Jerry West Quotes

I always try to do my job as well as I can on the pitch and thankfully it has been working.

I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do.

My main thing is I'm gonna go out there every night and give it all I got and just try to put on the best show I can. That's just the way I'm programmed and wired.

My job is just to go out and play hard every day.

I can separate very well. I can do everything I need to do as a player. I'm not the fastest guy always, or the strongest guy, or the biggest guy, but I always get the job done. I'm a workaholic.

Wherever I played, I had an opportunity to show my attributes.

For me, I always try and deliver. Regardless of the situation, I always try and play hard every time I step out on the court. If I don't deliver and play well, then I know I haven't been working hard enough.

I guarantee that if you ask anyone who is guarding me, they won't say I'm taking plays off. It's actually a compliment to me that I make the game look that easy, where people think I don't play that hard.

I do my best; I go onto the pitch and I play to the best of my ability.

What's important to us is developing the habit of playing harder than our opponent every night.

If I don't start, I'd like to try to win Sixth Man of the Year. And whenever I'm on the court, I'm just going to give it my all.

I think people know that every time I go out there, I leave it all in the ring, regardless. So I think there's a certain respect with that and I think that's just grown over the years because I feel like over the course of my career... people know that I never take a night off.

I just want to go out there and play hard every night and do my best.

When I'm on the pitch, I just want to give as good a performance as possible.

If you work hard and you're somewhat talented, you'll be successful in this league.

You've just got to bring it every night. And that's what makes the great players great.

I must do my all, try to win every game.

When I went to WWE, the level of work I put out every night was just balls to the wall.

To see professionals working hard every day, making a big commitment to the club with a desire to improve every day is something I want. That's the only way they can play with me.

A lot of fans were drawn to me because they knew that whatever the score was, I was going to run as hard as I could on every play. You don't have that now, you have guys waiting for next week or even next year.

We've got to give a quality effort every day and play better.

I'm human and I've played my butt off for ten years. I'm not a loafer, I'm not a jerk, I'm a baseball player.

If I don't practice the way I should, then I won't play the way that I know I can.

I'm one of those guys that's going to show up to the field and try my best.

What gets me upset about with the newer players is their lack of intensity. They tend to go through the motions a little bit. They don't understand that you've got to practice the way you play.