Top 182 Quotes & Sayings by Stephen Curry - Page 3

What goes through my head when I'm going to take a game-winning shot is ... I better make it. Don't be afraid of the moment.

The best shooters shoot the exact same way every single time they look at the basket.

In a game, there are so many different variables that are thrown at you - the defense, where your teammates are, how fast your body's moving, and you have to be in control of all those decisions.

You don't have to live anybody else's story.

Have a day off, which is very rare in our line of work, but that's something we like to do. Like I said, it's a nice way to take your mind off the game and just go out and relax and have fun.

I really cherish everything that basketball brings; and I think, for me, it's been a great ride and I'm not done yet.

We overload in our workouts so that the game slows down in real life. It helps you become a smarter basketball player.

I'd rather be a non-All-Star playing in the Western Conference finals than an All-Star who's sitting at home in May.

I try to use every game as an opportunity to witness. I try to do a little signal every time I make a shot as a way to preach the message in little ways that I can.

Being a superstar means you've reached your potential, and I don't think I've reached my potential as a basketball player and as a leader yet.

He credited his teammates, who he thanked in turn, with challenging him every day and driving him forward and making him a better player.

I learned how quickly I actually released my shot off the dribble. I know that's something I work on, and really use in games, but I didn't know exactly how quick it was, down to like the millisecond.

I can accomplish all those. It's really awkward, kind of, for me coming out here and being in a competitive golf atmosphere. I don't get to do it but once a year, except my, like, local tournaments back home in Oakland.

It's all about winning. Stats really don't matter, I mean, guys have great series and all that, and people take notice and take their place in history with those stats and all that stuff. But at the end of the day, it's all about winning and what you can do to help your team get to that point.

Obviously he deserved that Finals MVP award. He is a great talent and he is a huge reason why we are celebrating.

I can't say enough, how important my faith is to how I play the game and who I am.

Golf's for everybody.

I do a little sign on the court every time i make a shot or a good pass and i pound my chest and point to the sky - it symbolizes that i have a heart for God. It’s something that my mom and I came up with in college and I do it every time I step on the floor as a reminder of who i’m playing for.

I still have a Lydia Ko-signed golf ball in my sock drawer that I'll keep for a while.

The more years I go, the more experience I have, the more that nutrition and eating the right foods is important for recovery and things like that.

There's more to life than basketball. The most important thing is your family and taking care of each other and loving each other no matter what.

I'm pretty confident, let's just say that, in my game right now, for what it is. So if that means a win, then I'll be real happy.

I can get better. I haven't reached my ceiling yet on how well I can shoot the basketball.

It's a really weird mindset to kind of try to take my mentality on the basketball court and bring it here on to the golf course. I don't want to have too high of expectations on, like, each hole, just try to enjoy the process, but hopefully get out to a good start tomorrow and be in the conversation and see what happens.

All 14 guys on the team have sacrificed something to get to this point.

The funny part is I feel like somebody is stalking me, like, at my local course and sizing up my game.

Every decision he made, I think everybody bought into it. Whether you understood it or not, you bought into it. Because he's a champion. He's won five of these or something like that, so you've got to trust a guy that's been here before and his view for our team.

My wife would probably say I'm the messiest person in the history of husbands.

I'm a golf junkie, but I'm a sports fan. I'll watch pretty much everything that's on.

Kids put life into perspective. I never have a bad day. Life happens and you get bad news sometime, or things don't go your way at work - for me that might mean I lose a game or not play well - but that doesn't affect my mood from day to day. I love going home and seeing the smiles on my daughters' faces being happy to see me, and that makes everything all right.

Being a father kind of gives you something more to play for.

I have much less confidence on the greens than I do on the court. Everybody asks like if putting is like shooting free throws. Like that six-footer for par or something like that. It has a very similar kind of mindset.

Yesterday was the first time I saw Kevin Durant in a Warrior T-shirt. I like did a double-take; it was the weirdest thing ever, because it's still kind of fresh.

In my terms, "neurocognitive efficiency" is being able to make smarter, faster decisions on the floor.

Every step of the way I think you learn something that makes you a better player, and all those lessons really come out when it matters the most in a championship.

No better blessing than the responsibility of fatherhood.

If I make a double bogey, the fans on whatever hole better watch out; I might throw it. I might throw it at them.

We want to get another one.

You obviously have your routines that you rely on, then you go out and play and have fun. For us in basketball, we have a seven-game series, so you have time to adjust if you need to. It's a fun experience to go through, and one that I'll remember for a long time.

Physically I feel pretty good; that's the main key, is just making sure your body is ready to play every night since you play so many games and I feel like I'm there.

I remember back when I was 10 and my dad was telling me: Hey, I'm going on a trip this week to play out in Lake Tahoe. I didn't really know where Lake Tahoe was going back, living back in North Carolina.

When you get out in the field, it's just like any other game. You want to be the same player, the same team that has gotten them to that point. I don't think you have to do anything special. Just be yourself and allow all the time you put in that take over and get the job done.

We just forced them into tough shots that whole overtime. It was a classic five minutes that we needed.

I have a bet with my mom that involves a little money, and if I have too many turnovers, she gets in my pocket. I'm afraid of that for sure.

I'm a golf junkie. I watch every tournament pretty much. I watch interviews. I watch warm-up routines. All that stuff.

I think I may have too much of a scientific mindset and am always looking for the caveats and qualifications in any situation. I never thought seriously of doing a PhD until relatively late in the day. I was always diligent at the book-work at university but the brightest amongst my friends all seemed to have a more intuitive grasp of the subject.

Basketball was mine, and that's what's carried me to this point.

I've played with Mardy Fish a lot. Played with him, I think, two years ago in one of the weekend rounds.

I'm pretty much on the "eat whatever you can diet," just to get calories in, so I can maintain myself throughout the season.

I liked school and was a bit of an all-rounder academically, I struggled with music. I can't hold a note when singing and abandoned any notion of a career in music after barely scraping a pass in grade 2 piano.

I'm not a daily coffee guy at all, or energy drinks or anything like that.

In my late teens, like many a devout Catholic boy, I considered the priesthood and even went as far as discussing the idea at a seminary in Belfast but hesitated. I decided to focus on physics at university, another way perhaps to contemplate the mysteries of reality.

This was an unbelievable experience.

Kitchen is the place where we have our best and worst conversations. It's such a dying thing, people sitting around the table and enjoying dinner together in their home. My mission is to keep that alive.

I got good grades but no particular comment stands out in my memory, I'm afraid. I was one of those annoying and rather boring model pupils.

I can speak volumes about the guy sitting next to me. You look at his stat line tonight, he had a lot of foul trouble and didn't really get going, but when he was in there, he was defending. He was playing physical, and he was doing everything he could to help us win.

I'm pretty in tune with everything that happens on the PGA TOUR. Jordan Spieth is my guy. I love watching him play.

Obviously, everybody wants to see Tiger [Woods] come back, but I think it's in a really good place with how much talent is out there and the exciting finishes you have, week in, week out.

If it's sports and women's golf, men's golf, and it's on TV, I'm watching it. I watched those ladies do what they do at such a high level, and she's obviously a big basketball fan and a fan of ours, too. So it was cool to have that interaction.

I'm very conscious of data and analytics, and understanding how our body works and different loads that we put on it throughout the course of games and practices. It helps you make adjustments if you need to, helps you be smarter about your workouts, and I think it protects you from injuries to not over-exert yourself.