A biography for Larry Johnsonhasn’t been written yet.
“For me to lose weight or maintain my weight is all about my diet, because I can come here and work two-and-a-half hours twice a day and if I get off my diet and eat like I normally eat, which is bad, I will gain weight.”
“I used to run the streets, my mom used to be crying all the time, coming to get me out of the police station all the time. Sports took me off the street.”
“I was a bad person. I needed to change. I wasn't bringing anything into my life, but negative. I needed to bring some positive and to do that I've got to start within.”
“I can't continue to have one good game and six bad ones.”
“It hurts to lose night after night.”
“You'll hear guys talk all the time about coaches being a father figure. Well I'm 45 years old and I've never met my father. I consider Jerry Tarkanian my father.”
“I just don't want my offense to carry over to my defense. I want to help the team win and be a team player.”
“If I'm hurting the team with my play, then maybe I have to sit out a game. If I think I can be effective knowing what I can and can't do, I'll keep going at it.”
“I definitely don't look at myself as a 3-point shooter, but when we're playing three big guys, I find myself on the perimeter a lot, and they leave me alone. I've got to knock it down or do something with it.”
“I picked it up just for relaxation. I can sit down and get into the game and escape that it's a big game tomorrow, escape that we need a win, or whatever. My wife knows, after a game I get home at 12:30, I'm playing chess till 3 o'clock in the morning.”
“My back is terrible, man. I mean, you're always going to have some pain, but nothing that will stop me from doing what I want to do.”
“If it's a nationally televised game in the past, and I've been scoring 6, 7 and 8 points, I feel like I had a bad game in my mind.”
“I know that nothing is going to be given to me.”
“Since this basketball thing has started, some way or another I've become the most handsomest man in the world, because everybody's like, 'Oh!' I think, 'What's happened to me?'”
“We never played ball for money. We played because it was fun and I was good at it. But a lot of guys get paid big money to play this game, and I have a family I want to help out. But basketball will always be a game to me.”
“I'm not that big of a celebrity.”
“When people talk to me, they want to know about Grandmama, they want to know about UNLV, and how was it playing with Muggsy. You don't have to be a basketball fan to be a Muggsy fan. The shortest guy to ever play in the league, I get that question all the time.”
“Saw the best boxer, pound for pound: Roy Jones. Not a lot of hype, though.”
“JC was good for me. I had a coach who kept me into things and thinking positive. It was good basketball, but more than that it prepared me for the academic scene at a university.”
“I have always wanted to spend my entire career in the Charlotte community and concentrate on bringing the city a championship.”