Rudy Gobert Quotes

When you come off something really disappointing, you want to come back and kind of regroup and get involved in something positive right away.

Football is one of those games that definitely relates to life in a lot of ways. Everything can be going good, and just like that, you have a turnover. Things are going south, you're going the opposite direction. How are you going to recover from it? That's the beauty in this game.

Charge-taking can be one effective way to affect the rim, but the whistle's gonna blow a lot.

When I go on the basketball court, I don't think about who's guarding me.

There's two facets of this game. You know, if I'm not making shots, OK, then I have to do something on defense. So if I'm missing shots or making shots, it doesn't affect my overall game.

I can take a hit, I know I can hit back twice as hard.

Where you have a little setback or you are out of the team you're considered a different player but you know you will come out of the other side of it.

Golf is not about the quality of your good shots, it is about the quality of your bad shots.

You have to make shots to win basketball games and we didn't do that. You also have to get back on defense, so it was a double-whammy.

Derrick Rose - he's had his opportunity. He's been an MVP in the league. His efficiency isn't what it used to be.

You ain't gotta jump too high to shoot the ball.

If you can hang in games by staying close defensively, then good things can happen.

You win some, you lose some. You get hit you don't get hit, but it's not about how hard you get hit. I think it's about how hard you get hit, then still get up and deliver an even harder punch. I think that's what it is all about.

I feel like I can be one of the top defenders in the league and that's what I'm going to try to be.

Everybody is going to have tough shooting nights. It's natural.

Usually guys like Chris Paul, Lebron James, they will steal the ball from you. Stay away from those guys.

All the coaches preach about defense. Every day they talk about defense, they talk about how important it is to get stops in order to win basketball games.

I know teams are gameplanning against me, trying to not let me shoot pull-ups, basically trying to take me out of the game as much as they can.

If they're going to foul me, I'm going to step to the line and make some free throws.

I've always loved blocking shots.

I lost as amateur, I lost a bunch of times as a wrestler, and you always come back.

My focus is to start my game with my defense every night.

I'll knock down the open jumper when it's there, but I want to get after it on the defensive end.

Obviously people have guarded me a lot different because of me being able to make shots.

You've got to try to guard, make an effort to defend to the best of your ability. You have to rebound the ball, which was an area that was so critical. And they wanted you to play smart and have fun. I've kind of tried to let our people understand those are the most important things that I could possibly tell them.