Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by George Hill
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Last updated on December 23, 2024.
I like to play 'Rock Band' - a lot.
I'm not a big fan of moving from city to city.
When I was a rookie, it was pretty much my first time outside of the city that I grew up in.
Most people that always have something against hunting are the same ones that go out to a restaurant to eat a steak or order a burger.
Everything that allowed me to come here to Utah has been great.
Sometimes you have to stand up for what's right, and sometimes that may be ruffling feathers and may be frowned upon by everyone else, but at the end of the day in your heart, knowing you're on the right side of history and knowing that you did the right thing, good or bad, you have to live with that.
If you're able to put your knee on someone's neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds, you have no heart. You have no pulse. If you can smile and put your hands in your pocket and the ones that are around you that didn't do anything, are not human either.
I love to just be on the ranch and experience life.
I try to instill in the guys to work hard, be humble, be blessed, stay in the gym, be a sponge and soak as much intelligence as a young player and embrace it.
I think putting your fingerprints on life in general speaks more value than this game of basketball can speak.
I'm super impressed with Maxey. I love the kid. I love his heart, I love what he brings to the table. He's a sponge, and he's always trying to get better.
We can't promise wins or losses and things like that but we can promise that we can play hard night in and night out and impact the community and that's the biggest thing.
I've seen the police brutality.
I'm big on education.
I just do my job.
No matter how many I score or what I do, I just want to win.
Indiana is always home to me. It holds a special place in my heart.
Basketball is something we're blessed to do, but it's not who we are.
The more I'm aggressive, the better off we're going to be. I have to take that into consideration every game to make it a point to be aggressive.
To be able to look a young man in his eyes and believe in him and trust him and push him to be better, I get more out of that than scoring 3-pointers in general.
No, I'm not going to shut up and dribble. I don't care if you take my contract, I don't care if you say that I'm this or that, I'm human. I have a heart. I have a pulse. I have emotions. I'm a man. I have kids. I'm a father. I have a wife. I have friends. I have loved ones.
As a kid, I think every kid grew up watching Jordan, that was every kid's idol... you just wanted to be like Mike.
Sometimes it hurts to hear the truth, but you need it.
You can always make an imprint on the game no matter what you do.
I'm a grown man. I'm gonna do what I want to do. If I want to go see my family, I'm going to go see my family.
I define my life around happiness, being safe, being able to enjoy life and live this life for a long time.
You can win a championship, but the amount of fulfillment that I get knowing I've impacted a whole community is bigger than a championship for me. It's what I stand for. It's how I live. And I think that's how the world should try to see itself to impact other people's lives.
I just go out and try to do my job the best I can. If that's playing defense as hard as I can or if that's taking the opportunity to score I'll do that, but it's all about just winning the game no matter what happens.
Humanity is something we're lacking, and I will continue to do my job to bring back those attributes that we lack today in every community.
I'm an Indianapolis boy to the core.
When I was a kid, you know, the Playskool plastic courts that were white backboard, blue base that you put water in and the rim was dunk breakaway. That was one of the first gifts that I actually remember - only because I broke it the first day I got it. So that sticks out in my head a lot. It's one of the best gifts I ever got as a child.
LeBron is a great player, he's the MVP for a reason, he's one of the best to ever play this game.
It was always a dream to be a Pacer, and I got to fulfill that dream, but my family and friends are still there, so it's always a great place to go back to.
Everyone has a dog or a cat... I just choose other animals.
My kids wake up at 7 o'clock every morning, so I'm normally up around 7.
I never knew how tough it was to play that 14-second shot clock mentality.
Anytime you come in and you have a player like Tony go down, it's always different. You can't be a Tony Parker, but I think it's just staying focused and doing what got me here.
I have a voice and I have a platform for a reason.
It's just my nature to make sure everyone is happy.
Some may be different to others based off of situations that they experienced in their life, but there's no amount of money that can get me to just shut up and dribble. No, I'm not going to do that.
I tell my AAU kids all the time how important it is to get good grades, go to college, get your degree to make your life easier.
I didn't have any money. I used to try to take out people's trash and sweep the floor to make ends meet.
That's what I normally pride myself on, being a solid defender and giving all my energy on the defensive end.
Don't be afraid to take risks. Create a vision for you life. Be a leader in your own life. Give of yourself selflessly to make a positive change in another human being.
I'm not the All-Star point guard that everybody's dreaming about right now. I'm not that. I wish I was, but I'm a work in progress and I'm not scared to admit that. But what I am is a good citizen and a guy who's not scared to put his neck on the line for his community or for his state. And I'm always going to do that.
It's always a big accomplishment to graduate from a university.
The only thing I hunt on my land is wild hogs and coyotes, because they cause so many problems.
Our African American kids need to know what Black Wall Street was all about.
We always say when a guy is down, the next guy has to step up.
Every day we have to live our lives with greater respect and purpose.
Anytime you can feel the ball a bit more and you feel like you're a little bit more involved, it's all about confidence.
God just blessed me with a talent to play basketball. If I didn't have that talent, I possibly would've been that George Floyd.
When the ball goes up in the air, I'm ready to play, I love the competitive side of it, but that's not who I am.
Basketball's just something temporary that we do and we're blessed to do, but life is way more precious than this ball that we play.
If you're sitting for more of the majority of the game and you really don't get a lot of touches, maybe every once in a while your confidence and your rhythm is probably out of sync.
Treat everyone with the same respect that you want to be treated with. That's going to take a collective group of people to do it. There's not one individual that's going to change it. It's going to take multiple people getting out, learning who each other are and loving each other no matter what their political views or what their background is.
I've got one house and it's in Texas. Everything else is rentals for more.
We can't worry about this person or that person, how many shots people are getting or minutes. We just got to try to win a game.
You know, the fans, the city have embraced me. The Jazz culture and family have welcomed me with open arms. Any time you have those things clicking on all cylinders, it just makes for a great place to raise your family and be a part of.
If all of us were trying to handle the ball at the same time, then we'd have a problem.
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