Al Horford Quotes

I'm still going to have to go out and score, but defensively hopefully I can make them a little bit better.

Obviously I haven't been shooting the ball as well as I want to, so I just try to take it to the basket and be aggressive and try to make a play.

When I'm in the pick-and-roll, I'm looking to be a playmaker first and to score second. When I'm playing off the ball and I catch the ball, I'm looking to be a scorer first and a playmaker second.

This year I've just been aggressive. I still have that mindset of passing the ball, and being aggressive and attacking to the basket is going to draw more attention, and that way I can find my teammates. Being in attack mode is something I try to bring into every single game, and that's what's making me be so successful.

To score points, you need a lot of consistent effort over the course of the game. If you're throwing it or running it in, it's not a big difference in terms of the score at all, obviously. But turnovers limit your scoring. That's the problem with turnovers.

I'm not a guy that's going to shoot 10 3s a game - I like to get to the basket. But some of those shots I do gotta take. Some of those shots I gotta let fly.

It comes to the point where, if a midrange shot is there, I'm going to take it. If I'm open, I have to shoot that shot. That's a great shot for the team and myself.

Regardless of what you do, or who you have, at the end of the day you have to be able to execute better than the defense does in order to score points.

To be a great player and a great scorer, you have to find ways to get yourself open and get shots off. It's a dog fight.

Whoever I'm playing against, I go in and try to stop their best scorer and try to get myself going on the offensive end.

I think there's a lot that goes into an offense, obviously.

I'm not better when I force shots. I'm going to take them as they come. They are really sagging in there, trying to take me out of the game. It's my job to find guys. I want to be aggressive and take my shots, but I can't force them.

I'm not out there to be blocking shots or fighting guys. I'm out there to produce offensively.

Everyone does things differently on offense. Everyone's goal is to score points.

If I were a high school coach, I would put my best players on offense. The best athletes on my team, I would give them the ball and score points. I wouldn't play them on defense. I would play them where they can get the ball and score points.

Whatever the offense dictates to allow me doing what I or this offense needs to do to win games, I'm going to do it.

I played number 6 in rugby league so I had the ball quite a lot. I tried to make the plays, so you are in the action.

If you're winning and can stay on the field offensively and move the ball, that's what we want.

You take your shots when you have them, and I threw a lot of touchdowns, but I'm always going to take care of the football in the red zone.

As a player I was taught the importance of working four or five passes within your team and then stretching the play. That's something I believe in strongly as a coach.

To be able to finish opportunities that I do get in the paint, that makes a difference.

For me, I read and react. I think when I have time and space, I'm a threat to score or a threat to make a really nice play.

I have to make sure that we're in the right plays and I can get the ball out quickly and get into our playmakers' hands.

Ultimately, the yards really don't matter. So you have to score enough points, and I have been fortunate in my career to have been around some really good play callers, starting with Gary Kubiak and then going with Kyle Shanahan and Sean McVay, and that was always at the forefront of our minds: How can we create explosive plays?

It's always important to be on the scoresheet and also to make assists.