Top 107 Quotes & Sayings by Andre Iguodala
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Last updated on April 14, 2025.
It's definitely important for kids to learn in many different settings.
I owe a lot to my teammates.
As long as I keep working hard, the sky will be the limit.
The biggest thing is becoming a better player and proving your doubters wrong.
Especially as pro athletes, at the highest level, what we put into our bodies plays a huge part in our performance.
Ben Horowitz, he's the guy. He's really big into hip-hop, and he's a brainiac.
It's natural to me. I played point guard my whole life up until my senior year of high school. Most people don't know that. It's just in my game.
I used to be PlayStation only, but Xbox 360 is really cool, so we play 'Live' and 'Tiger.'
It's important to dabble in things that interest you, and for me, I'm interested in the tech space that is here in Silicon Valley, fashion and golf.
I was always a guy who could score the ball as a kid, but everybody wanted to score. And I always wanted to be different in some type of way.
When I played, I just wanted to guard the best player, and I didn't want him to score. That was just it, just competing. Along the way, it just kept building that I could be a great defender.
The sixth man, the position, I don't have a problem with, but the award - it's not that it's not important, but being singled out, it's like affirmative action or something like that to me. So, it's like, whatever.
I'm just really excited to play basketball in America and to be free and all that.
The majority of NBA players' upbringing, there's not much financial education.
I really don't care what people call me. I don't like 'Iggy,' but I'm used to it now.
People ask what message I have for kids, and it's simple: Just go outside.
My whole life, I've felt like I can do anything on the basketball court, from playing point guard in high school to having to play center one year in high school, doing everything in college and going through different roles in Philadelphia.
Seattle was my favorite team growing up, so I know a little bit about Coach Karl and his history. He's one of the best coaches in the game, well-respected by much of his peers and much of his players.
Michael Jordan and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar were the two guys with unstoppable moves.
I feel like golf has brought me some peace.
You see a lot of finesse players in our league who have a lot of success.
I don't think I can coach.
Philly will always have a special place in my heart, and I will cherish the great memories with the city and my teammates there.
When you get to college, they're never teaching you how to start a credit line or get a loan on a car, things of that nature.
Yoga helps me with basketball, but it helps me outside of it more than anything.
I'm a tennis fan, so I like Roger Federer. He's always two or three steps ahead, so he's hitting a shot, but he's also thinking about the next two shots. So I try to be in that frame of mind - to always be ahead.
A lot of sixth men have more responsibility, and they've made more of an impact sometimes than 80 percent of the rest of the guys on the team, so it's just a name.
When I was growing up, there wasn't too much technology. There weren't so many channels that we were glued to on TV. We had to go outside and create our games. Kids had the habit of being active and exercising, just enjoying the fresh air.
That's the number one thing for a guy for a new coach coming in. You've really got to buy into the system and believe it's going to work because, if you don't, it's going to cause conflict, and you're not always going to be on the same page as the other guys on the team or with the coach.
Because of my Nigerian heritage, Jumia's use of technology to deliver innovative online services to consumers and improve the quality of everyday life in Africa is very important to me. I'm thrilled to be a part of this unique enterprise that is shaping the future of digital Africa.
They make documentaries like 'Fast Food Nation.' The food our kids are eating in schools, the vending machines kids go to a lot, the portions of food that American restaurants are serving that are bigger than anywhere else in the world - it's kind of crazy.
I understand that, in this league, there are a lot of guys who can be All Stars, be superstars, so timing and circumstance plays a huge role.
My game has really picked up in the NBA.
You've got organizations out there that are consistently at a high level. They're known to play the right way at the right time.
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.
In every sector of business, it's really hard to build something where you can get on a good run. In sports, it's even harder because you only have a small window for an athletic career.
It's similar to basketball: when you go to different gyms and win or lose, you learn something new. So when kids get out of the classroom, go to a new environment and meet different people, it opens their eyes to new things, and they have fun learning.
In high school, I figured I'd get a few extra baskets by getting steals. I would just pressure up the ball.
I just want to play ball. As long as people like the way I play, I'm cool.
I wanted to be the best player, so I thought in order for me to be the best player, I had to guard the best player on the court.
I've had a lot of help... from Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, venture capitalists. They've helped me out a ton.
If I get on the golf course, my basketball game is a direct reflection of how many rounds of golf I can get. So, the more rounds of golf, the better I play.
NBA players, we're directly involved in the tech world whether we know it or not. Media content and wearables directly influence us every day.
I'm wearing a blazer, like, all the time. That's my go-to - a blazer - and I can just figure out if I want to wear jeans or slacks. Turn it into a suit.
It's a really good place for me to be, on the golf course.
The key to success is to find things that you have a passion for and would enjoy doing, even if you weren't getting paid to do it.
The Spurs, obviously - you look at an organization like that and say that's what you want to be consistent, because they've become consistent. That's what you start striving for night in and night out.
It's the nature of basketball sometimes: every player and coach are going to have run-ins.
I'm always training. I've been told that I don't take enough time off.
When things aren't going right, I can get out on the golf course, and when things are going really good on the court, I can go and enjoy the scenery, enjoy the weather. And when I'm too high, I can have golf humble me and beat me up a little bit.
Every player goes through streaks where they're just not making their shots. It may last two games, it may last ten games, and a lot of times, it's something off the court that is bothering you, or coach might cut your minutes for some unknown reason.
There are a lot of guys who average a lot of points, but they make the game hard for themselves, and they make the game hard for their teammates, and that's why you never really see them win or get deep in the playoffs.
It's just something I pride myself on as a basketball player, having that knowledge, being the guy who can go to any situation and make the situation better for that team.
Most of the time, it's easy for us basketball players to adjust to our situation.
I'm pretty fast getting up and down the court, especially with Andre Miller.
I'm a huge tennis fan, so the game I play the most is 'Top Spin.' You really have to know how to play tennis to get good at this game - whether you want to hit a forehand or a backhand, when's the best time to hit a slice - it's so real.
I got a yoga mat, I do yoga twice a week. I do both regular and hot yoga. Lululemon has an extra large yoga mat, longer and wider, so it fits me.
With the exception of maybe Vegas or Miami once or twice, other than that, it's all the same to me. I can't hear anything in the club with the loud music, so you're in there, and you're like, 'I can't hear you because of the loud music.' I hate that, yelling back and forth. And I don't drink, so it's kind of pointless.
It's a real accomplishment for me, personally, to be named to the All-Star team.
Guys on Team U.S.A. were calling me Iggy just to mess with me. I've been called that since I was a kid. I don't care.
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