stop spewing so much carbon into the air, tha...
LAMAR ALEXANDER

There are a growing number of conservatives and Republicans who, while they support the president an...
LAMAR ALEXANDER

If Mr. Bush and Mr. Forbes don't get most of the votes, they should be arrested for wasting mone...
LAMAR ALEXANDER

I need to know the price of a gallon of milk and a dozen eggs. I need to know right now.
LAMAR ALEXANDER

When I get close to an election, I look to 'Lamar Alexander's Little Plaid Book' for ins...
LAMAR ALEXANDER

When I was governor, I was looking for a way to unify our state. I realized music is about the only ...
LAMAR ALEXANDER

Well, here's what I think. I mean, the people are saying, 'We don't want it,' and th...
LAMAR ALEXANDER

I love Washington, D.C.; I love this country, but I think over the last hundred years we've buil...
LAMAR ALEXANDER

Put too many one-size-fits-all jackets on Americans and the place explodes.
LAMAR ALEXANDER

Most people who get in trouble in politics usually get in trouble because they're disconnected f...
LAMAR ALEXANDER

I think there are too many bosses in Washington telling Nashville Diesel College and Harvard Univers...
LAMAR ALEXANDER

September 11 is one of our worst days but it brought out the best in us. It unified us as a country ...
LAMAR ALEXANDER

I think we do better as a country when we go step by step toward a goal, and the goal in this case s...
LAMAR ALEXANDER

As Governor, I could think of only one way to unify our State that was made up of so many different ...
LAMAR ALEXANDER

I think my worst problem is actually living in the moment and understanding everything that's go...
KENDRICK LAMAR

Me, as a person, I grow. I'm like a chameleon. You know? That is a gift and a curse for me. But ...
KENDRICK LAMAR

The best thing is to always keep honest people around, because when you have a bunch of yes men arou...
KENDRICK LAMAR

Groups break up because they never got across what they wanted to do personally, and they have creat...
KENDRICK LAMAR

Being acknowledged for your work is always a great accomplishment, whether it's people in my cit...
KENDRICK LAMAR

The hardest thing for - not only an artist but for anybody to do is look themselves in the mirror an...
KENDRICK LAMAR

The worst part of success is, to me, adapting to it. It's scary.
KENDRICK LAMAR

The goal with a big piece of social legislation is to have a bipartisan result, so the country will ...
LAMAR ALEXANDER

My moms always told me, 'How long you gonna play the victim?' I can say I'm mad and I ha...
KENDRICK LAMAR

People are used to music that justifies street culture but something that's not touched on is wh...
KENDRICK LAMAR

I learned, when I look in the mirror and tell my story, that I should be myself and not peep whateve...
KENDRICK LAMAR

People have to go through trials and tribulations to get where they at. Do your thing - continue to ...
KENDRICK LAMAR

Sometimes you have the trends that's not that cool. You may have certain artists portraying thes...
KENDRICK LAMAR

We hear a lot about rebuilding Detroit, and we just spent $70 billion to bail out the auto industry ...
LAMAR ALEXANDER

At first, I was scared to show fear because you can never be sure how people will perceive you. But ...
KENDRICK LAMAR

We are the only country in the world that has taken people from so many different backgrounds, which...
LAMAR ALEXANDER

My parents were fairly young in the city of Compton. So the things that they played - you know, that...
KENDRICK LAMAR

My folks ain't graduated from high school or nothing like that, so we always had to struggle in ...
KENDRICK LAMAR

When everybody looks at our generation of kids, they always call us the misfits - you know, like we ...
KENDRICK LAMAR

I've been in their shoes, and it's hard. It's great to see somebody at least have that opportunity.
BURNEY LAMAR

When we go to Richmond [to race], hopefully we can do the same things we do in testing, and I can go...
BURNEY LAMAR

Actually, I was just happy to finish a Busch race. That was actually the first one I ever finished.
BURNEY LAMAR

You can say I'm crazy, but three years ago, I was at home on the couch watching races like this.
BURNEY LAMAR

I've been called a recluse. There's definitely truth in that. I like to spend time alone.
KENDRICK LAMAR

Temptation is just the feeling that you're the most independent person on planet Earth. That you...
KENDRICK LAMAR

When you go on your Twitter or look down your Timeline and it's all great positivity - I love th...
KENDRICK LAMAR

I've got an extra-specific story about Dr. Dre. I saw him when I was 9 years old in Compton - hi...
KENDRICK LAMAR

Every day before school, I would bang away on Czerny, Bach, Beethoven and Mozart-and throw in a litt...
LAMAR ALEXANDER

