Nick Nurse Quotes

When I got the call to guard Magic, I knew that I could cause him a lot of problems.

What is life, after all, but a challenge? And what better challenge can there be than the one between the pitcher and the hitter.

They throw the ball, I hit it. They hit the ball, I catch it.

The NBA is intense, but the NFL is a whole 'nother level of intensity and dramatic, game-changing plays.

What our kids learn to do is fight. So when you watch a Devin Booker, you look at Tyler Ulis - they fight.

I've played so many games of football now, and even though it is at a higher level, at the end of the day, football is football. You are just playing with better players.

If you're athletic and you can run, you can play defense. It's a mindset.

Every team I play, I'm playing them like we playing the Golden State when they had Kevin Durant. Every point guard I play, I'm playing Steph Curry. Every shooting guard I'm playing, I'm playing James Harden. Every three-man I'm playing, I'm playing LeBron and KD.

I always felt defense was a big part of my game.

That's how I grew up. Just play defense - and make a basket.

My teammates tell me to shoot the ball when I'm open. I feel like I'm open most of the time, so I shoot it.

I like to let the ball do the talking.

You might get fouled and have a no-call, but let's still go out and hoop. Just beat them up the other way, and that's with the scoreboard.

I love NBA. I enjoy it, and I also really love the dominance that LeBron James brings to the court.

I am really competitive. I take my basketball very seriously, even though I'm not really that good. I take it very seriously.

It doesn't matter if it's Spencer Dinwiddie, Taurean Prince, DeAndre Jordan, I'm trying to win that matchup every time.

I grew up playing in lots of physical battles against lots of players. It's something I enjoy. I'm a big lad myself, so I feel I can handle myself in a battle.

All us players do that - looking to play, to fight for a place.

You always - as a basketball player, as a competitor - that's where you speak most: on the court.

I try to play my game; I try my best to recover the ball quickly: that's my job.

You need to be able to defend. It's massively important, and at Arsenal, we've sometimes been guilty of forgetting that.

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.

You have big players playing in MLS, every team can win any game. You have to fight.

Get the winners into the game.