Steve Nash Quotes

I realised, 'I'm not going to dribble past five payers and score', so for me it was about having something different, and being two-footed was it. I pride myself on that now.

I can run up and down, shoot threes, or go inside. I can also get involved by setting screens and rebounding.

I feel good doing it. It's not like guys are stripping me at half-court or I'm just losing the ball dribbling. I think I'm handling the ball pretty well, just trying to make good passes, man.

You have to learn to be fluid and go where you're needed, when you're needed. You've gotta be flexible. I think that's what acting is.

You have to be able to adjust on the fly, and that is what the great ones do.

I can shoot, or I can roll, I can finish inside, I can take two-point shots, I can switch on defence and I can protect the paint.

Foot work, hand-eye coordination. There's a lot of things. If you just watch basketball, you can tell where it would help someone who's receiving the ball.

I always enjoy when CJ gets rolling because it's not just the fact that he's doing it for our team; it's the way it looks. Smooth. Crossovers. Crafty. Tough shots.

I try to do the fancy things out there by going with both hands, making crossover moves, and having a certain creativity and flair to my game.

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

You have to create a habit of finding the right positions and knowing where the ball's going to bounce to.

I think if you can be as versatile as you can be, you'll be the best player you can be.

That's what my game is built around: versatility.

When I get on the basketball court, there's not too many things I can't do.

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

Versatility is very important in the modern game.

Your touch and your feel for the game is pretty much gone if you don't work on it - at least get some shots up or dribble the ball.

What makes me unique is my ability to adapt to different situations and switch onto smaller guards and stay out there. Another component to being out there on the floor - and this is something that I learned as my college career went on - was staying on the floor, literally, comes down to not picking up fouls.

When you are an artist you can turn your hand to anything, in any style. Once you have the tools then all the artforms are the same in the end.

Be big, fast and flexible.

Unless you’re continually improving your skills, you’re quickly becoming irrelevant.

Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change.

Flexibility is a requirement for survival.

I'd say that the No. 1 attribute you need as an actor is to be malleable. You need to be able to change and tailor what you're doing to what the situation dictates.

I don't care what anything was designed to do, I care about what it can do.