Quotes from Harrison Barnes

At the end of the day, you're a person before you are a basketball player.

Coach Kerr is cool, I got a chance to spend a lot of time with him and talk to him not only about basketball, but adjusting to the Bay Area as well as his experiences and my experiences.

I love the Bay Area.

History is so deep, especially black history, so I have a lot to learn.

I think Basketball Without Borders is huge just because of the platform that basketball is.

People assume that just because you get paid a lot of money and have a lot of attention that all of the sudden you're guaranteed this many shots. I have to prove that every day in practice.

I didn't have cable growing up. The only games I saw were the NBA on Sundays and the NBA Finals.

I've been a role player on a championship team, and I've learned a lot from that.

Coming from the sports world, I'm interested in the secrets of team culture and chemistry.

Being able to win gold would be huge because you're playing for so much more than your team, your organization, or your city. You're playing for your country, and to be able to represent Team U.S.A. across your chest and go up there and compete, it's the highest honor.

For as long as I could remember, I've wanted to play basketball at the University of North Carolina. Funny thing is, there was a long period of time when I wasn't sure how much they wanted me.

You have to have that balance of scoring and playmaking, and learn how to be a closer.

At Carolina, I was surrounded by great players, and we felt like we were one of the more talented teams in the country. My job was to score. In the NBA, it's different.

I feel like if you start letting other people dictate how you're going to play the game, you shouldn't play the game. That's just that simple.

I know there is an opportunity to make some money and have a life-changing effect on me and those things are great. I don't take those things for granted whatsoever, but my focus is really on my craft.

I think it's important that we as athletes do whatever we can to help kids, primarily helping kids of color.

You've got to just be productive, do what you need to do on the court whether its ball movement, isolation, whatever type of system you're in, and do the best that you can do.

You know, seeing the analytics explosion in the NBA. It wasn't something I was really into in college but in the NBA everything is numbers and how you can be more efficient, so that led to me trying to make my body more efficient, and obviously Fitbit was at the top of the line for that so it made sense.

I love to get involved with the community by doing programs that promote literacy and education.

Basketball is my first love, but it's not my only one.

Giving back to Ames is something that me and my wife have tried to do since I've been in the League and I've been fortunate enough to be able to give back.

Obviously, I'm not complaining about my role at Golden State, because we won a lot of games doing that.

I've been very fortunate throughout my life with a number of opportunities, a number of great people that have helped me be in the position that I am today to be an NBA basketball player and to be living out my dream.

I think winning a championship, for me, it put things in perspective. You can either be a great player on a so-so team, or you can be a role player on a championship team, or, in an extreme case, a great player on a championship team.