Top 98 Quotes & Sayings by Brandon Ingram - Page 2

I think when you have 24 hours in a day to just think about basketball all the time, that's just what I want to do. I want to fall in love with it and just do everything I can to be the best at it.

I just want to be better. Of course, I'm not satisfied... I'm just pushing every day.

Ultimately, it was always my dream to be here in the NBA. I just took it serious. I knew if I put in the work I could eventually get here.

I'll do whatever the coach wants me to do.

I try to make a name off someone before they make a name off me.

I think I can do everything on the basketball floor. I just gotta be consistent in what I do.

Playing one year under Coach K feels like you've played for three years. I learned so much from him; gained a lot of wisdom and knowledge from him.

I grew up being a Kobe fan, of course.

I can shoot the basketball, I can get to the basket.

I don't do anything else but play basketball.

On my youth teams, I always pretty good. I guess I just really started to play with some of my peers around age 8 or 9. We always battled and had fun playing in the rec leagues.

When you want to play basketball and you get paid for playing basketball, you want to do it every single day. So I don't think I'll get tired of doing it.

I just try to use my length to the best of my ability.

You're always becoming; you've never arrived. And I use that day by day just for me to work hard each and every day, and know that no matter how good I worked out today, no matter how good I thought I was today, I can always get better and always be a better person.

There are no other Kobe Bryants.

My greatest strength is my scoring ability. I've scored the ball at every level.

Of course I've been compared to Kevin Durant.

I might do a hobby or go to the movies, but everything comes back to basketball.

That's all I seek every practice and every game, to progress in some way, be coachable and try to be the best I can be for my teammates.

If you can score the ball, it doesn't really how big or small you are.

I was always around basketball, from when I was four or five years old.

Sometimes I can get lost in games.

I feel like I'm a competitor. I hate to lose.

I have the same routine every day just to make me a better basketball player, and I'm going to continue the routine just to see where it gets me and how I can reach my potential.

Of course my goal at Duke was to win the national championship, but we were shorthanded, and lost one of our big guys that was very important to the team. By the end of the season we only played about six guys. But we tried our hardest and did our best and overall had a successful season.

Without basketball, I'd have no idea what to do.

I think when you have the point guard guarding someone full court and just chasing the guy all around, always in the right spot, it just makes you want to get down in a stance and be his backup and have his help whenever he needs it. Or having the same energy that he has.

My decision to go to Duke wasn't a surprise to people who really knew me because I was always a Duke fan growing up.

I was shooting over my head. With my long arms, it was like a slingshot. Coming from college to the NBA, I was only about 180 pounds, so I was trying to push the ball to the rim from the 3-point line.

Even Coach K thinks he can be a better coach each and every day.

I like George Gervin a lot, even as a guy that played a long time ago.

I'm a believer everything happens for a reason.

Don't take for granted things.

Sometimes shots just don't go my way, but for me in my growth and as a leader, it's important for me to stay aggressive.

I think if you can score the ball, you can play at any level.

I like to play my game. I don't want to do anything out of control, out of nature.

My arm is so long, I kind of shoot over my head sometimes.

If you're not trying to win, there's no point in playing.