Jamal Murray Quotes

Duke recruits the best basketball players. They don't recruit dunkers or highlight makers. They recruit good basketball players.

Francisco Garcia could have been a high draft choice last year, probably in the 20s. He's the best wing player I've ever coached. But he's done it the right way. He knew he had to work on his body to become a good pro. When he goes into the pros, he'll be physically ready.

There is no such thing as a perfect basketball player, and I don't believe there is only one greatest player either.

I don't think there are really enough meetings in Britain for our athletes to compete properly, and because of this a lot of the talent we have has been stunted.

I think I have the skills. I'm a great judge of talent. I just know basketball.

Sometimes I think if I had the same body and the same natural ability and someone else's brain, who knows how good a player I might have been.

You have to be wired a certain way to be a professional basketball player, and the way my body grew, something happened genetically that allowed me to become a lot more explosive.

If it wasn't for finding out that my right leg could kick a ball really far, which is what I did, I am 100 percent certain that I would be attempting to be or would be a professional wrestler.

Oh, I never knew I was going to be a great player.

I was a two-star athlete. I got looked over.

A lot of freshmen will come in and say they can do what Carmelo did, but not everybody is Carmelo Anthony. He was a special player. Syracuse was a great fit for him.

You've got to be on all-league teams before you can say that you are going to be a great basketball player.

Nobody can tell me that if players are good enough, they will come through. That is not true. There are plenty of players who are good enough.

I was honestly more talented in soccer than in basketball. I don't think I'd have gone anywhere in soccer. But I think I was more talented in soccer.

I felt like I was chosen to play basketball when I was younger.

I was a fan myself, and I know what it's like. If someone comes out of the blocks and scores 31 goals in one season, then you think, 'OK, was that a one-off, or will he do it again?'

The D-League has helped me to get better and develop as a basketball player.

Sometimes fans, sometimes even players, they don't know the game sometimes, and they look at numbers, or they use smoke-and-mirrors as far as who's a top 15 player, who's a top 20 player.

I went to a lot of college camps when I was younger... You just admire those players because they're at a higher level than you at that time.

You can tell when somebody is chosen basketball-wise. You can tell.

Given a full summer to practice basketball, and especially my jump shot, I know that I could play in the NBA and do well.

An agent won't help you get drafted higher, won't make you win more games, and won't make you faster or stronger. They all say they can, but the people who do the drafting don't talk to agents. They talk to coaches, they watch film, they talk to the people who've worked with players. They don't talk to agents.

We wanted guys who had been productive in college, and we made it a point to pick performance over potential.

I was very close to playing at an Ivy League School. The Division I schools, when a coach would come visit all he would talk about was my size.

Adam [Sandler] is a good basketball player, so he is a natural athlete, he worked with Sean Salisbury to make his footwork and delivery smooth, and he did a great job.