We do all the appropriating. They do not do any of it down at the White House. They send a budget up...
LAMAR ALEXANDER

We don't have a president who is our agenda-setter, so we have multiple voices on every issue.
LAMAR ALEXANDER

What happens in Iowa makes more difference than it ever has before.
LAMAR ALEXANDER

He has a lot of talent. He won a very tough race and is an excellent speaker.
LAMAR ALEXANDER

When I went back to my old high school, all these kids looking at me like I'm the real big homie...
KENDRICK LAMAR

From the moment I started writing raps, I was always aware of the pressure. I always wanted to live ...
KENDRICK LAMAR

Tupac, Biggie, Jay. Your usual suspects. These were the people that was played in my household.
KENDRICK LAMAR

It's indescribable. It's like a dream come true.
LAMAR BUTLER

I think people are looking for a president who has views and who sticks to those views. So, I think ...
LAMAR ALEXANDER

We're in the last days, man - I truly, in my heart, believe that. It's written. I could go o...
KENDRICK LAMAR

I think it is most appropriate that the two teams have committed to new 25-year leases, and that the...
LAMAR HUNT

I'm under no direction from ownership that I have to trade them whatsoever. That's not even a factor...
CHUCK LAMAR

The majority of my interactions with police were not good. There were a few good ones who were actua...
KENDRICK LAMAR

I always thought money was something just to make me happy. But I've learned that I feel better ...
KENDRICK LAMAR

It is ironic that Mr. Berger learned of this espionage in exactly the same month that Mr. Gore was a...
LAMAR ALEXANDER

To power the country by building 186,000 fifty-story wind turbines - and running 19,000 miles of new...
LAMAR ALEXANDER

[Cardinals Hall of Fame shortstop Ozzie Smith recently spent three days in North Carolina working wi...
CHUCK LAMAR

I'm Machiavelli's offspring, I'm the king of New York, king of the coast, one hand, I ju...
KENDRICK LAMAR

People gonna be they own individuals and have they own worlds and I can't knock it.
KENDRICK LAMAR

This is the thing about hip-hop music and where people get it most misconstrued: It's all hip-ho...
KENDRICK LAMAR

One of the biggest decisions this organization will make is whether B.J. Upton is going to be the ev...
CHUCK LAMAR

There are a growing number of conservatives and Republicans who, while they support the president an...
LAMAR ALEXANDER

He doesn't need a microphone. He uses it and it's an instant headache. After a while your head gets ...
LAMAR BUTLER

New federal criminal penalties are needed to deter and punish these dishonest individuals and busine...
LAMAR SMITH

Before finding music, I didn't have too many aspirations. I wanted to hang out, make a little mo...
KENDRICK LAMAR

I look at where I'm at today and realize that most of my success is owed to the mentors that was...
KENDRICK LAMAR

When I'm in the studio, I'm looking for creativity I haven't matched yet, a feeling I ha...
KENDRICK LAMAR

if they don't think he can play shortstop then they should think about trading him.
CHUCK LAMAR

I'm only as good as my last word, my last hook, my last bridge.
KENDRICK LAMAR

Black and brown pride have been taught in my household for a long time.
KENDRICK LAMAR

Having said that, we saw him play the latter part of August and thought he had had enough. He had al...
CHUCK LAMAR

We thought he had had enough -- going from Double-A to Triple-A
CHUCK LAMAR

Sirens and everything. Usually the drive takes half an hour at least. With the escort it was about 1...
LAMAR BUTLER

There's no question it's going to be a busy week. You're going to have some released players that ha...
CHUCK LAMAR

"You make time for who or what you love.
LAMAR THOMPSON

Our sin is great but Gods grace is greater!
LAMAR THOMPSON

God is not pleased with these mashed potato Christians. You know the kind that are found in the T.V....
LAMAR THOMPSON

One I'm going to keep in my pocket wherever I go. One I frame and keep it on my wall.
LAMAR BUTLER

Bob asked our permission and he certainly didn't have to do that. We didn't have any claim to it, we...
LAMAR HUNT

At that time, they voiced no negative displeasure. Obviously that changed between that last series a...
CHUCK LAMAR

I'm just writing, writing, writing. I keep these tablets on me until I'm inspired to go back...
KENDRICK LAMAR

If I told you that a flower bloomed in a dark room, would you trust it?
KENDRICK LAMAR

We wanted to deliver the first blow. We didn't want to take any blows tonight.
LAMAR BUTLER

He was a good dude before. He's an even better dude now. This is a guy who's been through a lot. He's one guy who knows how fragile life can be.

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He was a good dude before. He's an even better dude now. This is a guy who's been through a lot. He's one guy who knows how fragile life can be.

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