Zaza Pachulia Quotes

Getting to the NBA really helped me personally on a lot of levels. I liked it so much that I wanted to stay there.

Trying to make the NBA is one of the very few areas where a Harvard degree won't necessarily help.

For years now, the Lakers have expressed interest in having me play for them, but we could never get the stars to align. I'm finally a Laker...

I was invited to play with the New York Knicks. I was never drafted, but I was invited to the rookie camp.

When I was younger, I just thought about playing in the NBA.

When you think about what the odds are to have four boys to not only be able to follow in the footsteps in a basketball career but to also be good in the secondary career as far as the broadcasting, it's pretty remarkable.

I'm 31 years old and I want to be part of a championship team before my career is over.

So I always figured I'd still be playing at this age.

It was a blessing just to play one NBA basketball game.

I hope to play in the NBA for many seasons, establish my position, and win titles.

The night I got drafted to the A's, obviously it was a great day of my life, but I've been a football player my whole life.

From the perspective of everything I went through to have played in four NFL games, it was one of the best experiences of my life.

I used to watch LeBron on TV growing up, and now I'm playing my first game against him.

Making it to the NBA is a big goal in my life, and one day I hope to conquer it.

If I'm able to get drafted by the New York Knicks, it would be a blessing.

I told myself coming into the league that if I could play for six or seven years, that would have been a great career.

The NBA is kind of where I've grown up, coming out of high school at 18.

All I wanted to do is coach in the NBA. I didn't want anything to do with college basketball.

At first, I was thinking about just getting to the NBA, just watching the NBA, being one of the All-Stars in the NBA.

My confidence level is, I think I can be a first-round pick; I think I can be a professional basketball player.

I think everybody's goal is to make the NBA. My goal is to be a star.

My dad has kind of been the standard for me, he played 16 years in the league, and since I've been in the league, every year that I go through and deal with the scratches, the bumps and bruises, just the grind that it is to go through one NBA season.

I exceeded my expectations of longevity in the NBA.

I'm living my dream, getting to play in the NBA, getting to play basketball.

My dream is to play someday in the NBA.