Top 104 Quotes & Sayings by Joe Harris - Page 2

In college you might think you travel a lot, but it is nowhere close to the NBA.

I keep in touch with all the guys that I was training with in Chicago during the pre-draft process; Nik Stauskas, Mitch McGary, Adrien Payne, and Dougie McDermott. We all got pretty close training together and we just keep tabs every now and then.

Cleveland, although I didn't play a lot I really learned a ton in my year and a half of being there. I was really fortunate to be around some of the game's best players.

I don't think too highly of myself, but at the same time, I don't think too lowly of myself.

Every step of way, going from a small town to Charlottesville and playing in the ACC - that whole experience is a difficult adjustment. In all of that, you really grow as a person and as a basketball player.

Obviously, you hope to make shots. But you can't put too much pressure on yourself to make it, because whether or not they go in, you're creating space everybody else.

I know what my game is and what I do well and I'm just going to keep trying to I,prove and make sure I'm consistent as possible in those areas.

Obviously, back-to-backs are tough... but everyone goes through it in this league.

There aren't a lot of second chances for second-round picks.

Shooting's contagious: Guys start seeing the ball go in and everybody starts to feel good.

I was so competitive when I played. I was trying to get every loose ball, trying to get steals. That's what I was kind of infamous for in high school.

If someone has my number that I don't know and texts me a considerable amount I would just block the number.

I was fortunate in college to play as a freshman, but in the NBA, not a lot of rookies are coming in and making a significant impact right off the bat.

To actually play a game, where you are in the World Cup, there is significance to it, the point differential matters, all these things kind of add up.

I think Brooklyn is easily one of the best NBA cities out there.

I miss UVA and Charlottesville a lot but not so much of going to class.

The teams that have got good continuity, good chemistry typically have more success.

Obviously any time you play home in front of your own fans, you definitely get a distinct advantage that way.

Kyrie is a good guy. Spent a lot of time with him over the years because we were the same class in high school and ACC when he was at Duke. Then I was with him my rookie year in Cleveland.

Personally, I already get paid way too much to play a game.

I liked the idea of being one of the foundations for Coach Bennett's program and trying to revive UVa basketball.

I play around 220.

I'm one of the best shooters in the League.

If you look at all the top shooters in the NBA, guys that might be specialists like how I see myself, they're always 40 percent and above. So, that's a personal goal for me to get into that elite three-point shooting percentage.

It's hard to compete with everything that Brooklyn has to offer as a city.

I know I have a lot of areas and room to improve.

You're gonna have pretty bad defeats. But you've gotta be able to respond and come back in and compete the next night.

There's a tendency, guys get really excited and go through practice, and they want to stay for an extra hour after and do these workouts. What you should be doing is getting in the cold tub or getting your corrective exercises in with your strength coach, little things like that which can help you in the long run.

You never want to see anybody get hurt... but if you've ever played basketball before you've probably sprained your ankle so that stuff happens. It's part of the game.

Even over the course of the NBA's schedule, you're gonna have games where you're gonna take your lumps.

I think you go across this league and you talk to every coach and every player, and dealing with a young, up-and-coming team is much different than coaching superstar players, and everybody kind of realizes that it's a much different dynamic.

Every time you play against somebody like Giannis, you have to be really locked into the game plan.

When you have guards that are versatile, it just makes it a lot easier in terms of who you put on the court.

If I ever got into trouble with my sisters or was slacking off, it was always my punishment that I couldn't go to a practice or a game. That was the worst thing in the world.

You've got to be able to guard hard and then work yourself offensively to get shots.

Steph is the greatest shooter of all time. Shooting off the rack is not indicative of being a better shooter than Steph Curry.

There have been lots of times in my career where you go four or five games and feel like you can't hit anything. And you also have the exact opposite.

I think I've gotten more comfortable and more confident on the defensive end. I've just been able to anticipate things a little bit better instead of reacting to how guys play offensively.

There's teams that have a lot of success in the back-to-back, and I think those teams just have a strong mental fortitude.

If you've got one guy that can create just a little bit of space for somebody that can get downhill, it opens up everything offensively.

Always go onward; returning to a favored place you will only find your old footsteps washed away.

The 19th century was the great period of engineering, thanks to the railways, thanks to lots of discoveries in metallurgy.

I strive to view my students as unique human beings all of whom come to my classroom with a personal history, cultural perceptions and traditions, goals and aspirations as well as fears and insecurities. By employing the principles of Personalization, I am able to connect with my students in a genuine way in order to build trust, respect and rapport in the classroom.

After the occupation of Paris, Hitler visited Paris, which of course was a great jewel for him, and he wanted to go up on the Eiffel Tower and gaze down upon the city of Paris, which he'd conquered. For some reason the elevators mysteriously stopped working that day. Some people say it might have had to do with the French resistance. So he couldn't go up.