Gary Payton Quotes

I just try to make the right play, stay aggressive and defensively just do what I do. I make sure I talk to everyone and control the paint.

I'm busy working on every aspect of my game - defense, shooting, rebounding - but I really want to become a better overall team player. Help my teammates become better players out on the court in order to win more ball games.

I've worked on my game to the point where anything they've asked of me, I try to come through and do it for them, whether that's defending, making plays, being a decoy, or knocking down shots and being a scorer.

I learned a lot of things that made me be a better player and have more of a variety on the pitch.

You can't just sit back and think you're gonna pack the paint in and win games. You've gotta guard that three-point line.

I do a lot of things to help my team winning - set screens, roll into the rim, finishing. I think I can be even more than that.

When I watch kids play basketball, they don't know how to think the game. They know what it should look like, but they don't know why.

In football, it's the ultimate team sport. You have to have good people around you as a quarterback for things to happen.

I feel more comfortable with the ball in my hands, playing the point guard. But I like playing the 2, too. I think I bring tough defense and the ability to score and also get my teammates the ball to score.

The coach's job is to get the best players and get them to play together.

I like every aspect of defense; I enjoy shutting down the offense.

Center is a very tough position to play.

Look, coaching is about human interaction and trying to know your players. Any coach would tell you that. I'm no different.

You can have great players, but if they don't want to be coached, what are you going to do?

Defense is a definite part of the game, and a great part of defense is learning to play it without fouling.

It’s like volleyball. There are setters and spikers. The chief of staff is a setter, putting the ball in the air so the Senator can spike it.

I was a coach, and I put a lot of education and experience into coaching.

A coach coaches. That's what he does. That's what he's good at. He's not managing people. He manages his players, but that's different.

Really, coaching is simplicity. It's getting players to play better than they think that they can.

Just hearing somebody's voice in center field, it helps our guards out to know where they need to go, when the screen is coming, when the back door is coming, when the flare is coming. When different things like that happen and we're talking, it helps us all out in the long run.

I think there's a lot of different ways to score points and win football games and be efficient offensively, just like there is on defense and special teams. That's what makes this great game so special.

Every coach talks to their players. Imagine not talking to Lionel Messi - that would be ridiculous.

Padoin is proving himself to be a great professional. He's tactically intelligent, and it's tough to play in front of the defense.

I think as a central defender you grow as a player.

I just love playing with point guards with high Iqs.