Dwyane Wade Quotes

I know I have to be good on pick-and-rolls.

When I started to do it with precision, I realized how much setting good screens made us better as a team offensively. It made things easy for me and my teammates.

It takes 10 hands to score a basket

I play a complicated position in an intensely team-oriented game.

Basketball for me has always been a matter of rhythm - what you do bouncing the ball, how you bounce the ball, how you run, how you receive the ball to be in rhythm.

They were so clever finding ways to get me the ball. They had to do more than just give up open shots. They had to avoid fouls and pass me the ball in traffic.

It's not easy to act, but to direct to act. It goes form one place to the next. It's not heading for the punchline, and also it's not about scoring goals. It's about passing the ball, and the goals will come by themselves.

In football, it's the ultimate team sport. You have to have good people around you as a quarterback for things to happen.

Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.

I've been shooting the ball and running a little bit. It's just going out here now and forgetting that I've been out and try to get back in and make sure I know what's going on out there on the floor and that we're just not lost as a team.

When our assists lead to baskets, that's us playing our best, and we begin knocking down shots.

A basketball team is like the five fingers on your hand. If you can get them all together, you have a fist. That's how I want you to play.

Center is a very tough position to play.

You can't try a man-to-man if you don't practice it.

I was never a great screen and roller, obviously.

A lot of times getting double- or triple-teamed, like triangle-and-two, it just made me be more of an all-around player.

In high school, I played a lot of point forward, and I had to get everyone involved.

I know what I can do and I know I can pass the ball. I know I can be a true point guard and I know I can score also.

I want the ball in my hands, throwing the ball, making decisions.

In college, I got better at playing the 2, kind of got a feel for it coming off screens, found my rhythm. Before that I was a natural point guard.

Both sides of the game, defensively and offensively, are important.

I like the uniqueness and creativity you can have on a basketball court; there's always a different way to score. Obviously, you have teammates, so it's easier to draw up plays, and tennis, you have your patterns and where you should hit based on percentage.

Passing the basketball - I feel like I've gotten better with that.

During the game, you don't really notice how many guys have touched the ball because you're just focusing on where you need to be.

If you ask the guys I played with when I was little, they'll all tell you the same thing. All I did was catch and shoot. I didn't do anything else.