Top 99 Quotes & Sayings by Rudy Gobert - Page 2

You don't have to think, you just have to play hard on defense.

Sometimes, I see the guys driving and they don't even look at the rim, they just dribble out so it's as good as a block or even better because I'm kind of laughing when I see that. That's what it's about.

I'm able to impact people's lives by the way I play, but there's so much more things I can do so there is no limit to what I can do.

I think I learned basketball. I learned a lot.

Some games I'm going to get more blocks or they're going to do more mistakes and give up more baskets but some games I get zero blocks and I affect 20 shots.

I want to be an All-Star. That's my goal. And win a title.

Once I got 13 or 14 years old, I started watching a lot of videos on YouTube and NBA.com and I started following the NBA ball.

You don't want your opponent to score. You don't want your guy to score and once you get better at it, you get used to it, it becomes a mindset. You just try to do it every game.

Defense doesn't matter enough.

To be honest, I love being in Utah so I think most people have the wrong idea about the city, about the place.

I think I learned how it works in the league. When you are outside you don't understand everything, but when you are inside you can know how it works.

Obviously, the basketball career doesn't last forever.

My goal is to protect the basket. Most of the time, I won't block the shot but I'm going to affect the shot or I'm going to affect the way they think.

Defense doesn't sell as much as offense.

First, I'm just trying to set screens for my teammates and then just be aggressive, make the right play.

I'm just worried about winning and making my teammates better and getting better.

People watch the points, they watch the highlights. But the defense I think helps the offense.

It's a team game.

Obviously I think offensively, spacing for me as a guy that puts a lot of pressure on the rim is going to make it harder on a defense. They're going to have to make tougher decisions, and space is going to be way more open for all the guards, too.

When I was young, I didn't watch basketball, but I watched 'Space Jam' with Michael Jordan so he was my favorite player.

The Defensive Player of the Year is the guy that makes his team better. Not only gets stats - it's the guy that also has an impact on his teammates and leadership.

Even though I didn't have a lot of material things, I had the love and education and all together a lot of kids don't have the same chances, so the goal is to give some chances to the kids that don't have it.

There's a lot of things you don't see on the stats.

When I started to do it with precision, I realized how much setting good screens made us better as a team offensively. It made things easy for me and my teammates.

I don't like to fall short. It's tough. Just make the right play when I'm open, and I'll thrust to the rim and be aggressive.

I always love to help the community, to interact with the kids, with the fans. It doesn't matter who I am on the court, to me it's important.

It's a tremendous amount of fans in France that love basketball, that follow it every day even though the games are at like two or three in the morning.

I do a lot of things to help my team winning - set screens, roll into the rim, finishing. I think I can be even more than that.

I just try to make the right play, stay aggressive and defensively just do what I do. I make sure I talk to everyone and control the paint.

Goaltending, sometimes it's tough because you're in the air and you say, 'No, no. Don't take the ball.'

I want to stay with the Jazz.

I just try to do what I do by getting my teammates open and getting better at finishing and making plays when I can.

At the end of my life, I just want to make sure I made a big difference in this world.

It's great to communicate as a team.

I play every year to try to win.

I'm prepared to guard anyone.

I think when you're a very good defensive team you give yourself a chance every night, on the road, at home, it's a big factor and something to build on.

I think when you're a very good defensive team - it's very rare a team wins a championship when you're not a very good defensive team.

I mean, defense to me is something that when you watch a game you don't really pay attention to defense unless you're very - unless you're a specialist.