Rudy Gobert Quotes

I just try to play hard defensively.

I feel like winning starts with defense and rebounding.

Defense not only wins games; it's what gets you on the floor at every level you play at. Once you get to high school and get to college, if you don't play defense, you won't play.

'The Memphis Grizzlies' are always a great defensive team and defense is one of my strengths, so I think that's one thing that I can bring to this team.

Defense is something I've always taken pride in from college and high school.

I just go out there and 'D' up. Everybody can make a layup, but everybody can't play 'D.' Just winning, that's all that matters, that's the bottom line. Get a win.

You can't just score more points than last year without playing defense.

I think my one-on-one defense is pretty good.

When I play, there are things throughout the game that I notice, especially rebounding.

Playoffs, you know, defense is elevated even more.

When kids start playing basketball, they all think about scoring.

I don't want to get dunked on too much, and I want to make it to the playoffs.

You've got to try to guard, make an effort to defend to the best of your ability. You have to rebound the ball, which was an area that was so critical. And they wanted you to play smart and have fun. I've kind of tried to let our people understand those are the most important things that I could possibly tell them.

Sometimes I miss coaching, but often things are not how they appear in football.

I was happy working for the N.B.A., but to be honest, I decided that I'd probably get back into coaching. I missed the teaching, I missed the games, I missed the competition.

We've got to play better basketball.

I want to win football games.

Football players win football games.

Center is a very tough position to play.

Of course I love basketball.

I'm a competitor. I like to win games. I like basketball and I like to win games.

You can't try a man-to-man if you don't practice it.

Strikers can't score every week, much as they would like to.

I'm ready to come out and show people I'm able to play defense.

I think we're always chasing a win once the ball goes up.