Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Australian basketball player Joe Ingles.
Last updated on November 25, 2024.
Joseph Howarth Ingles is an Australian professional basketball player for the Milwaukee Bucks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He last played for the Utah Jazz. He also represents the Australian national team. He primarily plays at the small forward and shooting guard positions. He is the Utah Jazz all-time leader in three-pointers made.
I never go into a game thinking of talking to anyone.
I'm not going to go out and shoot 20 shots a game because I got paid a little bit more money or anything like that.
Let me just keep shooting and see if it keeps going in.
I used to catch and take a big dip down and then finally I'd try to shoot. That first year playing the NBA, I was realizing how little time you have to shoot the ball. The time you have from when you catch it to the guy closing out is just a split second. So I had to figure out a way to get my shot off quicker. Then it was just repetition.
There will be opportunities to start and if I do great.
I think all the Australians have that. They're willing to give up a bit of their own glory for the better of the group.
The numbers I've shot, the percentages, they obviously are what they are and people are going to dissect everything but, I honestly feel like they're all going to go in when I shoot the ball.
To me it would be hard to beat how the Jazz look after Renae and every wife or significant other, and even family members.
I liked starting. I liked matching up with the best of the best players who got the start. Taking on that challenge.
There's nothing like getting out there in the green and gold with your friends and family supporting you.
Offense, defense - on both ends of the floor - figuring that out. I'll keep watching the film and see where I can keep getting better.
At the end of the day, we're trying to win a game so whatever I can do to help us win. Obviously, I'll do that.
Nothing simulates playing basketball.
I want to try and be aggressive and dictate the play a little bit.
I'm not a video game guy.
I get to throw a ball around for a living and go back to the kids and life is good.
I've never played for a contract or money or any of those things.
Every team is different and does different things.
I get it everywhere, 'Look at the math teacher. Look at the science teacher.' I get it everywhere I go, which I can kind of enjoy.
My shooting has gotten a lot better - more consistent.
One airball is not going to stray away from me shooting a few more.
For me, I just go out there and play defense, hit some open shots and keep it rolling.
When I feel like it's my shot within the flow of the offense and getting in any rhythm, I feel like I should make every one of them.
I'm the best shooter in the league.
I'm never retiring.
Let's be real, I've got a receding hairline, I'm slow and I'm probably not the most jacked up with abs and all that, but I'm still going to beat you one-on-one.
I think I've played well at times, I've played horrible at times.
I knew, as silly as it sounds, that I was never going to be the best player on any team.
I knew my role and what I was good at and what I wasn't good at. I was very in touch with reality.
I don't mind a bit of banter on the court.
I don't know why everyone gets so stressed about it all the time.
I'm not going to change who I am.
Being with my kids all day can make for long days.
I only consider myself a shooter in certain situations.
I love Utah.
I'm trying to focus on every play and not to worry about the offensive end.
I don't like anyone from any other team, even the Aussies when it comes down to it. Once you get on the court, it is what it is.
Me and JC, Jordan Clarkson, get along really well anyway, but being with him like every day, which I probably never thought I would really do, he's probably one of the greatest humans I've ever been around. JC will be forever be one of my favorite teammates ever.
Representing Australia is huge reason why I play.
In a situation like this where you're playing every second day, the best thing you can do is watch and learn from film.
I think I've shown patches of being a good defender and then I've gotten lazy off the ball and you make a stupid play and you look like you can't guard anybody.
I get emotional. I get into the game a lot and I enjoy it a lot.
At the end of the day, if I can keep playing defense, I'm going to be able to stay on the floor, and obviously that's what everyone wants to do.
Starting or not I couldn't really care less.
I guess I enjoy my life. I'm in a very, very fortunate position and I enjoy playing basketball and I just enjoy life.
I think there's always things you can get better with and stuff like that.
I do feel like I get a lot of open shots.
Decisiveness turns slow players into fast ones.
Ten, 20, 30, winning, losing streak, whatever it is, we've just got to keep pushing, keep getting better each day.
I am a sweater. I sweat making dinner and going to the bathroom and everything.
It's good to be able to focus on our job, our basketball and what we do.
The more I play, the more comfortable I get.
People looking from the outside might think that things will change because I'll have access to a lot more money, but it won't happen.
Kyle Korver, to me, is a shooter. JJ Redick is a shooter.
We do a lot so we spend probably like an hour before every practice and game on the table getting treatment. We spend probably about the same, 30 minutes to an hour after the game, to be reasonably healthy when we can. But yeah, especially for me, doing the treatment before and after the game is why I'm able to be out there every night.
I loved my juniors growing up and how fun it was.
I don't take bad shots.
I'm excited to partner with the No. 1 residential basketball company in the world. Lifetime makes some of the best hoops around, and I share a lot of their values.
When every guy on the team and the coaching staff is telling you, 'shoot it, shoot it,' obviously I've always known I could shoot it, but it was more of a trying to get the guys involved and being that middle man.
I try to represent myself, my family and my country the right way.