Dirk Nowitzki Quotes

I'm starting to figure it out - figure out my spots, where I should be on the court, where I'm most effective, and how I handle double teams - and it's paying off.

If you're open in certain spots, you just shoot the ball. It doesn't matter if you're good from that spot or not.

Oh, yeah - I could see myself as a catch and shooter, come off curls and shooting. I really feel good about shooting the ball.

You know, pass now to pinch post, cut, shoot the shot. Do things to facilitate the offense. That's what I did in Alabama.

If a guy is shooting a shot in the corner 70 percent of the missed shots usually come off that other side and 30 percent hits off the front rim so just playing the percentages and kind of studying your teammates' shots throughout the course of the game.

When I came into the NBA, coaches wanted you to shoot a midrange shot or two before you shot your 3 - you know, to get an 'easy one' first.

At the end of 2003, my game was complete. Shooting, defense, using the dribble, transition, midrange stuff was all there. Then it was about fine-tuning and trying to improve in each area.

Charles Barkley taught me a lot when I played against him. How he would use his body or use his dribble to get people in there and all that stuff.

The ball touched the paint a lot of times. When we talk about touching the paint, the ball touches the key for making a layup or making a play for a teammate. We've got to use our length and our speed. Defensively, getting deflections. Give up one shot and rebound.

I always thought the objective of basketball was to get the maximum amount of movement to get the easiest shot, closest to the basket. With the three-point rule, the whole strategy changes, and you make a move and then throw it 30 feet out, where somebody takes a standing jump shot.

Getting the rebound and going, that's probably the most fluid part of my game.

I feel like I can defend three different positions: point guards, shooting guards, and small forwards who don't want to play too much in the post.

Basketball players want to be comfortable, they want to be lackadaisical, they want to make the right passes and take the right shots.

I do realize that it's important to be a threat at the 3-point line.

With that corner 3, it's the highest percentage shot in the game.

I sucked. It was my first time picking up a basketball. I watched it on TV, but I never knew what to really do with it. I mean, I needed help with everything.

It starts the fast-break a lot easier when I get the ball. I don't have to wait for big men to give me it. Just get it and go.

A lot of playcalls are for the corner 3. I thought that's something I should really work on.

I want to improve my shooting, my free throw shooting, keeping my turnovers down.

I'm not the strongest, I'm not the fastest, I can't jump the highest, so for me, it's doing it in other ways: changing paces, using your body to get open, knowing your defender. A lot goes into it. You have to study the game.

Running the triangle offense, you have pretty much set rotations where you are going to be at.

The triangle offense is more for slashers and people who like to take the ball to the basket.

I don't like isolation play, unless you're in the low post.

I just like watching good basketball being played.

There's so many different styles to it. I use my athletic ability to create shots for open people, I run the floor, then also space the floor as well. That's what I try to do.