Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Harrison Barnes - Page 2

This is the NBA, so there's basketball and then there's business.

I know my body pretty well.

Basketball is such a good platform to be able to have a real impact on kids. We don't have all the answers, but we can tell kids the importance of asking questions and working hard. Maybe they go to their teacher and ask questions because their favorite player told them it was a good thing to do.

I realize I got to where I am because people took the time to invest in me and make sacrifices and hopefully I can pay that forward and try to my part to help somebody else.

I made the decision to go to Dallas. I don't really dwell on that and just move forward.

I think how you dress says a lot about how you carry yourself.

The biggest thing to realize when you're guarding great players is, look, they're going to score - it's hard to guard anyone one-on-one, straight-up and have them be shut out. You just want to try to make them work for their possessions.

I think Basketball Without Borders is huge just because of the platform that basketball is.

When you rebound, you've got to get some edge. You get some elbows early in the game, it kind of gets your blood flowing. Then you're kind of just on edge, just aggressive from there.

If someone hit you in the face 7 times, you're not just going to smile on the eighth.

I think if anybody has an opportunity to play professional basketball, to not transcend that into off-the-court endeavors is really a waste.

I know that I won't be an athlete forever. I have to have a vision of what I want to be afterward.

Obviously, I'm not complaining about my role at Golden State, because we won a lot of games doing that.

It's hard when you get the ball in an iso situation and you have a set defense in front of you. Very few players in the league can do that.

Giving back to Ames is something that me and my wife have tried to do since I've been in the League and I've been fortunate enough to be able to give back.

Being able to win gold would be huge because you're playing for so much more than your team, your organization, or your city. You're playing for your country, and to be able to represent Team U.S.A. across your chest and go up there and compete, it's the highest honor.

Growing up I had so many people who were born and raised in Ames who were important to me and gave me so much.

I have a desire to learn and be able to interact with people that I admire or like or respect.

As a player, you always want to know what you can do. At the end of your career, you can look back and say, look, I was able to get this much out of my playing career and I was able to become this type of player. I think that's what allows you to sleep well at night.

I have respect for the greats, like Jay-Z.

I love the Bay Area.

Kerr is great, but I started my career under Mark Jackson, so there's no hard feelings there.

At Carolina, I was surrounded by great players, and we felt like we were one of the more talented teams in the country. My job was to score. In the NBA, it's different.

I was just a kid from Ames.

When I look back at the people who were most influential in my life, it wasn't Kobe Bryant, it wasn't Michael Jordan, it wasn't Muhammad Ali. It was regular people who do, like, regular jobs in Ames, Iowa, who had impact. My hero was the secretary in the department of music - my mom.

At the end of the day, you're a person before you are a basketball player.

People assume that just because you get paid a lot of money and have a lot of attention that all of the sudden you're guaranteed this many shots. I have to prove that every day in practice.

I think it's important that we as athletes do whatever we can to help kids, primarily helping kids of color.

My sister-in-law actually lives in Johannesburg with her husband.

Anytime you have opportunities to spread the game of basketball, it is a big thing.

To me, I'm honored to be able to talk to and interview people like Dr. Harry Edwards and Emmitt Smith, and just to be able to ask them questions is an unbelievable opportunity. I'm not a journalist. I have no idea about that. My wife is 10 times the writer that I am. I'm not going to be on that level.

I feel like if you start letting other people dictate how you're going to play the game, you shouldn't play the game. That's just that simple.

Since I was the No. 1 recruit I heard a lot of similar stuff like that, LeBron James comparisons. You definitely have to respect what he's accomplished in this league.

Most bigs aren't used to guarding out on the perimeter.

Change is very slow, it takes time.

At the end of the day, you have to win games.

I would say that I'm not the next anybody, man. I'm Harrison Barnes.

You have to have that balance of scoring and playmaking, and learn how to be a closer.

I've been very fortunate throughout my life with a number of opportunities, a number of great people that have helped me be in the position that I am today to be an NBA basketball player and to be living out my dream.

You always want to look nice.