Collin Sexton Quotes

I'm not a player that gets angry, especially not with coaches.

I wouldn't say I've changed at all. A lot of people will keep saying I'm a different person, especially when I go across those white lines. I think it's just the hunger and desire and passion I've got for the game.

When I'm away from the field, I show a little more emotion and stuff.

I like Draymond Green's intensity... but every time I didn't get a call I didn't cry all the time.

People used to talk to me about that and say, 'Rom doesn't play with passion.' I do, but I don't show it too much because in my mind, I'm a guy that thinks a lot about how to win the game. Sometimes I let the emotions just come now, and it helps me.

On the field, you have to be aggressive; you're thinking how to get the better of a situation. It's not that I don't laugh on the field. In fact, I think it's very important to laugh, especially when you are angry and aggressive, to just take the tension away, make the moment go away.

I play in front of 70,000 fans week in and week out, and I may drop the ball in practice, I may run the ball the wrong way, but once it's game time, it's game on.

Everybody gets all worked up about trash talk but it is what it is - it's talk... You ask any player, honestly, if trash talk's gonna affect how hard they play, because if a little trash talk affects how hard they can play, it just lets us know that they were holding back or weren't playing harder or as hard as they could.

That's why I play basketball. To play a lot of minutes, and to help my team win.

Football is an emotional game, and that is why we love it, but part of the work I have to do is to control that emotion both for me and my players.

I live to be in these matches.

Occasionally, when I come off during a game, I get a little bit angry. But it's only because I want to play in every game and every minute to help my team-mates.

I don't have friends when I'm on the court, besides my team.

No, I don't get nervous when I play basketball.

My main focus is playing football and giving it all I got. I'm trying to go out there and make plays and help my team win.

I have confidence in my game. I can get up and run the floor to the best of my ability, and above all, I'm going to play my hardest.

You don't want to let the other team feed off your outward physical demeanor. But at the same time, you can't go out and play this game and not expect to just be angry and be competitive and be excited and have that fire in your belly.

I'm naturally fired up. I'm naturally excited to play each and every time I lace the shoes up.

I stay in character at all times regardless of whoever's playing well, the team isn't playing well. if we're up or down, I'm going to stay in character.

You can't hold up in a FIBA game if you don't have great competitive spirit.

I love competition, but my approach to the game was to never make it personal. It was business. It was what I did, so it didn't matter who the opposing team was, or who the receiver was. I approached it as business and I never let myself get outside of that.

I've played in Boston and New York, and it doesn't matter if you're sick, aching - once you step on that field, you're a completely different animal.

Yeah, I get frustrated. But I try not to let those frustrations get out into the media or get out onto the court in my play.

There's no crying in basketball!

We always have to show our character on the pitch, and I show my feelings.