Kawhi Leonard Quotes

My focus is to start my game with my defense every night.

A lot of guys are offensive minded, which is good at some points and times but bad at others - at lots of others. I wish I could say I want everybody to play defense as hard as I do. It's not a reality.

It's a scary thing when a team don't know who to match up to, whose night it's going to be on the offensive end.

Regardless of what you do, or who you have, at the end of the day you have to be able to execute better than the defense does in order to score points.

Both sides of the game, defensively and offensively, are important.

If you have a defensive concept, you're going to play defense. If you don't have a defensive concept, and you have an offensive concept, then you're going to play offense.

You have to defend the perimeter guys otherwise you're going to struggle getting playing time or staying on the court.

I realize the responsibility of being a starting point guard.

Really what we've done is establish a tradition in Carolina of playing defense.

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.

It starts on the defensive end, but it's also just the ball movement and holding everyone accountable.

Sometimes as a player you have a different view and you can't believe what we did as a defensive unit.

Regardless of how well you can be offensively, if you have a great defense, you can deal with any offense.

We got to stop people. We go ahead and we score 100 points every night, but we give up more. Our whole thing was, we know we can score, and we have to start having some kind of fun on the defensive end. Everybody want to play offense. Not too many people want to play defense. Defense is ego, pride, and that's the way we've been coming out, just taking the challenge. Man-on-man first, and having each other's back when a guy gets beat.

The Knicks left me open a lot of times the last time we played them, and I was just making sure I took the shots that were there.

Young quarterbacks do well because they have a great defense.

We've been playing ugly. Without all of our bodies, we've been kicking it all over the shop, but fortunately we've been able to make the big buckets and rely on our defense for once.

Defense to me is the key to playing baseball.

I'm still going to have to go out and score, but defensively hopefully I can make them a little bit better.

I go out there with whatever the coaches call, and whatever they do, I just go out there, and I'm the player. Coaches coach, and players play.

You can't try a man-to-man if you don't practice it.

I think there's a lot of different ways to score points and win football games and be efficient offensively, just like there is on defense and special teams. That's what makes this great game so special.

It doesn't matter how many goals you score; one goal is enough if you don't let one in your net.

The job of the offense is not to score points. The job of the defense is not to stop the other team from scoring points.

There's two facets of this game. You know, if I'm not making shots, OK, then I have to do something on defense. So if I'm missing shots or making shots, it doesn't affect my overall game.