Kevin Knox Quotes

As a defender, you can be many shapes and sizes. You can be short and fast. Or you can be tall and jump high. It doesn't matter. The only necessity is that you are confident when you take the pitch - because every week there is a new challenge.

I think I am a good help defender as well as just bringing a lot of communication to the floor.

When I decide to score, I score. I know I am strong, but I believe it is not enough yet. I can kick fine, dribble very well, but I still have to improve.

In the NBA, you can't run from guys. I think a lot of teams were surprised by my interviews, how nice and well-spoken I am as a player and as a person. I'm a guy who wants to learn.

I could have coached better.

I didn't understand anything about playing baseball. I started playing, and it was enjoyable. Most of my life, I played with older people on my team, in my league. I learned a lot about life. Every day in my life, I learned something new from somebody.

I'm just here to be a leader and work on my game, work on my jump-hooks, my low-post game and just continue to get better. That's all that matters.

I've definitely gotten better, to where everyone can see that I'm not a defensive liability.

Being on the court you can really negate your athletic ability by just being in the right position.

It's always nice to be on the practice field because, ultimately, practice is the most important thing other than the game because that's where you gain your confidence; that's where you get your fundamentals.

I'm really trying to work on my defensive positioning.

I think basketball IQ, work ethic, competitiveness are probably the most important things in a basketball player.

As a footballer, you just have to try to learn what you've done bad and what I could do good.

I'm more mature, my game is more mature, and I can do a bunch of things on and off the court to fully maximize this team's potential.

I might have a great game hitting, but if I'm not having a great game fielding, if I feel like I let a guy get an extra base that I could have stopped, that's something I've got to do better, got to get better at.

Playing all these different sports, you learn so much from the people you get coached by.

I'm just trying to be the best quarterback possible. So as long as I'm playing well and improving every day, I will just continue this.

I do a lot of things to help my team winning - set screens, roll into the rim, finishing. I think I can be even more than that.

When I went to Le Havre, I wasn't physically ready. I was skinny and not strong enough to play in a tough league. They told me to go back to the second team. I was very disappointed, but maybe that helped me to be the way I am now.

Most of basketball is in the mind. But it helps to have big hands.

I need to be more aggressive, more vocal, be a better defender. I've worked on all those tirelessly.

Leadership is a lot of hard work. I hoped, when I was younger, that I would just be a natural leader or that it was something that was innate, but it is really a learned skill.

We could all use a little coaching. When you're playing the game, it's hard to think of everything.

Once you become a good person, then you have a chance of becoming a good basketball player.

I'm very passionate about the use of sports in young people's lives to build self-esteem and self-discipline and self-confidence. It's been a big thing for me.