Quotes from Kristaps Porzingis

I believe whenever you're winning and doing the right thing, you're stats will be fine, and everything else will come in place.

My quiet place is in the gym. When I feel like going to church, it's for me the MSG training facility and working on my game.

I'm really focused on getting better as a player.

Maybe in Latvian one day I'll rap a little bit, but definitely not in English.

You always gotta find a little bit of time for the girls, right?

It's not a good feeling when you get booed. But I don't want to be good because somebody booed me. I want to be great player because that's the way I am.

I heard New York fans and people in New York are hard-working fans, so they want to see players work hard on the court. That's the first thing I've got to do.

Don't worry about me; my moment will come. I'll be ready for it. I will work hard, and whenever it's gonna come, whenever the coaches are gonna trust me, I'm gonna be on court and give 100 percent.

That's one thing about Americans: They know how to have fun.

With my height, I probably wouldn't be able to make money playing pingpong, but I would just have fun with it. The table is too low for me.

I loved the Lakers in '09 and 2010. I used to get up early with my brother Janis, and we watched them win the titles.

I just really love the game. I'm very hungry, and I'm looking forward to playing in the best league in the world.

I think Carmelo is a great player. He makes players around him better. Whatever thing, whatever Carmelo wants me to do, I will do that out on the court just to prove that I'm worthy enough to be on the court with him, starting with the dirty jobs - just getting rebounds, getting shots, getting blocks, and just running the court.

You can never really relax until you've signed that contract with your team.

Of course the defenders are trying to be physical with me. They look at me, 7-3, skinny, they try to be physical.

Some girls are intimidated by my height, obviously. But a lot of girls do like it, so that's cool.

A coach I had in Spain, Scott Roth, he used to call me Zinger. He would yell at me all the time, 'Zinger!' It's just stuck in my head that I don't like that name.

For the triangle to really work, everybody needs to be on the same page and know how to play it.

I love the triangle. It's a great offense if you execute it well.

I like the triangle. My first season, the whole first season, we played nothing but the triangle, so I know it pretty well.

I knew there were going to be boos if the Knicks drafted me. That's how New York fans are.

I want to have a long career in the NBA. First, I want to be an All-Star, and hopefully one day I can win a ring with the New York Knicks.

That's something that I gotta prove - I don't like being labeled as 'soft.' I'm not soft.

My older brothers, they know how to keep my head straight and be thinking about what I need to do on the court. Now I have that in me, that mentality, that I want to get better and better every game. Thanks to them, they showed me the way.