Yuta Watanabe Quotes

If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot.

Our goal is, train harder and more physical than any program in the country.

If I improve on the jump shot then I will be hard to guard.

As you keep shooting the ball, you become a better basketball player.

You've got to learn the footwork, the positioning, how to box out, how to pass, how to shoot your free throws. All these things are necessary, not to be the No. 1 player in the world, but maybe you can play against him.

I trained myself to perform on the field.

People see my body and ask me what I do to work out. I play a lot of basketball, so I'm constantly dribbling and running up the court. I take a basketball with me everywhere I go!

I'm pretty athletic and I play basketball a lot.

I was a roving guard on the Lowell Hebrew Community Center's girls' basketball team all through high school. My specialty was stealing the ball, but my only shot was a lay-up.

During the lockout year, my focus was the basics, sharpening my moves, my fundamentals.

For different roles, my condition and training and diet does alter. Depending on the role, it will really dictate the type of training I do.

I've been working on my defense and my inside game.

I can't remember what times I used to do in training because I always loved football and didn't have any interest in an athletics career. But I was always the quickest.

I think I can do everything on the basketball floor. I just gotta be consistent in what I do.

As athletes, our job is to train and compete.

I have a pretty good idea of what makes NBA players great - especially at the different positions, and where the biggest problems lie that you have to address in defending those people.

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

I'd just shoot until I got tired. I wanted to improve my outside shooting and my ball handling. I wanted to improve everything.

If you ask the guys I played with when I was little, they'll all tell you the same thing. All I did was catch and shoot. I didn't do anything else.

A lot of playcalls are for the corner 3. I thought that's something I should really work on.

I work on my recoveries, coming back into the defensive line and things like that.

I keep myself in shape. I love the game of basketball, and I really feel like it doesn't matter about your age.

When I play, there are things throughout the game that I notice, especially rebounding.

I like athletes.

I run around a lot. I shoot a lot of threes. And that's just kind of what I've done since I was really young.