Zaza Pachulia Quotes

When the big games come, I show up.

The season is long. You go through aches and pains with your brothers. When it's on the line, you just want to give them - you know, you want to perform. You want to give them a shot to win the game.

The playoffs bring the best out of people.

It's the playoffs. You find a way to get through.

Making it to the Finals was the hardest work. You have to go out and play the physical and mental game.

I don't really care, if somebody boos me or boos the team, we're trying to win the game.

When you're playing to get into the playoffs, your contract is the last thing on your mind.

The more people they can give us upfront the harder we play.

You always want to feel better but I'm good. My thing is once you get to the playoffs, you do whatever it takes. You've got to lay it on the line.

I was determined to get it right on the pitch. Then, if I had to leave at the end of the season, so be it. I never felt threatened or isolated by the arrangement. We worked together and it worked out.

I think as a player there's a sense of urgency every single year that this is the year we're going to have success and do the things we're excited about.

Competing in sports has taught me that if I'm not willing to give 120 percent, somebody else will.

I've been in basketball a long time, and nobody is more of a competitor than I am.

To win a championship, you have to have a little bit of luck on your side.

We have to win that game. But we have to win every game, that's the way it's always been.

I don't love football the way I once loved the game. I don't look at it as fun anymore, and it definitely used to be fun. A lot of the fun has been taken away from it, I guess, because you go through so much on the field and off the field.

I think God has it written down for me, that without training and working hard you will never achieve desired results. All three times I have had to toil my way into the Olympics. Talking about pressure, well that is something you have to learn to deal with in sports.

I can't compare family to athletics.

Desire is the most important factor in the success of any athlete.

I played with a lot of great players before. They're all the same. They take a lot of responsibility for their own play, put a lot of pressure on themselves to perform and to play well.

To me, football is so much about mental toughness, it's digging deep, it's doing whatever you need to do to help a team win and that comes in a lot of shapes and forms.

If some guys couldn't stand the heat, then they didn't belong in the major leagues. I don't know anybody who refused the World Series checks I helped them get.

I don't know whether it's the athlete in me or the passion I have for the game: I always think that I can step back on the field and play.

Our teams always play hard.

There's a great thing about amateur sport: it is purer. And the athletes are not open to so much pressure with amateur sport.