Jahlil Okafor Quotes

Being in a career and going from highlight to highlight and playing a lot of matches you go through it and think it's normal when you play in front of 60,000 and you almost want to vomit in front of every game.

It's terrifying to play your favorite band's song in front of your favorite band.

Since this our first show, I think they'll see us sweat a lot.

In my very first NFL game, I completed my first pass to Hall of Fame running back Marshall Faulk.

I wished very much for the day of my debut at Old Trafford, and I did in the best way, scoring a goal.

I get that every game. High school. At Duke. When I do the introductions, I get a little butterflies. Once I step on the floor, I'm fine.

People want to be Lakers. There's just so much pressure, and some guys handle it and some guys can't.

The first one is your first World Cup, so you go into it with a lot of pressure, trying to take it all in, but you are just so focused.

Being in a Grand Slam, doesn't matter what you did before, it's always nervous and excitement.

There were so many emotions on 'Idol' with nervousness and pressure, but in good ways.

It's not that I get nervous but when it's a really hot button crowd where they are really energetic I get anxious.

There is a lot of pressure because of what my father achieved and everyone is expecting so much, but that gives me that extra drive in the gym every day to graft hard.

I have a responsibility and a job as a guy who gets paid a lot of money, I'm expected to perform. And 82 games in 6-7 months is a lot, and it's hard on the body, and you're not gonna play perfect every night. Even Ray Allen misses shots, even LeBron misses dunks.

The night of the WeeLC match was the biggest match of my career. That gave me a ton of amazing memories that will never be able to be taken from me.

The first game I played against the University of Miami, I was very nervous - eyes wide open.

You're always under pressure, that's what life is about. That is what playing international cricket or being a professional sportsman is.

Playing for the Bulls, playing for big organizations, like Boston, you're going to be judged from Day One. It's part of it. You signed up for it.

You would think doing comedy would be nerve wracking, but punting and kicking footballs gets me more nervous.

That was...that was choking. You're right. But of course when you play against (Roger) Federer, he's No. 1 in the world, he won three grand slams last year, and he's just full of confidence. It's difficult to do anything regular to beat him. You have to do something extra to be able to have the chance to beat him. Set points, I had six of them and I couldn't take one. But I was close.

My job as a coach was to make something meaningful out of one of the most mundane activities on the planet: playing pro basketball.

How did Mike Bibby get on the team? Any Cub Scout with Boy Scouts can do Boy Scoutish things. When Bibby was in the Cub Scouts, he was a Cub Scout. When he was with Vancouver, nobody heard about him. Now that he's with Sacramento... he's on the team. I ain't going.

If parents are aiming at choosing children who will be good athletes, or great musicians, or who will get into Ivy League schools, or who will be tall enough to make the basketball team, then there is a danger that the life of the child will bear the burden of that expectation; and the risk of disappointment and the cost of disappointment will be even higher than they are now, and even now they can be considerable.

Everybody in New York thinks the Knicks are Playboy bunnies, and I have been telling them for years the Knicks are a rabbit. They're closer to a Playboy bunny this year but for the last few years these guys are like, 'We have a really good team!' And I say, 'You really think that?' And I say, 'No, they don't.' But this is the best team they've had in a while.

It's hard to get up for a good high-school team like the Chicago Bulls.

I spoil a lot of people with my play. If you have three bad games in a seven-year career, people are going to point that out.