Basketball Performance Quotes

To let somebody get 30 points on you, and you feel good because you got 35 on them, that's not good for me, you know what I'm saying? If I get 35, I want him to get 12 or 14 because that means I've done something. I've done my job. I went out there and played hard and did what I had to do.

Most of basketball is in the mind. But it helps to have big hands.

I was a good shooter in college, but it's a different level here in the NBA and I'm working on getting better.

I think Paul Pierce, the way he manufactures points, is the best player the Celtics have seen thus far.

If you want to be in the game you better shoot 75% from the line.

Just to get out, put it out on the line each and every night is a great feeling for a basketball player.

If my performance down the stretch lands me on the All-NBA, which I think I'm deserving of, then so be it. I'll be happy.

They don't work with you to get better in the NBA. Either you're ready or you're out and you go to the G-League or Europe.

Everybody in the NBA works on their game. I just tried to follow that lead when I was in high school, college - and now.

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

The 76ers currently play very good basketball, and we don't. However, we are still only one win behind them. If we continue to improve, we should be on the top of our division at the end of the regular season.

Brook Lopez had a better game than Deron Williams

Some games I'm going to get more blocks or they're going to do more mistakes and give up more baskets but some games I get zero blocks and I affect 20 shots.

It's hard to play basketball when nothing is inside of you.

You always - as a basketball player, as a competitor - that's where you speak most: on the court.

Play good basketball and you are going to get guys' best games.

The chip comes from people saying I'm not good enough, or I can't score, or I'm not a real basketball player.

For us, as hoopers and as basketball players, doesn't matter the scenario, the scene. True hoopers and true basketball players are going to get out and perform.

I think the NBA, they like competitive guys.

Scoring 100 points is a lot, but I maybe could have scored 140 if they had played straight-up basketball.

Until you're a rookie, you don't know what NBA game shape is.

Elgin's game was an incredible performance, also. I don't think there's any comparison. Elgin did it without three-point lines. His game was attacking the hoop and hitting jumpers inside 20 feet. Kobe's range is unreal, and he does it his way.

Sometimes it happens, especially if you're a shooter. They say that you can't play great defense.

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

I was always happy off the court at Golden State. It was on the court that I was frustrated.