Top 163 Quotes & Sayings by Slovenian Authors - Page 2

I mean everybody's tired at the end of the season. But I've never hit the point that I was so tired that I couldn't have kept going.

If you come into a season without goals, you're just going through practice and it doesn't mean anything to you. But if you set goals, you're pushing yourself.

When you know your team is standing behind you, it's a little bit easier to play in those crucial moments. And I love it.

They teach that in Europe. When you penetrate and you feel some guy next to you, you just pump fake and stop and turn. It's an old move I used all my career, so it comes natural.

I started playing soccer first and then basketball. I had a leg injury when I was young and my mom said, 'come on, try to choose a different sport.'

The most important thing is that my family and I are happy.

Soccer helped especially with my footwork. When I played soccer, I was on offense scoring goals - I didn't pass the ball so much so it probably didn't help much with being a point guard.

The Olympic Games are always in the head of every sports athlete. We work for that.

My country, they give me everything.

Sometimes on the outside courts we'd play and guys would get into fights. I never backed down, even if the guy was stronger and I'd get punished.

If people see that you're passionate about what you're creating, they're going to enjoy it.

Every time I went to play for my national team, we spent together two months away from our families, as a team.

I can't explain how lucky I am.

I already said to D-Wade and Steve Nash and those guys, 'I don't know how you guys do it.' Of course, I want to be a famous basketball player, but not to that standpoint where you go out and you don't have peace. You cannot enjoy your personal life. I would rather be with my family and do what I want.

Brook Lopez is huge!

It's really weird, people love filming, they love being on camera.

I was never a strategic guy. If I can play, I just want to play.

I had seen 'Pillowman' in London and loved it. Being part of something that I, as an audience member, would like to be part of was one of the greatest experiences I've ever had.

It's always tough when you beat your expectation and you win 48, 49 games and you expect the next year to win 50, 55 games.

If you want to be a good team, you have to play against the best teams. For me, personally, I want to have tough challenges.

I love Miami and would love to always be in Miami.

It's not my goal to be the main scorer. It's whatever the opponent gives.

I like to watch shows.

Skiing is always so huge, you need so many talents to be fast and be good at this sport.

We are basketball players so we want to compete.

I always knew I wanted to work hard at something.

I watch tape of players - Chris Paul, Deron Williams, all the top players who play my same position.

I played for 12, 13 years nonstop. That takes a toll on your body.

When you win a lot, you don't learn much. With my ups and downs, it's a lot of learning.

It's incredible in our sport how small the differences are, and we are all aware of that. We're all on a high level and skiing well, and at the end, it's just hundredths that count. Maybe it's just one finger or a hand can change the color of a medal.

I filmed my first vlog and I think it worked because I wasn't trying to make it work. I was just doing it for my own enjoyment.

To be a point guard, to run the team and have the ball in my hands and try to make plays for others - that's who I am.

I'm not much of an art guy but I really do love Shelby and Sandy's work - they look like they're made on a computer but they're hand-painted.

I would not want to be a firefighter.

I'm not allowed to leave the country because I am under what you call DACA.

I had such an amazing experience on 'The Pillowman' that it was hard to think what else is going to live up to that.

I thought I would spent my career doing Chekhov and Ibsen in regional theaters, so the fact that I started doing new plays was a whole new world I didn't expect, and that I would like to keep doing.

All the mistakes we make are documented.

Standing in the corner, it's not my game.

To hear people mentioning me for All-Star is an unbelievable feeling.

All my friends call me 'Gogi' because that's the short version for Goran.

When you're guest-starring, it's very nice, but you're there very briefly, and it's right there in the name: You're a guest. It's very hard to get a real sense of belonging. With recurring and regular roles, at least you have a sense that this is a home and a steady place.

What I always loved about theater is that that's an experience that a company of actors just sinks itself into for weeks, and you really get to work on the material, and by the time you're in front of an audience, you really own it.

It's always nice to go back and play for my country. My teammates and I grew up together.

I don't have a kitchen table 'cause I feel like I eat really quickly, so I just get it done while I'm standing or doing something else.

I always want to practice and play. But sometimes your body or your head doesn't allow you to do that.

I'm not a guy who is going back in the past.

I want to play as much as I can, many years in this great association.

The only thing I can control is my preparation and how I play games and how I practice.

I'm a partner with City of Hope for many, many years.

I really like LED signs because I feel like they're a really easy way to decorate a house and make it feel like it's a lot cooler than it actually is.

I don't have a visa. The only thing I can do where I can leave the country and come back is if I get married.

I want to be in a good situation with a good organization.

The problem with YouTube is if I want to watch something serious, I can click on it, but in two seconds, I'm also going to be greeted with some video about some guy surprising his kid with a baby cat.

Not everyone in this world has the same start in life. From that standpoint, we are trying to give as many kids as we can equal opportunities to succeed.

I don't cook, I always order food or I go out.

I always cherish my ancestors, my grandpa, great-grandpa, what they did for us, especially my dad who moved from Bosnia. He started a new life in Slovenia so basically I grew up there.

I would not want to be a cop.

I'm going to do what's best for the team.

You can see a lot of technical fouls, ejections but at the same time, it's a man's sport.