Jim Boeheim Quotes

There's no nights off in the NBA. That's what makes it so special. That's why everyone loves the game.

I know I can play in the NBA, and I can be a very good player in the NBA.

I want to get into the NBA and make a name for myself.

I believed I could play in the NBA.

It's a league where guys are trying to play to the best of their ability, whether you're a superstar or trying to make the NBA.

People don't understand how hard it is to get to the NBA and that's where I want to be.

Millions of guys play millions of basketball games every day of the week at the playground or the YMCA. But LeBron James gets $20 million a year because he can jam on all of those guys. We're always going to want to see LeBron and Kobe go at it.

If someone were to ask me before I made the NBA, you going to have to go through all this, you're going to have to sign your soul away to play in the league, I still would have done it.

I mean, it's very difficult up there in the NBA.

Getting to the NBA really helped me personally on a lot of levels. I liked it so much that I wanted to stay there.

I'm just playing basketball. I just want to be a great player. That's it. That's all I'm thinking about. If the other stuff comes, it comes, but I'm just fortunate to play in the NBA Finals and just to play basketball, period.

In the NBA you better come to play every night, where in the NBDL the talent level just isn't there and maybe you have guys taking a night off.

I want to play in the NBA. I'm dead serious.

My dream is to play someday in the NBA.

It was my dream for a long time to play in the NBA. When I was drafted, it was a challenge for me. I decided to go and see where I was compared to the best players in the world.

I think when I moved to the United States and saw how serious basketball was and how good I was compared to everyone else. You just came from Canada and you're top five in the country; you're young and everyone says you can be a pro. That's when I started thinking: if I work hard, the dream can come true.

My dream is to play in the NBA.

I want to go to the NBA and be an All-Star, to be honest with you.

Some people are born and train their whole life to be an NBA player. But some people, if it doesn't work out, then they have no other option.

Until you're a rookie, you don't know what NBA game shape is.

Given a full summer to practice basketball, and especially my jump shot, I know that I could play in the NBA and do well.

I've won a championship on every level except the NBA. It's frustrating to have not gotten that in the first two years.

I'm going to be honest, playing in D-League games is tough.

I knew I could hang on in the NBA, but I wasn't going to play.

You've got to work your way into the NBA. Guys like Seth Curry, it took him a couple years in the G-League.