Quotes from Ricky Rubio

By signing a contract, you accept the conditions, but there are ways and forms. Players are privileged, but those who are in charge of these things have to understand that, in addition of players, we are also people.

I use a lot of Pinterest to follow trends.

I prefer a small town where everybody knows everybody.

It's just something, 'Should I run the team or should I score?' I gotta learn how to balance that, and be more aggressive sometimes.

In 2001, I watched Kinder Bologna win the EuroLeague, and I thought, Damn, I want to the win that some day. I remember thinking it was the coolest thing in the world.

What makes a good team is putting the pieces together and make it work. As a veteran, it's part of my job to make that work. Seeing where and how the young talent has to sacrifice something for the team.

Minnesota was the team who drafted me and I don't want to think anything else. They were the one who trusted me and I'm so glad that they did.

If you look good but don't feel comfortable you're not gonna feel good. But don't wear white socks anywhere.

I like to read psychologist's books. 'The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari,' that's one of my favorites. Those kinds of books.

I think one of the hardest things to do in the league is not having a great year, but it's having a better year when you had a great year. All the attention is going to be on you, all the pressure is going to be on you. The challenge you're going to have is more mentally than anything else.

I know they like their sports in Minnesota.

I like Minnesota. But I want to win too.

I try to help the team. It doesn't matter if you have to score 50 points or zero.

I try to do it in both languages: English and Spanish. But sometimes I just Tweet in Spanish.

When I tweet in English, Spanish people get mad at me. When I tweet in Spanish, English people get mad at me. You never can be 100 percent for everybody, you know. I try to do both, at the same time; but it's hard.

It's hard when you're missing a lot of players.

We used to watch a lot of EuroLeague and ACB, which are the two leagues back home in Spain. And we used to dream about playing for those teams one day.

In Spain, we have a pretty good league - for me, I think it's the second-best league in the world. They play tough there, they play aggressive. The big difference is that we play only one game a week in Spain, maybe two.

I grew up idolizing Spanish basketball, and to be a part of another chapter of our country's success was really special to me.

I like the NBA game as a spectator.

When a point guard is unselfish and thinking about the team, about winning first, it relates to the other players. So, I think that is my style of play.

I feel like having good veterans like I had during my career really helped me improve my game and know the situation that we are.

When you're young, every game and every situation it seems like it's the end of the world sometimes when it's not working.

Sometimes losses come and it's hard.