Marcus Morris Quotes

I just try and make the right play. It led to me leading the country in points and assists.

Music is just sound - what's more important to me is behavior. I'm watching these play-offs - basketball - it's interesting to watch behavior, underneath all the movements and everything like that. They go into the audience and show some of the parents of the players and all that.

When I started to play football as far I was concerned I just played football. I didn't want all the stuff around it, the press and that.

That's how I grew up. Just play defense - and make a basket.

College football and particularly the quarterback position is a performance-based deal.

I think the Pistons have such a well rounded team, which is why they're so successful. All you have to do is look at the stats defensively and at their rebounding and scoring.

I played softball. I was on an all-star team. I traveled with the team. I loved it.

Everyone knows the game is about the players.

I was captain of the volleyball team and the basketball team, and I ran track.

The game overall has gotten so much better, stronger, more physical parts to the game.

The truth of basketball is done in competition and fundamentals and team, but there's a lot of other junk that goes around the game.

Quite frankly, I don't miss standing in the box or standing on the field playing.

I think I was the best baseball player I ever saw.

I had eleven varsity letters. I loved basketball the best, but cross-country is a little more under your control.

The players are out here to help win games and to improve, not to make a movie. They're not actors. They're players.

I like to make statements on the field.

What does it prove, running in the AAU meet?

That's why I play basketball. To play a lot of minutes, and to help my team win.

I was always most of the time working in clubs as player and coach to win titles.

I'm just a basketball player going out there and trying to get wins.

Basketball is so unique. It's both a team and an individual sport.

I love the game of basketball. I love being able to work every day. I love being able to watch film, be a student of the game. It may not show emotionally, but I just love that I'm able to do this.

You want to score in every game and to fight hard.

Basketball is a lifelong game. You continue to learn from the game day in and day out, and all along the way, you get better.

I actually felt bad because I was dunking the ball so much. I led the league in dunks one year, and they told me that was the wrong thing to do.