Nba Quotes - Page 6

I don't know what's wrong with that girl.

The one thing that always bothered me when I played in the NBA was I really got irritated when they put a white guy on me.

The players I respected most were the toughest players, not those who talked a good game or blocked a shot and acted like a fool.

People ask me if I could fly, I said, 'yeah....' for a little while.

If you're not talking, you're not playing defense

Inferior guards play on the sidelines and great guards play in the middle. Isiah, Magic, Chris Paul, all get to the middle

He shouldn't have been in the NBA, but we were too cheap to pay for a point guard.

Be a dreamer. If you don't know how to dream, you're dead.

I could never give up Mexican food. Nachos are usually my go-to if I'm courtside at an NBA game. I always, always get my picture taken with my mouth wide open and a tortilla chip sticking out of it!

It is foolish to expect a young man to follow your advice and to ignore your example.

People think that I'm some tough renegade, black-hearted being, evil, but that ain't me.

Failure makes me work even harder.

You have to lose yourself in the team and you have to lose yourself in the game

Shooting percentage is just as much about decision making as it is about technique

Your decisions reveal your priorities

You've got to stay ready, especially around here. That's what we preach, you'll get your opportunity whether it comes at the beginning or in the middle or in the end whenever it may be. When your time comes, you need to be ready to go because you're going to earn your minutes

I was never supposed to play in college, let alone the NBA, so I always feel like I have something to prove. No one ever expected me to be here, so that feeling of being an underdog is ingrained in me. It's a natural part of my consciousness.

The key to success is failure

Build shelter against a rainy day.

I take everything I learned from the streets and put it in my NBA game.

Never be ready to play yesterday. Being ready to play today is what's important

Don't worry about being cool. Worry about being the best

Create unselfishness as the most important team attribute.

When I was a little kid I used to go on the playground and say: today I will shoot like Bird, pass like Magic, jump like Mike, be quick like Zeke. I am thankful to them, since without seeing them do things they did, I wouldn't be in the NBA.

I don't believe in pressure. Pressure is when you don't know where your next meal is coming from.