Top 97 Quotes & Sayings by Danilo Gallinari

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Italian basketball player Danilo Gallinari.

Last updated on September 16, 2024.

Danilo Gallinari is an Italian professional basketball player for the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association (NBA). After spending his first four years as a professional in his native Italy, Gallinari was drafted sixth overall in the 2008 NBA draft by the New York Knicks. He played with the Knicks for two and a half seasons before being traded to the Denver Nuggets in 2011. He has also played for the Los Angeles Clippers, the Oklahoma City Thunder and the Atlanta Hawks. His nickname is Gallo, which is Italian for "rooster," but is an abbreviation of his last name.

Italian - Basketball Player | Born: August 8, 1988

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I'm tired of thinking about playoffs, playoffs, six, seven, eighth spot. I want to think about championship. That's something that we always thought when I came to Denver. That's what I felt as soon as I came to Denver coming from New York where we were not winning.

Danilo Gallinari

I want it because I love it. I loved it my whole career. I've always played with a lot of pressure, since I was a little kid. That's what I need. That's what I need to perform at a high level and that's what I need to bring the best out of me.

Danilo Gallinari

Well, Italy is huge for me. I've been going back every summer, not just to see my family, but play with the Italian National Team. So, Italy plays a huge role in my life. It will always play a huge role in my life.

Danilo Gallinari

Trying to speak correct English is not easy.

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The food in Taiwan is pretty great.

Danilo Gallinari

The thought of someone I love getting sick and dying, and me never getting a chance to see them before it's too late? That is truly my worst nightmare.

Danilo Gallinari

I know you expect a lot from me, and people expect a lot from me, but I'm not a superstar, I'm not an All-Star, I'm not LeBron, I'm not those great players.

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It's something that we need to do as players. Giving back is key. And especially because of the reactions and feelings that you get after you give back. Honestly, that feeling is better than winning a game.

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You only live one life.

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I'm just trying, honestly, to play the game as the game comes to me.

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Experience I think is a big part of getting better and being a better team and going to the playoffs and toward the championship for sure.

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The NBA is sometimes a crazy business, and we've seen crazy trades and crazy stuff happening the same night of the draft.

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I think I have to be stronger mentally.

Danilo Gallinari

They never talked about my defense. But every coach I've played for, I make them say 'Oh, I didn't know about your defense. We're going to put you on the best players. And the other team thinks that you're not good, so they're going to attack you. But we love that.'

Danilo Gallinari

You don't play basketball for 20, 30 years. You only play, if you're lucky, 10 years. So that is my time.

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I've been to Vietnam and China, so it's great to see new places and experience the culture and people.

Danilo Gallinari

I travel all around the world every summer.

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I'm just focusing on playing the game the right way.

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My focus since I've been playing basketball is winning.

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Winning is obviously better than losing.

Danilo Gallinari

If at the end of the season it gets better, I'll take that over shooting good at the beginning and not shooting good towards the end of the season.

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I live for basketball.

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I don't like to go shopping.

Danilo Gallinari

Since I was 16 years old entering professional league, all the eyes were on me. And in Milan you have to win... every game.

Danilo Gallinari

I got my driver's license in Milan, so if you can drive in Milan you can drive all over the world.

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I'm always the first player from either team to take the court for the opening tip, and usually when I get out there the three refs are standing in the same spots every time - one at half court, and then one near each free throw line.

Danilo Gallinari

The love and interest the Clippers showed me was amazing.

Danilo Gallinari

Learning from different cultures and talking to people is such a great experience, and getting to use basketball to do that is special.

Danilo Gallinari

My only focus and our only focus as players is to be focused on our job, in the gym and do what we're supposed to do. We get paid a lot of money to play basketball, and that's what we got to focus on.

Danilo Gallinari

Whatever the coach wants me to do and needs me to do win, that's what I'm going to do.

Danilo Gallinari

I like to try the local food no matter where I go.

Danilo Gallinari

When I was a baby, if I cried, my parents didn't give me a blanket. They gave me a ball and sent me to the little court in our backyard. I must have cried a lot because I was one of those kids who could dribble and shoot at 5 years old.

Danilo Gallinari

I love the city. I have a house here. After my career is over, Denver is going to be my city.

Danilo Gallinari

At 17, I joined Olimpia Milano, the club my dad played for. Giorgio Armani was the sponsor. Everyone wanted to play for Milano because of him. They called him Re Giorgio, King Giorgio. We'd spend entire days at his stores, getting measured and fitted for suits.

Danilo Gallinari

My father, Vittorio, was a big-time player in Italy, but we never talked about basketball. He never came to my games. He said he didn't want to step on my coaches' toes.

Danilo Gallinari

The fact that I can play with a lot of veterans is very good for me, a big motivation for me.

Danilo Gallinari

Coming to Denver, that's all we talked about - championship and going to the championship. Playoffs was not even a problem. We knew that we were going to the playoffs every season.

Danilo Gallinari

It's tough to lose because when you fight to the end, you want to win.

Danilo Gallinari

We have different rules in Europe and that makes the game different. In regards to contact, there are more things allowed overseas. You can do a lot more 'dirty' stuff.

Danilo Gallinari

It's my nature, and I was given this by my parents, to live for those big moments.

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The only thing we can control is the daily work we put in, and that's all that matters.

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When you're a veteran and speak to a lot of these young players, teach them a lot of things, it's amazing to me the way they're able to translate that to the court.

Danilo Gallinari

Sometimes I was making my dad mad because I was doing some bad stuff, like kid's stuff. And he just put the ball in my hands: 'Go out and shoot.'

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Anyone who knows me knows that I am a very positive person.

Danilo Gallinari

My parents taught me a great thing when I was a little kid to not read newspapers or follow the media.

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Your family's the most important thing.

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Time goes pretty fast.

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You'll always find me in the gym, working on my game.

Danilo Gallinari

The key to guarding Kevin Durant is to play really good team defense. One on one, it's just tough. So you try to get all five guys to play against him.

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My project is to finish the career in Italy with Milano.

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It makes me feel good, when people say you are important to the team.

Danilo Gallinari

I want big games to prove to myself that I'm a winner and not a loser.

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If you see my history with contracts, it's never been about money because if it was about money I would have made other choices.

Danilo Gallinari

I signed with a club when I was 12. I started living by myself at 14. I turned pro at 16. I grew up playing nothing but point guard, and suddenly, I was a 16-year-old small forward matched up against 35-year-old men.

Danilo Gallinari

I want to play well, and I want to win.

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Patience may be the toughest thing when you're injured.

Danilo Gallinari

I started living by myself since I was 14 years old.

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I think that everybody wants to play well.

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If you don't like the pressure you shouldn't play basketball.

Danilo Gallinari

It was a really good relationship with the fans in New York - you can ask them. But I felt they were cheering for everybody, not just me.