Top 97 Quotes & Sayings by Danilo Gallinari - Page 2

Spending seven to eight hours in the gym every day is not easy.

The finance world in general is very, very complicated and there are so many different things that need to be evaluated, but I think at the end of the day, the most important thing is how you want to invest your money - if you want to be a short-term, mid-term or long-term investor.

Nobody is going to give you anything. You've got to earn everything.

I'm a very versatile player.

It's not easy to play with pain.

How can you be negative living the basketball NBA life? It's impossible.

It's nice being the first option as long as you're winning.

I would walk around in all these cities we lived in because my dad would move around so much. I would just walk the streets with a ball in my hand, and my mom holding my other handing waiting to find a hoop to play in. That was my first love of basketball.

I will work to prove to everybody the type of player that I am.

With your mom, you always find ways to talk about stuff.

The different kinds of injuries, you go through a lot of different kinds of pain. But the most painful thing is actually the rehab. You have to go through pain in order to get better. The pain you feel during rehab is actually a good thing, it's something you have to go through in order to get better.

The stats don't matter to me a lot as long as we win.

I've been in love with basketball from the moment I shot my first shot, hanging out with my father. When I was a kid I would stay in the gym waiting for my dad to finish practicing. I was just shooting.

In the third level you can have only one American on your team. In the second level you can have two, and in the first level you can have as many as you want. So I was 17 playing against men, some who were 30 or 35. It's a good way to develop, playing in Europe. You can get better faster.

Now to be the NBA player that gets to coach the little kids and talk to them and enjoy time with them, I think is just amazing.

In the future, I don't want to look back and say that I didn't play hard, as hard as I could.

When the shot doesn't go in, you have to do other things.

When I was 18 it was my last season in Milan. I was 18 turning 19 and it was my last season in Milan and I knew that that year was very important for me. A lot of scouts were coming to every game.

Everybody has their job, their speciality and talents - I can play basketball but I need somebody to help me out with my financial situation.

The nation of Italy has a great, great friend in Chris Paul.

You've got to control what you can control.

To have the right team is key at the beginning to build your career on the court and off the court.

You don't have time to put yourself down or think about negative stuff.

If getting more black eyes helps the team win, I'll get more.

Every time I have a chance to play basketball, it's great.

I'll play the 5 if the team needs me to do it.

Nothing is ever like home.

It's crazy, because you see these famous actors or actresses and I'm like, 'Oh, I want a picture with you!' and they're like 'No, I want a picture with you!'

The player I was overseas, three-point shooting wasn't my first thing. I was a one-on-one, driving-to-the-basket type player.

One life is way too short to be pessimistic, so you've got to be positive and optimistic.

I had small injuries that everybody else has. A little strain, you're out one week. Twist your ankle, out two weeks.

I had two big injuries, one in my back my rookie year and when I was in Denver, my knee.

I was born to be a basketball player, not to be a guy who succeeds inside Goldman Sachs.

I want to be part of the three-point contest.

The most important thing about sports is that it gives you the chance to relate with other people, to share in something together and to share a goal with somebody else.

I don't want to be just a shooter. I want to help the team in other ways because I know I can do that.

Every player responds to different motivations differently.