Quotes from Nikola Vucevic

You want to try to always do the right thing and show kids the right way to live.

You can always get better and there's no age limit where you can stop getting better as a player.

It's sometimes hard to separate yourself from basketball when you go home from practice or games.

When you hit adversity on the road, you don't get to go home and spend time with your family or friends.

I have a good feeling for the game. I know the game.

You are going to run into some bad stretches - that's just part of the season - but while we're playing well and feeling good, we have to take advantage and get as many wins as we can.

I should have taken school more seriously. I did OK, but I'm wishing I had put a little more into it.

When you have guys who know how to play, things happen quicker.

Once you kind of get into that rhythm where you grab a lot of rebounds every game, it kind of gets easier.

I don't take anything for granted.

I can pop, I can roll, I can do different things. And sometimes guards are not used to having a big man who can do all those things.

That's the best part and why you play the game - to get to the playoffs and to get to those big games, especially the ones where you have to come through or you go home. There's so much pressure, but as an athlete you want to thrive under that pressure because that separates the great from good players.

The most important thing is to be consistent. There are so many games, it's hard to play at a high level consistently.

When you achieve a high level in this league you want to do everything that you can to maintain it or do even better.

My job, I've made it as far as I can and have gotten to the highest level.

All of the individual honors are great, but there's nothing better than winning as a team. Even your individual awards are much better when you win.

That was a huge part part of my game, the postups and something I did a lot.

Anything, any job you want to do in the world, you have to put in the work, especially when it comes to being a professional athlete - a lot of education, a lot of sacrifice, and a lot of work, but it's all worth it at the end when you make it.

To have people come up to me and congratulate me and little kids telling me I'm their 'idol,' it's all great.

Wherever I go in Orlando, people always are nice to me and say, 'hi' and want to talk to me. And when they yell, 'VOOOOOOCH!' in games I love that.

I'm going to be vocal, but I'm not going to be just yelling around. That's not me. But I can go talk to guys. I can lead by example by my hard work and my approach every day and with how I prepare for games, practices.

I've had a great family, great parents, sister and with my wife, I was lucky to meet her at a young age. She stuck with me through the long distance, so that was great.

I watched so many of the Bulls games and so many of the Jordan highlights and everything else, watched 'The Last Dance' when it came out.

To me, Jordan is obviously the greatest to ever do it. I grew up idolizing him. I still do. I still watch his highlights. I'm a big MJ guy.