Quotes About Basketball

I've been shooting all my life.

I'm one of the best all-around small forwards in the world.

The thing I really want to do is make the All-Star team and have an All-Star season. If I do that, then I know my team is going to be winning.

I want to be an All-Star. That's my goal. And win a title.

You never think that you're going to be in the NBA but be an All-Star as well.

I want to go to the NBA and be an All-Star, to be honest with you.

The Stepover definitely made me famous. The thing with Allen Iverson is, he made me.

In terms of playing for my father, that was an amazing experience that me and him got to do. But that was that.

Because I play in NBA, I am like ambassador of Yugoslavia. Los Angeles before, nobody hear of Yugoslavia. Now I think much people who look at basketball hear of Yugoslavia.

The structure of college basketball never made sense to me. The coach is the star and you get up at 5:30 A.M. to run before class. That was never appealing to me.

Defenses had to play us, obviously, out to the arc, but it was really, to me, my mid-range game that was probably more dangerous than my 3-point shot.

Once I argue with somebody, I'm cool; I let it pass. I'm back to playing basketball.

Well, in East Slade, hockey ruled. Oh, the people here loved the high school football team and we had a decent basketball team too, but hockey was king around here.

Chantal and I are on opposite teams, so we have to cover each other. The guys have this weird way with us. For example, if we travel or double-dribble they won't call us on it, or, if we get knocked down by a good block they'll yell, "Foul!" and one of us gets to take a shot. But this favouritism also has a downside because they're always telling us what to do, like we don't know the rules of basketball or something.

I'm not coach D'Antoni. I have to coach to my version of pace-and-space. We all steal from each other, but a lot of us have stolen from him.

I played a little basketball, but basketball interfered with theater season. That's when we did our term plays and did nutshell versions of Shakespeare for English classes. And, believe me, I got a fair amount of looks from the guys on the team. 'You're in theater but you can play football?'

Sports formed me. I was always decently skilled but lacked size, so I had to resort to using my skill versus my power. I strategically play golf because that's all I can do. It's the same on the basketball court. I try to get open and shoot it. Or I use the open space on the soccer field.

I've gotten better at calling out coverages, communication, and being vertical when they're attacking me in the paint.

Karl Malone used a lot of veteran stuff that I thought was cool. Charles Barkley taught me a lot when I played against him. How he would use his body or use his dribble to get people in there and all that stuff. Veteran moves.

For me to stay in basketball, it would just have to be a veteran team.

A lot of former players always say that college is a great basketball experience. The fans, going to school, being on campus... it's a great vibe.

Summertime where guys played pickup, we got a thing in Philly called Summertime Rec. In that summertime you can't duck no smoke. You can't duck nobody in that basketball vibes.

The atmosphere at Duke is just unbelievable. When people say that you can feel the vibrations in the gym it's not a lie.

I've had mental errors before while not shooting the ball well and while shooting the ball well, and vice versa. So I can't compound one on top of the other. It's just a matter of getting out of the groove of shooting bad and just staying more locked in.