Tim Duncan Quotes

I've always gotten doubled. Coming off the bench, people try to eliminate bench scorers, so that's been my experience for years now. You just find ways to beat it.

In high school, I figured I'd get a few extra baskets by getting steals. I would just pressure up the ball.

Buffon, for us, is the captain. He is the player with the most experience and we are lucky to have the man who I believe is the best goalkeeper of all time defending our goal. We always try to make sure that he has to make very few saves, but it is extremely reassuring having him in goal.

Sometimes it is difficult to play against teams who just drop back and try to defend.

In Italy, they are incredibly competitive. It may be that their game is more defensive, but they defend so well; here in Germany, there is more speed and intensity. In England, they are more direct, very box-to-box.

In the NBA they've taken away so much of the hand-checking and the physicality of how guys are able to guard you. So if you touch me, I'm gonna throw the ball toward the rim and get shots.

In the past, you would have been classed as a sweeper if you were put in the middle of a three-man defence.

I always had my feet in two places when I was doing amateur dance in Seattle.

I like attacking football, but that's not the only thing the game's about.

There's a difference between batting at number four position and batting in the lower order.

Coach Marinelli's defense is incredible.

I've played against Aguero a couple of times. He starts behind you so he's always offside, but you don't know where he is. You look behind to the right and he'll go to your left. He's so tough to find. You've got to learn and work out how to stop them.

Over a long time, I've honestly had enough of people saying Arsenal's defence is not good enough.

I'm a 6'1' guard, but I'm blessed to have a wingspan of 6'7'. I have good lateral movement. For me, fighting over screens and using my hands, I kind of get tips on the ball. People don't understand getting a hand on the ball - not just stealing it - means a lot, especially in this league because everything happens so fast.

That's one thing I pride myself a lot more now, playing defense, I do what the team needs me to do. If we need a stop, I'll do it. That's a major, major part of my game now.

What I want is to recover the ball as near to the other box as we can, and when we have the ball, play.

I'm definitely rooting for the Heat.

Lyoto makes it very difficult to knock him out, he escapes well and moves very well.

It starts on the defensive end, but it's also just the ball movement and holding everyone accountable.

Defenses had to play us, obviously, out to the arc, but it was really, to me, my mid-range game that was probably more dangerous than my 3-point shot.

As a defender, we take pride in getting clean sheets.

If I could help the pitcher as much as I can, or I could save three to five errors a year with my defense, then that's just a big help for my teammates.

My focus in the training sessions is always about movement to create openings and opportunities. When you don't have the ball, you still need the discipline to know where you should be, who you should be marking, but when we have the ball, it is important to be able to move around.

You're going to play me different if I have the ball, even if I'm at 75, 80 percent, just for the simple fact that you do not want me to make that three. That's helping my team out.

I know we'll lead the league in defense.