Basketball Position Quotes

I wanted to prove that I could be a starter. And then once I realized I was gonna be a sixth man and it wasn't gonna change, I just relished the role. I just said, 'I'm going to make it really hard on whoever it is that has to guard me these next 10-11 minutes that I'm in here.' And after a while you just create an identity.

I wouldn't call myself a real point guard.

I don't want to be called a point guard, but I can't stop it.

I'm never going to be a point guard, but you always have guards that get the rebound and take it coast-to-coast.

Me as a backup center? Hell no.

Greg Ostertag is one of the top centers on this planet!

I'm the LCL - the Last Center Left. I've been doing the same things for 13 years, but now they're flopping and falling, and the refs are falling for it, too.

There are some people saying I'm a tweener - not tall enough for a power forward and not fast enough for a three. But I feel like if I go out there and play hard, it will eliminate all that.

I think I can play power forward; I think I can play center as well.

When I came out in the draft, people kept asking me, 'So are you a small forward or a power forward?' and I was like, 'I'm a basketball player.' Period.

I've always been the tallest guy in my age group, which always made me go right down in the post.

I'm too athletic to play the dunker role at center.

I was taller than most of the kids. When I started playing basketball, my coach put me at point guard. Europeans do that sometimes.

I was an in-between size. I wasn't tall enough to be a real forward, and I probably didn't handle the ball well enough to be a point guard.

I'm a big guard, whether a 1 or 2.