Iman Shumpert Quotes

I always look forward to playing great players, great scorers, because I pride myself on my defense.

What is important is to have a positive intent right from the start, and positive intent doesn't always mean looking for the big shots. Positive intention when it comes to defending a ball or looking for a single.

After a great save or a mistake by a defender, I prefer not to shout on him; I prefer to wait and say it inside of the dressing room. I was always like that. I am relaxed, I try to be normal after a mistake, and when I make a mistake, I don't want people coming to me on the pitch shouting at me.

It starts on the defensive end, but it's also just the ball movement and holding everyone accountable.

I used to play sports in school, but it was hard to do that because you're part of a team and you don't want to let your team down.

Everyone is expecting something in each game I'm playing. I don't have to score in every game, but I want to do my best. I want to give everything for the club, for my teammates, and myself also.

When I'm aggressive, all the other guys are aggressive, and somehow that's how we win games.

I'm not going to play with a filter anymore; I'm going to play the game I need to play to be a great player for my team.

My dad has coached a long time, so there aren't too many conversations in my family that haven't centered around basketball.

The defensive phase is about the team, so it's about balance.

I'm going to come in and learn and be the best player I can be on the court as well as off the court.

In college, I prided myself on defense and guarding the best player every night.

When I see one of my teammates make a good play, to keep that energy going, I feel like that's what I do on the defensive end, and then make a good offensive play.

I've always been one to kind of, I've always wanted to be the guy. I watched, my favorite player growing up was LeBron. One thing I noticed with him was, it's always on him at the end of the game.

When I go out there, I try to do everything I can to win. That doesn't mean I have to score more than the other team; it may mean stopping the other team.

The way I've always approached it is if we're winning and people want to talk about me, it's fine. If we're losing, then you really get on me, and I'll definitely try to be better to help us win. But I'm fine with it, as long as we're winning and we're playing good basketball.

Really what we've done is establish a tradition in Carolina of playing defense.

I worked in the summertime with the Bulls, I don't know, two-three years in a row, Vinny Del Negro, he told me I didn't play defense.

I'll always have a winning mentality in me, and I want to transmit that. I equally feel what the players are feeling and I know them as men.

I am happy to take the blame sometimes for a goal conceded if I felt I could do better.

Obviously, it is good to have competitiveness in the team and that urge to want to beat the driver next to you, but at the same time, I think we are gonna respect each other.

Defense, for me, is where I really love to put work in most. Defense is, in my mind, what wins games.

That's one thing I pride myself a lot more now, playing defense, I do what the team needs me to do. If we need a stop, I'll do it. That's a major, major part of my game now.

To know how I am very important to my team on defense, how my teammates need me on defense, it means a lot to me.

As a drag flicker, I have always strived that my team wins and comes on top.