Quotes About Competition

You can't play Around the World in the NBA, you've gotta go to the basket.

I'm a playmaker, and I'm going to score. At the end of the day, my job is to put the ball in the basket.

Most teams don't do anything. Really it's just take the ball out the basket, pick-and-roll, and run.

At the end of the day, it's basketball. You've got to put the ball in the basket.

I like playing many other sports, such as basketball.

I don't watch college basketball.

Basketball is basketball.

Basketball was always my game.

I love basketball.

I play a lot of basketball.

Balling is balling; it is all just basketball for me and I'm used to playing both games, so it really does not matter if it is international style, American style; it does not matter at all for me.

I have feelings, but not when it comes to basketball. I'm here to win. I'm not here to make friends.

Basketball is big stuff in New York. If you're good in it, everybody respects you. Nobody would want to ruin your shooting eye or your shooting arm.

There're a lot of rules to basketball.

I had eleven varsity letters. I loved basketball the best, but cross-country is a little more under your control.

Basketball is pretty big in Latvia.

The only thing I can control is winning on the basketball court.

I was a very shy kid. The only place I had confidence was in between the lines of a basketball court.

I'm a basketball player. I'm going to compete every night, play some good ball and get better.

This game's a lot easier early on in your career because people haven't seen you play. Things got a lot harder when people saw what I did with the ball and began to think about how to bat against me.

Your ability will get you the job, but you also need to have age on your side. So if you started your career at 21, you have an advantage over others in your batch who started at, say, 24.

I don't like watching others batting and scoring runs I could be scoring. It is nice to see guys being successful but at the same time I want to be the one out there doing it.

For me, in football, everything is possible, and every game is a battle.

I like that defender-versus-striker battle, that challenge.