Top 1200 Nba Championships Quotes & Sayings - Page 14
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Last updated on December 23, 2024.
You don't win championships by just being normal, by just being average.
The NBA has the best point guards in the world, so it is important that I come ready to play every night.
Maybe two or three years will be enough for me to grow into a good NBA player.
My father thought sport was something fun - he didn't know it was a way to make money. Then I won a Mercedes at the world championships and I gave it to him. From the moment it arrived my father said: 'Good, you can support not just yourself but me too'.
I watched zero NBA basketball growing up. It was available but it was too late and I had school.
A lot of people think you go to a top college, you come into the NBA and it'll be all a breeze and easy. It's not like that.
I don't care how many championships you've won or how many records you've broken - if you've had a hand in pushing forward not only a game but women in sport's movement, then I think that's pretty darn good.
I knew, hey, if I can become an elite shooter, I'll be able to play in the NBA for 10-12 years.
The NBA is a beautiful job in a lot of ways. But for living stability, thinking you're going to be somewhere for a long time, it's not for that.
Street basketball is all about shakes and fakes, crossing your defender up. The NBA is more strategic.
To be honest, I see more championships, I see MVP, I see so much more that I can accomplish. There's no reason to be satisfied.
I'm not trying to plant the seed that I'm the most fashionable NBA guy - of course, I think that in my own mind.
I'm not chasing championships. Championship's chasing us. I'm not doing that. I want my players to be better people once they leave campus because this is a life lesson. This is more than basketball. This is life lessons that we're trying to teach.
I've really gotten into fashion, and ever since I got into the NBA, I feel like players are walking billboards.
Here in the NBA they play a lot of fast basketball. Overseas it's not like that. It's more half-court plays and stuff.
After 18 NBA years, it's hard to believe I'll be playing in each arena for the last time.
I think the NBA players have to be held accountable in a reasonable way, just like any other professionals.
I dream about winning a championship, where everybody is hooting and hollering for you. The whole world is drawn to the NBA Finals.
If you know people around me, even in college, I was confident, but the possible thought of making it to the NBA was crazy.
America is the NBA of culture. So to have Asian people in the biggest entertainment market in the world, in Hollywood, is cool.
Tim Duncan is one of the greatest power forwards in the history of our game. Being younger and just watching him play, winning championships, that was always cool to be able to play against him.
In the NBA, you always have to make the right decisions. You should feel free to live a normal life, but you really can't.
NBA teams like to see guys who can help a team win a game in a lot of fashions.
Every person that's in the NBA should experience playing in New York at least once in their career.
We were in the NBA Finals. Two games away from winning it. I think we did pretty well.
I will never forget where I come from, and my journey to becoming an NBA Champion has been hard to believe.
I've achieved everything I ever wanted. I've done three Olympics, world championships, I've been around the world and made good friends. But I still have the inner drive to do more, to be not just good, but to be great.
It's fun to be tasked with making plays and being allowed that freedom. It's everything I really dreamed of in the NBA.
I thrive on challenges, and there is no more imposing challenge for someone in my profession than winning an NBA title.
The NBA is changing so much. It's not like when I came up, with that old-school mentality that practice really mattered.
I've talked to a lot of NBA superstars and legends about how I can improve my IQ offensively and defensively.
It's good to be taken out of your comfort zone - it's part of the NBA grind - a challenge I'm ready for.
I have so much love and respect for the Indiana Pacers, for the NBA, for fans, because they do support us in many ways.
I think every young man's goal is to be a professional athlete, whether it's the NBA, MLB, or the NFL.
If my performance down the stretch lands me on the All-NBA, which I think I'm deserving of, then so be it. I'll be happy.
Money-wise, I was probably the best player in Europe. It was safe where I was in Italy. But I wanted to play in the NBA to see if I could.
I sometimes think about adult skating and how, you know, people like Midori Ito, she competed at the adult world championships. I feel like I'll probably be someone like that.
There are many things I'm looking forward to in 2013, both personally and professionally. Plans for new restaurants in the U.S., including Eataly Chicago, are underway, and I'm gearing up for the 2013 Ironman world championships in Hawaii - if I'm lucky enough to get a spot!
Everybody in the NBA works on their game. I just tried to follow that lead when I was in high school, college - and now.
If Tim Duncan had 'Knicks' on his jersey, he'd be a god. He'd be more than Patrick Ewing. With four championships and two MVPs, I think people realize he's one of the best ever, but if he played in New York, he'd be way more famous.
Are you a producer or a looter? If diversity were always and everywhere good we would be clamoring for more midgets in the NBA.
Everyone said that the NBA could not possibly make it because it had too many black players.
Give me about 10 years, I'm going to run for President. If I can squeeze in an NBA championship before that, I'll do it.
I know that three months before the season is not enough to become a good NBA player, but it's a start.
I couldn't be more proud to be in the NBA, to be with the Celtics and be surrounded by the people I get to go to work with every day.
I guess when people ask what is the biggest transition to the NBA from college, it is definitely defense and the mental part.
The NBA is intense, but the NFL is a whole 'nother level of intensity and dramatic, game-changing plays.
I actually feel sorry for people who have nothing to do on Christmas Day other than watch an NBA game.
I've been playing NBA Live since I was little, and I won't lie, I always play with the team with the highest rating.
I was watching 'Space Jam' when I was a kid but that was pretty much the only thing I knew about the NBA.
One thing everyone knows about the NBA is that it's very difficult for young players to win at a high level.
There are no expectations on a 40-year-old man. All I have to worry about is intensity, and things will take care of themselves. I don't have to worry about championships, all-star games, contracts. I can just walk on the court and play.
I'm trying to let winning the world championships settle in right now before I begin training again shortly. During the skating season, we skate on average 20 kilometres a day. On top of that, we're riding a lot and lifting a lot of weights.
The NBA tries to be about flash. But real fans recognize the guy who makes things happen.
Let me tell you, NBA free agency is wild. It's like an even worse version of speed dating.
That's important when you're on this NBA journey, in different cities, playing, competing - to really enjoy the whole thing.
If I had an opportunity to hand-pick a team that I wanted to play in the NBA Finals, it would probably be the Lakers.
That's one of the reasons I was drafted because I blocked three shots a game in college so I got to continue doing that in the NBA.
As an NBA player you want to help your team win at any cost, that's my main goal.
As an NBA fan, there is nothing more irritating than when the league's credibility is challenged by cockamamy conspiracy theories.
