Terry Rozier Quotes

The mismatch is not what gets you beat. What gets you beat is giving up the uncontested, open shot.

LeBron's probably the best player in the world, so you just have to make it tough for him, make him take tough jump shots and things like that.

I'm one of the best defenders to ever play basketball, so I'm still the first option on defense.

Defense is one man guarding the ball and four others helping him

The NBA has never drafted a player for defense. At any position, even at center.

I think it's all machismo - 'Come on, you've got to guard your guy, man. If you can't guard your guy, then you can't play defence.' A lot of it is accountability, where you say, 'Hey, you're matched up with him. Go do your job.' The zone kind of sometimes moves a lot of pieces around.

That's how you get better on defense; not just 'oh, man, my guy beat me,' but you have to think about, 'okay, my man beat me, so I either have to pick up the next man, or I'm going to give somebody a foul.

In the playoffs, it's not going to be pretty. There's going to be some games where you don't score. But are you going to take a charge for a teammate?

Defense all starts with the ball and the rim-protector is the last resort, the last line of defense. I take pride in that.

As someone who has carved out a career in this league by making winning plays, being tough on defense and just generally doing the dirty work for my team, I always hesitate to say any player is unguardable. I just hate that term.

Really what we've done is establish a tradition in Carolina of playing defense.

In the NBA, if you can't defend your position, they're going to go at you over and over again.

I've always loved blocking shots.

Once the Hack-a-Shaq works once, you know I'm going to see it again. The only thing worse for basketball than that defense is the Lack-a-Shaq offense, where I have to go to the bench because of foul trouble. There is no fun in that.

Regardless of how well you can be offensively, if you have a great defense, you can deal with any offense.

Good basketball always starts with good defense!

I knew Rick Pitino was going to make them play that outbreak, monkey defense. He's been doing it all his life.

We got to stop people. We go ahead and we score 100 points every night, but we give up more. Our whole thing was, we know we can score, and we have to start having some kind of fun on the defensive end. Everybody want to play offense. Not too many people want to play defense. Defense is ego, pride, and that's the way we've been coming out, just taking the challenge. Man-on-man first, and having each other's back when a guy gets beat.

In all the research you do as a coach, studying other coaches and championship-type situations, you find that all those teams combined talent with great defense. You've got to stop other teams to win.

To those who don't think defense is important, you'll get the best seat on the bench.

When I was 17, I made the decision to have a good attitude. I was a junior in high school; the coach said I was going to be the captain of my basketball team. I thought – that surprised me because I wasn’t the best player. John Thomas was better than me, and I was probably second or third best player. And I kept thinking, “Why am I going to be the captain?” I think everybody else was thinking that too. And the coach then answered, “The reason John is going to be the captain is he has the best attitude on the team. He encourages others, he believes we can win, he never gives up.”

I asked them if it wasn't too much trouble, if I wasn't being too pushy, if they could execute what we were trying to do. And if it didn't make them too angry, if they also wanted to play some defense on the other end, that would be great.

Don't give up. You're going to get kicked in the teeth. A lot. Learn to take a hit, then pick yourself up off the floor. Resilience is the true key to success.

We'll not give up even if we're 12 points behind with one game left.

It is most important in creative science not to give up. If you are an optimist you will be willing to "try" more than if you are a pessimist.