Quotes from Jose Calderon

I can open the floor for other guys. I've always put the team first.

Every little possession and every little detail can help you win a game or that possession.

The problem is when you start comparing numbers to other point guards. The league is about numbers, and it's crazy. You make those comparisons, and I'm losing every battle.

You can't compare my numbers to the other point guards. I'm a different kind of player - if you like it or not.

Be on time, work hard every day, try to help your teammate, look for the team first. If you do that, everybody's gonna respect you.

The more important thing is I wanted to show that I can play and have fun. In L.A. I couldn't because they were going in a different direction.

I think I can be helpful for a lot of teams.

It's about enjoying what you do, and that's what I try to tell everybody, 'Hey. When we wake up tomorrow, let's go hard again and let's try to do better.' That's all we can do, and that has been me all these years. I'll keep doing that until I retire.

The NBA is getting bigger. Basketball is getting better around the world. There are more players. There are better coaches around it, so that's why there are more international players, not only Hispanic players, but from everywhere.

It's always good when you're in a place where they really want you. That makes a huge difference.

There are so many people who helped me during all those years in Toronto for everything. Not just about basketball, it's everything. Like life, with my family. Everything.

At the end of the day, you're representing a team, you're representing a city, you got to go out there and play.

When I was 13 years old, that's when my team assigned me - and I wound up living, like, six hundred kilometers from my home to play basketball.

Trying to speak English, to learn what my teammates were saying, to learn what I wanted to say - basketball, you have to learn the way to play here and get used to your teammates, but for me the toughest part was communication.

I have got pictures of me sleeping on the bench when I was four years old while my dad was practicing. I used to go to practice with him all of the time and they would play until it was late. I sometimes got tired and I would be sleeping there, but it was inside so not too bad.

At the end of the day, maybe I'm not like the other guys. Maybe I'm not as fast as them. I cannot jump as high as them. But it's been 11 years for me now. You just play different.

I don't need to be the fastest or be able to jump highest to be effective or do the right things to help the team.

I'm not happier because I'm starting on the Knicks. I could be starting, I could be coming off of the bench, and I'd be the same way.

Anybody that we can get here or would be interested, I'd be willing to talk to, to try to make them come to the Knicks. I think we are one of the best franchises ever. Everybody wants to play here.

My dad played for... the Villanueva de la Serena, so I guess that's why I play basketball instead of soccer.

I watched zero NBA basketball growing up. It was available but it was too late and I had school.

In the NBA you are pretty confident but you are one phone call away from being somewhere else; you've just got to be ready for everything.

I've missed too much of my family life. I want to spend more time with my wife and kids.

I don't have family in Mexico. Nothing. I'm just from Spain.