George Vecsey Quotes

I want to be like Johnny Bach or Pete Carril or Tex.

That's a dream of mine, to be able to coach at the NBA level.

I'm just playing basketball. I just want to be a great player. That's it. That's all I'm thinking about. If the other stuff comes, it comes, but I'm just fortunate to play in the NBA Finals and just to play basketball, period.

For me to stay in basketball, it would just have to be a veteran team.

I love playing basketball. And to be able to continue to play as a job, that's the best to me.

My dad played junior college basketball, and he always showed me clips of Michael Jordan.

Chick Hearn was my favorite broadcaster ever - he's the one who taught me to think basketball, how to love basketball.

Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.

Every time I'd ever stepped on a basketball court, AAU, middle school, high school, I always thought about the NBA.

I've always been a basketball player. My earliest memories are of playing basketball. I was born playing it. It's why I'm so comfortable on the floor.

I don't really differentiate from big-time college basketball to any other kind of basketball. It's basketball. It's fundamentals and defense and shooting - they're all the same.

I feel like I've had 20 years of experience at a very high level, if you throw in college, playing overseas, I've played in hundreds and hundreds of games.

Well, my last year was 04-05 with the Heat, and I relaxed for a few years, and I said, 'Well, what am I going to do?' I've got to do my passion, and my passion is basketball.

It's a different animal when you're in the NBA. You come in this league and you've got 7-footers who play 7 foot who are going to protect that rim come hell or high water.

All I wanted to do is coach in the NBA. I didn't want anything to do with college basketball.

I want to have a long career in the NBA. First, I want to be an All-Star, and hopefully one day I can win a ring with the New York Knicks.

I want everyone to know: You can play basketball in Canada and you can still get to where you need to go.

I played baseball too, and flag football, but basketball was the easiest for me. Then when I was 12, my dad asked me what I wanted to do, and I said 'Be an NBA player.' Since then, he started training me.

The NBA fits my game.

I've had a number of kids in the NBA that I've coached and a number of other great players that I've coached.

I'm playing basketball. It's my dream job. So I'm a pretty happy camper.

It's just basketball. It's what I do. I've been doing this since I was 4.

I've been shooting my whole life. I don't remember a team where I wasn't playing basketball. It's something I really enjoy, and I shoot for hours at a time.

You have so many players all around the world in the NBA, a lot of different generations. If you don't take basketball as a tool in your life, you can get lost. I know a lot of teammates, a lot of players that had a great career and after that career, they just get lost.

There were great European players that were great basketball players that did not make it in the NBA... This is the best league in the world.