Tim Duncan Quotes

I'm a woman and I'm a backbone...everybody needs one.

I wanna be that glue guy: I want to be a guy my team and my coach can count on. That's what I want to be.

I enjoy being held accountable, I enjoy holding my teammates accountable and being someone that my teammates can depend on.

To know how I am very important to my team on defense, how my teammates need me on defense, it means a lot to me.

I always knew I took care of more than myself from a young age. People depended on me.

Confidence is not lodged in people's brains, it comes from the support system that surrounds them. Let's not confuse confidence overall with just self-confidence. Self-confidence is only one part of confidence. People also need confidence in others - their colleagues and leaders - that they can count on them to do the right thing and not to let them down.

You're the one who held me up Never let me fall

When you have my confidence, I will do 200% for you.

When I see someone who has responsibilities, most of the time I can pinpoint that person because of the way he carries himself.

A coach's greatest asset is his sense of responsibility - the reliance placed on him by his players.

My parents trust me.

People take chances every now and then, and you don't want to disappoint them.

You get a reputation for stability if you are stable for years.

I trust the people.

I have a few friends that I think would go to bat for me no matter what. Flea is definitely one of them. Guy Oseary is one of them.

I have unbelievable trust in my offensive line that they will get the job done. Not only them, but the running backs and as a quarterback, I have to do my job in getting the ball in the right people's hands and doing what I do best.

My father, he was like the rock, the guy you went to with every problem.

At the heart of leadership is the leader's relationship with followers. People will entrust their hopes and dreams to another person only if they think the other is a reliable vessel.

I’ll take care of South America. Just leave it to me.

When someone is there for you, has your back, that's somebody to pay attention to because that's a friend.

When you step on the field, you want to be a starter. You want to be the person everybody looks to and says, 'If we need a play to be made, let's go to him.'

As a player, I always felt confident that if I was caIm, my teammates knew, 'He's going to do something to help us win.' As a coach, my hands are really tied. I got to believe in my players. If they see I'm calm, they'll believe I trust them, which I do.

I know that I am absolutely reliable. Absolutely.

I think whenever you take over a role, you're just really hoping that people will embrace you.

You've been entrusted with a lot of money and a lot of careers, and a lot of people put their faith in me, and every director goes through that every time.