Quotes from Brandon Ingram

I lay back and see how I can do things the right way.

I think as a player you're never satisfied.

I'm not the most vocal guy, but I try to lead by example every single day with how I work.

I've always been a shooter.

Sometimes shots just don't go my way, but for me in my growth and as a leader, it's important for me to stay aggressive.

I can shoot the basketball, I can get to the basket.

I have the same routine every day just to make me a better basketball player, and I'm going to continue the routine just to see where it gets me and how I can reach my potential.

I'm a believer everything happens for a reason.

My decision to go to Duke wasn't a surprise to people who really knew me because I was always a Duke fan growing up.

I really don't do much. I play basketball.

I don't do anything else but play basketball.

I feel like I'm a competitor. I hate to lose.

I was shooting over my head. With my long arms, it was like a slingshot. Coming from college to the NBA, I was only about 180 pounds, so I was trying to push the ball to the rim from the 3-point line.

Don't take for granted things.

People around me, they can give me talks, they can tell me what to do, but if I don't have the right mentality, then nothing good is going to happen for me because I'm not going to be confident.

I don't think I can be perfect, but I think I can be close to perfect if I continue to prepare and continue to do everything in my power to be the best version of myself.

On my youth teams, I always pretty good. I guess I just really started to play with some of my peers around age 8 or 9. We always battled and had fun playing in the rec leagues.

It's important for me to be aggressive and not defer.

It could be the best defender or the worst defender. I have to have the attitude that I don't think anyone is going to deter me from getting to the basket. Maybe help defense can come over and affect it, but not the first guy.

My great aunt raised me for about four or five years. Something I took from her was a quote: 'Fear of suffering is far worse than suffering itself.' I actually have that tattooed on the back of my arm.

I think I'm a good enough ball handler to bring the ball up the basketball court, and my teammates do a great job of getting open.

I feel like I gotta get out of myself sometimes. I think I'm in my own world sometimes. I don't like to let other people come into my own world. Especially with my teammates, my coaches, I should be doing that. The important people that need to know how I'm feeling. I can do a better job of telling them exactly how I feel.

That's all I seek every practice and every game, to progress in some way, be coachable and try to be the best I can be for my teammates.

It was fun getting my feet wet on an NBA floor.