Joakim Quotes & Sayings

I was very studious, too much. I would never go out at weekends. I was very serious. You should have seen me in class - I was blushing and sweating every time the teacher asked me something. — Eva Green

She had been feeling it more and more lately. The walls were closing in around her. The emptiness, the thoughts hidden behind thick walls of work. The unfathomable futility of it all. — Joakim Zander

Throughout my journey in basketball, I always have someone to talk to in my father. I know how hard he had to work as an athlete. — Joakim Noah

The world must become romanticized, and in that way we find again its original meaning for us. — Novalis

I go back to Africa every year. I have a home there. You know, my grandfather lives back there in Cameroon. — Joakim Noah

I always give respect to and pay homage to New York, because I don't feel like I would be the player that I am today if it wasn't for New York City. It gives you a certain edge, a certain toughness just growing up in the city. — Joakim Noah

I asked Tyler what he'd been fighting.
Tyler said, his father.
Maybe we didn't need a father to complete ourselves. — Chuck Palahniuk

I let my eyes drift into the maze of leaves that only trees understand. Hatred has its gravitational web, locking stray specks of confusion into spirals of violence. — Gregory David Roberts

It took him almost a half hour to write a message of only five lines. It took yet another fifteen minutes to delete whatever might be construed as ambiguity, desperation, or references to a history that he no longer had access to. Finally, he took a deep breath and hit 'send'. — Joakim Zander

Being from New York, everybody's a point guard. Even when you play in the park, you've got to know how to handle the ball. If you can't handle the ball, you can't really play. — Joakim Noah

It's really important to have balance, spend some time in nature, go to a few parties, enjoy my friends and really chill out. — Joakim Noah

We should live, act, and say nothing to the injury of anyone. It is not only best as a matter of principle, but it is the path to peace and honor. — Robert E.Lee

Lie detectors don't work on someone who can't tell the difference between truth and lies. — Joakim Zander

What I can't understand is, how can anybody figure now that the government can support us, when we support the government. — Rose Wilder Lane

All my best friends live downtown in New York City. I was made in Soho. — Joakim Noah

Art is interesting because there can be so many different perspectives in a piece of art. The way I see it may be completely different than the way somebody else sees it. It's interesting to hear what somebody sees in a piece of art compared to somebody else. It could be completely different, and that's interesting to me. — Joakim Noah

We're all spies. What do we have if not our rumors, our half-truths, our fragments taken out of context? — Joakim Zander

I think I must be bleeding. I think, if I'm thinking, I must be alive. I think, my arms must be here somewhere, I can feel them under the concrete. I think, what am I holding, what am I lying on top of? — Joakim Zander

Remember that the policies are only that:
policies - not rules that must be followed. They
can, and should, be broken from time to time,
but the decision to do so should be made
intentionally and often with careful consideration
from the whole team. — Joakim Sunden

Everytime I hold you is the last time I hold you, I've known that since the very first time. — Joakim Zander

'Never' is too much of a word. Nothing lasts forever. — Martin Van Creveld

I would go on summer vacations visiting family all over the world. — Joakim Noah

When I look at what the world does and where people nowadays believe they can find happiness, I am not sure that that is true happiness. The happiness of these ordinary people seems to consist in slavishly imitating the majority, as if this were their only choice. And yet they all believe they are happy. I cannot decide whether that is happiness or not. Is there such a thing as happiness? — Zhuangzi

But one day. After ideology comes religion. Those who were our friends will become our enemies. — Joakim Zander

I feel like when I play, I play tough. That's the New York in me. That's the street tournaments. — Joakim Noah

The way they dress here (California), your head is always in the stands. All those bikinis, your eyes get tired. — Rod Carew

They won't choose Joakim Noah as the MVP, but I think it's great that he's in the conversation and he should be. But it's just not the way it works, from my experience. It's got to go in the basket for you guys to pay attention to somebody. But he's pretty damn valuable in my opinion. — Gregg Popovich

It's late, but we're both accustomed to sleepless nights. — Joakim Zander

I learned a lot from my father. I'm very lucky to have a father who was a professional athlete. — Joakim Noah