Quotes About Competition

Nothing is guaranteed in the UFC, nothing is guaranteed in the NFL, so it's my lane. I'm very comfortable in this lane.

That's the great thing about sports - nothing's guaranteed.

There are no guarantees in the league, and the challenges will always be there.

In football, there are no guarantees.

There are no guarantees in football.

When I played, I just wanted to guard the best player, and I didn't want him to score. That was just it, just competing. Along the way, it just kept building that I could be a great defender.

I love when people think it's going to be easy to guard me.

When I got the call to guard Magic, I knew that I could cause him a lot of problems.

I love when people try to be physical with me. They think that's the way to try to guard me and to get physical with me. I use that to my advantage.

Esthetically, let's move the ball. Let's guard people. Let's fight.

It's hard to guard somebody like myself. It's tough.

You've got to be able to guard hard and then work yourself offensively to get shots.

There's not a lot of guys in this league who are tough for me to guard. It's a short list.

What I hate more than sitting out is being on the floor and not being 100 percent. You know you can make this move, or guard this guy better, but something is hampering you from doing it, and in the NBA. finals I hate that more than sitting out.

There are so many pick and rolls in an NBA game. It's so hard to guard.

It's fun down there to actually go up against a 7-footer and you know you're undersized and you know people are telling you that you can't guard this guy, you can't do that. I take it as a challenge.

If I improve on the jump shot then I will be hard to guard.

What would I do if I were being guarded by Marcus Smart? There's not much you can do!

I've guarded a lot of people.

Obviously people have guarded me a lot different because of me being able to make shots.

It's how I've been playing my whole life, guarding the best player on the other team.

In the NBA, there is a guy guarding you, and you really have to try shooting over him.

In college, I prided myself on defense and guarding the best player every night.

I've got the mind-set that I'm going to play as hard as I can, and I'm going to make the person guarding me work as hard as he can.