Tracy McGrady Quotes

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

Everybody wants to play late, everybody wants to be clutch.

I think I've always been a player who's done better in the second half, who's done better in the fourth quarter. That's the fun time to play, when everything you've worked for the whole game boils down to those last few possessions.

I loved to hit with men on base and with the game on the line.

I know I have the ultimate eye of confidence to take a shot down the stretch if a coach needs me to do it.

I've always been kind of a fourth-quarter guy.

Those are the moments people remember at the end of the game: You make a big shot. 'Yeah, he made a big shot.' I feel like those are the moments I work for and make sure I'm always ready for.

The big-time player makes big-time plays in big-time games and that's what we need to keep doing.

I'm the type of person where, at the end of the game, if there's 10 seconds left, and you need to get somebody the ball, and you're behind by one, give me the ball. Get me the ball every single time.

When games get tight in the playoffs, especially in the Finals, there's no space. There's no clean looks.

I've always considered myself a crunch-time player. I just love having the ball in my hands. Everyone in the arena knows the ball is supposed to be in your hands and you still make it. It's the odds. I love the odds.

In the closing seconds of every game, I want the ball in my hands for the last shot - not in anybody else's, not in anybody else's in the world.

With the game on the line. I want the ball in my hands.

During one of the 4th quarter huddles, LeBron said to him, 'It doesn't matter what happens to this point. No one is going to remember how many points you had or what type of game you had. Just help us make some plays to win this thing.' And he made some big plays.

Sammy Sosa's a September player, so you have to watch out for him. It's crunch time, time to make history.

When you look at all of the great players who ever played the game, they all had that other gear that they could go to, and it makes a world of difference.

There comes a point in the game where you gotta make a play or you gotta do something to get your team over the hump, and when that time comes you gotta be able to do it.

Kobe enjoys that situation. Stepping up and making the big basket or being involved in a key play.

We talked about some of our experiences, focusing, hanging together down the stretch, important games. It's not necessarily who has the most talent but what team sticks together and executes their fundamentals the best.

Look at guys like Larry Bird and George Brett and John McEnroe; that's what they did in their careers. They all wanted to be the guy under the microscope late in the game or late in the match. So you just take on that know-how that that's part of your responsibility, and you learn that's what makes it exciting. That's what makes it fun!

You always wonder if you can make plays at the end.

Big-time players make big-time plays in big-time spots. That's who I want to be.

When you have an opportunity to help your team in crunch time - as a kicker - that's a dream come true.

When it's late in a game and things are tough and you need a basket, someone has to step up. That player has to have the ability to create opportunities and draw fouls.

I can't take a game-winner in practice. I can't shoot free throws in practice that simulates the game. There's no crowd; there's no nothing.