Quotes from Karl-Anthony Towns

I'm not a guy who's about the material things.

You've got to win. You've got to win to be respected in this league.

My rookie year was so much easier, and it was so much shorter than most rookies due to the fact that I had KG. That changes everything. I was blessed to have the opportunity to play with KG - not only learn but play with KG. Not many people in the NBA are able to say that.

People who know me know I'm never satisfied.

It's hard to get me to even say I played good. That's just in me. I'm just never satisfied. A lot of my friends get annoyed by it.

I'm in the search for the perfect game.

I think the biggest thing is, you have to understand the different rules. There are so many rules that change from college to the NBA. Change of pace is a big thing, also.

That's why esports is so awesome: it's just like professional sports.

I think the biggest thing with me is that I just pride myself on being the best human being I can be.

I just feel that if you're the best human being, God will bless you with success.

You've gotta play a head game; especially blocking shots, you've gotta make it hard. You're playing against the best of the best: they're not gonna go straight to the basket, do a layup. You've gotta lure them into some shots.

You got to earn your buckets and earn your respect.

When you have a person like him who is going to tell you throughout the year about how to deal with little bumps in the road as the No. 1 pick, there's no one better to have than Andrew Wiggins.

When I was on the chubbier side, I thought that whatever God and whatever my body told me to be at that time, that's what it was. I'd say I grew more of an understanding about my body probably around my senior year in high school. I understood my body physically as an athlete.

It doesn't matter if it's game one or game 82, playoffs or whatever. Sometimes the basketball gods don't play in your favor that night.

We always have great practices, and the competition is high, and the intensity is high; it's just about doing that now in a game and sustaining it for 48 minutes.

Growing up, I'd always been told that my biggest weakness was my body and how that was probably going to hold me back from accomplishing my dreams.

For me, it's about trying to do everything I can to help us win. Try to bring that energy every night, try to make it as contagious as possible and try to win a game.

I don't necessarily view myself as a big - I view myself just as a player, someone who can go out there and contribute to the team from any position.

I've talked to a lot of NBA superstars and legends about how I can improve my IQ offensively and defensively.

Flip Saunders is a great coach and a great guy. Glen Taylor is the same way. He's a great human being.

We put pressure on ourselves because we want to be so great; we want to be the best team possible that we can be.

My favorite memory of Kevin Garnett is not a memory - it's more of the experience I had with him for a year, just enjoying that moment of being his teammate, conversing with him every single day, learning from him every single day.

The defense will tell you who shoots the ball. If it comes down to them trying to take the ball out of my hands, I trust my teammates to go out there and make every shot.