Top Shannon Sharpe Quotes (in no particular order)

  1. What they're starting to do is take his kindness for weakness. He might have to touch somebody...he might have to put hands on somebody - you don't have to be a catholic priest.
    On people generally disrespecting LeBron James and assuming his kind nature is a weakness - 2017.14.11

  2. Club Shay Shay, known for entertainment, but the brunch, is banging
    On his literal and metaphorical restaurant after the Lakers beat the Clippers on 2020, March 8th. - 2020.3.9

  3. Sometimes a man can make his destiny on the very road he took to avoid it.
    On the LA Clippers making their destiny by blowing a 3-1 lead in the NBA Playoffs after they talked so much shit about how they were better than the Lakers, how their team was only focused on the playoffs, and how they underestimated everyone else and only focused on the Lokers. - 2020.9.16

  4. This is not speculation, this is not conjecture, this in not innuendo, this is fact. LeBron James has more playoff buzzer beaters than every other player that got a vote
    On LeBron James having the most playoff buzzerbeaters in the NBA, despite getting no votes in NBA general managers survey on which player they want to take the last shot in a close game. - 2020.12.22.

  5. If you see me fighting a bear don't help me, help the bear. And pour honey on me.
    On being confident that LeBron will beat the LA Clippers, even at full strength, in the 2021 playoffs, that he'll take almost whatever bet on it. - 2021.12.22

  6. Can you stop this foolishness? They gone ban you from Twitter if you keep tweeting misleading statements...The last guy that did that, he got banned permanently. I don't want you to get banned for a year, Skip, for tweeting misleading statements!
    On Skip Bayless tweeting misinformation that Kevin Durant is the best Player in the NBA. It's obviously still LeBron James, 2021.12.26

  7. Discipline will allow you to live up to expectations.
    On Leonard Fournette not having discipline to train properly. - 7.19.22

  8. The loneliest place is being at a place where you're not wanted.
    On relationships. - 2023.09.19

  9. I can motivate you with money. I can motivate you with fear. Those are temporary. The only thing that will last is self-motivation.
    On motivation - 2022.06.26

  10. We met at the airport, and we took a train… to Florence. So we all through the countryside. We be in one of those nice [train] carts. They just bringing us and bringing us and bringing us stuff. You know I'm like kicked up. I'm like okay I could get used to this.
    On enjoying trains in Italy - 2023.10.06

  11. If you order [lobster]...
    On what goes with lobster at dinner - 2023.10.23

  12. "I don't need a lot of love, I just need love from the people that I love. I don't need the world to love me"
    On caring who he receives love from - 2023.11.27

  13. It's the thing that makes us great that makes us most fallible
    On athletes thinking they can do anything, so the believe nothing can happen to them - 2024.02.24




Shannon Sharpe may have derived these quotes from other people or sources. I'm not attributing him to all of these quotes, but I'm giving him credit as my personal source of these quotes.