A Quote by Toni Kukoc
There were games I would score five and games I would score 30, and sometimes the five points were way more important than the 30.
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I want to score more than 30 goals, but I would prefer to score 15 or 20 and get the Premier League or one big trophy.
I got to have more of those type of games where I'm just engaged. It doesn't matter the score or how many points I score.
It bothers me that the average fan, the average sportswriter for that matter, pays so much attention to what's in a box score. A box score does not properly represent the most important thing - team play. It shows some guy scoring 27 points, but it doesn't show that my 27-point man let his guy score 30.
There's been a lot of talk of me being a one-man show but that's simply not the case. We win games when I score 40 points and we've won when I score 10.
If I were a high school coach, I would put my best players on offense. The best athletes on my team, I would give them the ball and score points. I wouldn't play them on defense. I would play them where they can get the ball and score points.
For me, it's about winning games. I'm trying to score more points than the other team. I don't really care how we do it.
I have my goals, I have some things I want to achieve next basketball season individually. But the number one thing is always winning games. If you win games then everything else will take care of itself. You know nobody wants to see you guys score 30 and then lose every game.
If someone plays five good games in a row for the Bavarians, there is more talk about them being in the national team than of those who play five good games in a row for Dortmund or Wolfsburg or Bayer Leverkusen.
Inside the first 20 to 25 games of the season, we were losing these games, getting beat by two and three points. Over the last 10 games, it seems like we're starting to win these games and putting some good things together.
Individuals score points, but teams win games.
Obviously, people say offense wins games, defenses win championships. But I think, at the end of the day, if you score more points than the other team, you're going to win.
There are some games where I will look to be more aggressive and score more, and then there are games that I want to be more of a playmaker.
It's hard in England. If I didn't score for three games, there was the chance someone would take my place or I would be loaned out.
I think that as I had children, I have five sons, and they got into video games and were the prime ages through the development of video games. It was so much fun seeing them play the games and seeing it through their eyes.
After I joined Alkmaar, I didn't score for seven League games, but soon afterwards, I started to score goals.
When I was growing up, I played a lot of ten- and 12-over games, and I would bat in the middle order. I got only ten-odd balls to face, and I tried to score as much as I could. I applied the same approach in domestic and international cricket, and people were appreciating my strike rate being more than 80 or 90 in Test cricket.
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