Quotes from Robert Horry

You cannot get complacent because there's someone out there working harder than you. So you got to keep pushing yourself to be an elite player.

I did not have a dog with a diamond collar. I was never flashy.

I enjoy Otis Thorpe; he took me under his wing when I was a rookie. I'm also a fan of Ron Harper. He showed me the ropes and showed me what it was to play in the NBA.

You want to win a championship, but you want to be considered one of the best of all time. All-Star. Hall of Fame.

I always say the Boston Celtics of the 1960s were the only true dynasty, because they won nine titles in a 10-year span.

The Laker brand and name itself is fantastic. When you have a guy like Kobe Bryant in that brand also, it takes it out of this world. I think the fact that everybody sees the work ethic this guy has makes them work harder.

I think free throws are harder because you have more time to think about it, and every eye is on you. When it's a trey, you catch and shoot.

When I played, you had a lot of enforcers. You would go to the hole, get knocked down, and the referee would look at you and say, 'Get stronger, get up, and keep playing.'

When you're out there thinking too much, that's when you can throw the ball away a lot of times. Just play. When I don't think, I have fun.

It's hard to guard two dynamic players working together rather than guarding them going one-on-one.

When you win a championship, period, it never hits you until you get home the next day.

You put pressure on yourself to go out and do better. And when you try to do too much, and you're thinking about it too much, it can throw your game off.

They always remember the last thing you do. They don't remember the things before.

Every year's going to be a what-if. That's the game of basketball. What if a guy turns his ankle? What if a guy gets in a car wreck coming to the arena? There are so many different aspects that could happen that nobody knows. Only the man upstairs knows.

I'm not a big golfer, but I love to go get a bucket of balls and just smack the balls around. That's my type of game. When I do play, it's mostly in charity tournaments.

25 was my number in high school and college. But when I got traded to Lakers, it was retired, and Derek Fisher had 2, so I was stuck with 5. Nothing more special behind it than that.

When I got traded to the Lakers in '97, Kobe Bryant was just a rookie.

Learn your craft. You want to be a doctor or a teacher - it's very important to learn your craft and indulge in it. You have to get involved and learn as much as possible and go for it.

If I played basketball, and you played with me, and all of a sudden you become my head coach, there isn't anything you can tell me, dude. Because your years in the league were just as long as mine. Why are you coaching me? That's one of the things that I hate.

Now Rubio, I like the way he plays. He's a very skilled player.

Whenever I hear people crying about Kobe yelling at people in practice or wondering whether or not LeBron is best friends with his teammates, I just roll my eyes. You know how many off-court conversations I had with the Zen-Master Phil Jackson in my entire time with the Lakers? One.

Some days, I feel like being known as a smart players, sometimes clutch.

The thing about playing basketball in Houston was we had a great coach, great system, and we had guys that believed in me. Once you get that belief in you, it's easy to play basketball, so, we really never had so-called role players.

I always get amazed as to how we always need to have someone as the best of something. Why can't we have two people as the best at something?