Jalen Brunson Quotes

When I was 5 and playing against 11-year-olds, who were bigger, stronger, faster, I just had to figure out a way to play with them.

It's going to be the year of the sharp elbow and the quick tongue.

Every day, you got to do adjustments. Every pitch. You got to do what it takes.

I see myself used in terms of reading mismatches. If it's small, go inside. If it's big, come outside. And if it's in between, then work him, make him think you're going outside, go back inside. Just play chess.

I think what we focus on is every game is a different challenge, and you have to find ways to put yourself in position to win, and you have to have a resourcefulness, and it's not always going to go according to play.

Wits always win, man, in the battle of brain versus brawn.

I feel like I can adapt to any defense.

You are not always going to be able to knock it and run. You are going to have to use the other foot, mix things up, use the brain.

Basketball players can adapt to any situation.

Brains and a sense of humor trump everything else.

Knowing some guys are way bigger than you, way faster than you, you have to find other ways to do what you want to do.

The genius is making a way out of no way.

It's not resources but resourcefulness that ultimately makes the difference.

Adapt your techniques to an idea, not an idea to your techniques.

Instead of being intimidated by the limitations, be inspired to find new ways around them.

There's a key for every door, and if you can't find it, you can make one. That's always an option.

It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.

When you play against dirty players or very tough players, it's easy to escape because you know what they're going to do. But when the player is tough but intelligent, it's much more difficult.

I love the idea of a movie hero in a thriller who is able to get ahead by just his brilliance, and not with a gun or by being an action hero.

It's very much like filmmaking always is-you're always asked to do something that you're not sure you know how to do. So you make an educated guess as to what you think will work and you hope between that and plan B, that you can end up with a product that's really good.

When a man keeps beating me to the draw mentally, he begins to get glamorous.

We can always find creative ways to do things.

I'm that person who says, 'No matter what the problem is, there's a solution.' That's the way my brain is wired. If someone says to me, 'Well, that's not possible. It can't happen,' I say, 'Yes it is. I'm going to sit here and show you that it can.'

Tactics mean doing what you can with what you have.

Sometimes when you're given hurdles, it makes you more creative in the end.