Nate Robinson Quotes

When you are nervous, then you can rush things, and you don't do things as well as you'd like.

In football, it's not enough just to be amazing, but you also have to have a clear head. If you're not calm, it becomes very difficult.

You feel many things during a match. There are things that annoy you. During important games, I do not always touch the ball a lot.

When it comes down to playoff basketball, it's attention to detail.

When I come into a game in the bottom of the ninth, bases loaded, no one out and a one-run lead ... it takes people off my mind.

When time is running out and the score is close, most players are thinking, I don't want to be the one to lose the game, but I'm thinking, What do I have to do to win?

It's better to have a good player with the basketball in late game situations than to have plays.

I know there's a lot of pressure, but I'm just going to go out and play my game.

I realize the responsibility of being a starting point guard.

I believe all teams choke in certain situations.

I might be nervous off the court, being booed. But being on the court, it's my comfort zone. It's basketball. It's what I do. I'm not losing sleep over it.

When I defend, it keeps me patient and lets my game come to me on the offensive end.

Greatness for me is the ability to focus under pressure.

When you're a point guard, man, if you're not up to par, you're in a lot of trouble.

The defense will tell you who shoots the ball. If it comes down to them trying to take the ball out of my hands, I trust my teammates to go out there and make every shot.

You can see players do things in training that aren't a problem but they can't in a game situation. You have to work on it, relax and be brave.

Guys telling you to shoot it when you're open - you have nothing else to think about, but if you're open or not. That's it. As soon as you catch it, you let it fly.

For me, I try not to think about it too much, because you find that if you think about it too much, then you start to panic at every little thing that goes on in training.

Penalty kicks are so much about confidence and your mentality going into them. If you go walk up to a kick and you're not sure where you're gonna place it, or you're feeling a little uneasy, that's when you often miss it.

I tell everybody take it one game at a time.

I just try to play every game like it's Game 7 of the NBA Finals.

You can play fast but not in a hurry. As a point guard, I can dictate that.

When you have 20,000 people yelling and screaming at you, four other guys can concentrate on the floor. So every time I touch the basketball and everyone is yelling and chanting and doing things towards me, well, four other guys can concentrate.

I'm not under any pressure. I'm just a kid having fun playing basketball.

The 'enemy' in golf is tension.