Kawhi Leonard Quotes

Personal honors never meant much to Bill Russell, one of America's most successful athletes with 2 college titles, 1 Olympic gold medal and 11 - count 'em, 11 - N.B.A. championships with the Boston Celtics.

I was a professional athlete, the best baseball player in the world at one point.

From a personal point of view I want some medals because that is what you aim for when you start out playing.

I want people to think of me as one of the game's greatest players.

Maya Moore is one of the greatest champions in basketball, male or female.

LeBron will not likely win six rings.

I'm good friends with Tim Duncan.

To put it another way, Michael Jordan was a gym rat.

Pau is one of the best big men in the game. I mean, Pau Gasol is going to be in the Hall of Fame.

The best player I ever coached was Gary Payton.

I'd love to be in the Hall of Fame one day and win Super Bowl rings, or even one... and stay healthy.

If I won a second Olympic title, maybe I would be tempted to go after a third.

Kevin Garnett was a great player, but he wasn't Kobe Bryant.

LeBron James is one of the best players in the league - and one of the best players to ever play the game.

As a league player, for myself, you strive to win a comp. I'm lucky enough to have achieved that... but most sportspeople would love to go to the Olympics, and I haven't achieved that.

I definitely want to be, long time down the road when my career ends, whenever somebody mentions a top-five center or top-five power forward, they always got to mention my name. That's how I want to be remembered.

LeBron is making a case for himself to be one of the greatest players to ever play.

I'm really excited about Jordan Spieth. Like a great in any sport, when the moment is the biggest, he performs his best.

Now I want to push on, I don't want to be remembered for just winning one world title, I want to go on and win as many big tournaments as possible.

All I ever wanted to do was play cricket for England and be successful.

I expected to be a pretty good NBA point guard and hopefully win a championship. But MVP and all this stuff? Not really.

Kobe Bryant has always been my favorite player, and he was drafted No. 13, too, in 1996.

I want to be the next Paul Pierce.

It's hard not to respect Kobe Bryant's game: He's one of the all-time greats.

Magic Johnson is one of the greatest players to ever play... he's the best point guard to ever play, so I can learn a lot of things from him.