Quotes from Pat Connaughton

I bring a winning mentality.

Sometimes the hardest shot is when people are giving you space to shoot, because it messes with your head.

I drank a lot of milk as a kid so maybe I can get on a 'Got Milk?' commercial at some point.

I think there are a lot of people who say they want to be professional athletes, say they want to make millions of dollars, but don't necessarily like doing the hard work that goes into it.

You see people say: 'He should go back to baseball. He should do this; he should do that.' Those are people who said I would never even make it here. There's always another hurdle to go over, and it's fun to use that as motivation.

Kids of this day and age know you don't necessarily have to specialize in one sport no matter how much society and your coaches are pushing you towards that.

Baseball-wise, the Orioles specifically love that I haven't pitched as much as other guys coming into Major League Baseball.

You've gotta feel at home when you're on the mound.

I think it would be pretty cool, whether it would be basketball or baseball, playing for a national team.

I'd love to play in Cowboys Stadium or one of those football stadiums.

One thing that the coaching staff and the assistant coaches did a really good job of working me on was shaping myself into an NBA guard.

It's just like any job. We're either in the arena or working out during certain hours of the day, but you have other hours for things that you want to do during the day as a human being, and for me, maybe I don't go shopping. Maybe I go into my backyard and throw against a net.

One of the things that I've always had fun with is the stereotype 'white man can't jump.' It's followed me along my whole career and it's something that obviously I've tried to disprove many times.

Winning a championship in Milwaukee, it's not about my other business. It's about bringing the notoriety to a great city.

For me, it was my dream as a kid to play two sports at the highest level I possibly could. Doing that at Notre Dame just meant I had to sacrifice in ways a normal college student wouldn't have had to sacrifice.

I graduated from Notre Dame.

Notre Dame was the first school to offer me basketball-wise.

We were able to change the mold of the regular season for Notre Dame basketball, so we thought, 'Why can't we do it in the postseason?'

I think October baseball is a lot of fun to follow, being a biased guy that enjoys the sport from time to time.

For me, it's about making the winning plays, making the right plays, making the basketball plays and being aggressive whether it's on defense or offense.

I realized if and when I ever put my mind strictly to baseball. I can do some things very few people in this world can.

You look at the body types of some of the strongest people in the world, they're compact. They can move their body weight because there's not as much distance to go.

Part of being in the 450 players within the NBA, it's kind of a fraternity field, and if I can help them get involved in some business ventures they have interest in and help educate them along the way, I feel it is my duty to do so.

For me, I like any win I can get. It doesn't really matter where it is or who it's versus.