Quotes About Rebounding

I'm just trying to help any in any opportunity I get. If that's scoring the ball, defensively, rebounding.

I think the Pistons have such a well rounded team, which is why they're so successful. All you have to do is look at the stats defensively and at their rebounding and scoring.

What I really lick my chops for is when you get the offensive rebounds at the end of the third quarter, fourth quarter. That really just sucks the life out of the opponent. You can see it in their face, especially when you're on the road, it just takes the whole energy out of the arena. That's what I live for.

I'm able to guard multiple positions, switch and pick and rolls, guard from two to four and be able to help my defence out and rebound the basketball, block shots.

I'm a good rebounder, good on switching screens good defender; I'm looking to improve my offense and hopefully I can go out there show what I can do.

As for my speed, I'm not the fastest, but just like in other sports, you learn to stay away from your weaknesses and make more use of your strengths: my shooting ability, court awareness, rebounding, and helping out defensively.

A lot of offensive rebounding is a lot of desire, a little bit positioning.

As a big man, rebounding is a big part of the game and it's also a huge part of our defense and being able to finish possessions off.

I like to score when I can, but if I can't do that, I like to do the other things - defense, blocking, rebounding.

I try to attack the glass, get rebounds and create possessions for my teammates because that's what I'm here to do. But if they face guard or put two or three guys on me I'm going to keep going to the glass and keep being relentless.

I don't know if I ever said I'm going to get a lot of offensive rebounds. As far as I can remember that's been something I've done. I'm not sure how that happened. That's a way to help my teammates, so I'm happy doing it.

I pride myself on defending and rebounding.

Rebounding in practice and rebounding in games are two completely different things.

Kobe Bryant is a terrific offensive rebounder.

I think when I came into the league, I had to find something that would keep me around. I knew I wasn't going to get the ball a lot, being the younger guy on my team. I knew I wasn't going to play a lot unless I made some sort of impact on the floor. I wasn't the best shot blocker, so I said, 'Let's be the best rebounder the league has ever seen.'

My rebounding on both ends of the floor is my best quality.

I can't really explain how some games I can get so many rebounds and some I can't. It just comes down to being aggressive and really going for it on both ends of the floor.

Whether you're talking about the 70s Knicks or the 90s Knicks, the championship-caliber teams, it all starts with your defense, your rebounding, your willingness to play for each other.

It helps me get rebounds, I can see over the defense pretty easily, and yeah, I thank God he blessed me with height.

The one thing I do that nobody else does is jump three and four times for one rebound.

Playing two bigs out there is always a lot of fun. Banging on the rebounds, crashing the glass. It always feels better when you got another big down there with you.

Once you kind of get into that rhythm where you grab a lot of rebounds every game, it kind of gets easier.

You can't play like that in any conference, where bigs just continually get offensive rebounds and get fouled and get to the free throw line.

You've got to try to guard, make an effort to defend to the best of your ability. You have to rebound the ball, which was an area that was so critical. And they wanted you to play smart and have fun. I've kind of tried to let our people understand those are the most important things that I could possibly tell them.