Steve Blake Quotes

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.

I think everybody's goal is to make the NBA. My goal is to be a star.

Playing in the NBA has been a dream of mine for a long time, so to finally get to do that is amazing.

It's always been my goal to make it to the NBA.

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

A lot of people don't understand that playing in the NBA, the toughest thing is to win an NBA championship. I was in the NBA 15 years. I'd been in the playoffs. I'd been in the Finals. But it took me 15 years to finally win one.

What kid who was playing basketball didn't have the dream about going to the NBA? It's the biggest and final step.

I wanted to go the NBA and win a championship because I've never seen a grown man cry the way Scottie Pippen and Michael Jordan cried when they won a championship.

I've been blessed to be in the NBA.

It's been a dream come true, you know, just making it to the NBA and being drafted by a great franchise like Boston.

Everybody wants to be in the NBA. That's the whole goal. I'm no different than that.

I won at every level - all the way since I started playing the game of basketball at nine. I've won at every level, won championships at every level. And, you know, it won't be fulfilled until I win at the highest level.

I loved going to the Knicks because we won the Atlantic Division championship. We went from winning 21 games or 19 games to winning 52 games in a short period of time. I loved coaching Patrick Ewing and Charles Oakley and all those guys.

I remember as a young player I had this dream of playing 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 know I can play in the NBA, and I can be a very good player in the NBA.

I would love to bring the state of Utah their first championship. I think that's one thing I've always wanted.

I think that in Atlanta I was hoping that things would have worked out. Once I saw that things weren't going to work out, I saw what was going to be the best situation for me to try to win an NBA championship.

Making it to the NBA is a big goal in my life, and one day I hope to conquer it.

Coming from Oakland, Calif., I never thought I'd be a Hall of Famer. I wasn't thinking about basketball like that.

If I'm able to get drafted by the New York Knicks, it would be a blessing.

It would have been harder for me to get rookie of the year in Cleveland than it would've been in Minnesota.

For me, when I was in high school, that was my ultimate dream, was to make it to the NBA.

All I wanted to do is coach in the NBA. I didn't want anything to do with college basketball.

At first, I was thinking about just getting to the NBA, just watching the NBA, being one of the All-Stars in the NBA.