Quotes About Basketball

I get excited for the regular season also, but it's just added excitement when the playoffs start.

I always watch the playoffs.

This is what you dream about when you're a kid: You dream about March Madness, you dream about the NBA playoffs.

Washington helped me learn the game. Orlando gave me the opportunity to fight for a starting position and gave me the confidence to know I could compete in the NBA. In Detroit, I had a bond, a brotherhood with a group of guys. We stuck together. The bond we shared got us over the hump plenty of nights. We were the definition of true champions.

Basketball isn't one-on-one. It's five-on-five, plus the bench.

Nobody can stay in front of me, plus I'm strong, so I can get to the hole and finish at the same time.

My mom used to be a basketball player so I was really into it. Plus of course my height made it easier for me to decide what kind of sport I wanted to play, so at the age of nine I went to my first basketball practice.

The thing is 3,900 out of 4,000 college basketball players are very happy to have a scholarship. They're happy. They've got a $70,000 scholarship and they've got money in their pocket. It's the other hundred guys and they're all going to make money playing basketball and the top guys are going to make a lot of money.

I think I can score. But personally, I like to pass first, because people love people who pass. And I'm a point guard, so my job is to kind of get people open.

If someone wants to call me a Harlem Globetrotter, well, great, go ahead. I was very good at basketball. I was a really good point guard. I was the best passer.

Playing point guard is someone's instincts. They're used to that. That's my instincts.

My mentality when guarding a point guard was always to try and disrupt him and take them out of the offense.

I played point guard my whole life.

On the court, I want to try and get to the free-throw line a little more. And as a point guard, you can always get better at your decision-making and limiting your mistakes.

Being from New York, everybody's a point guard. Even when you play in the park, you've got to know how to handle the ball. If you can't handle the ball, you can't really play.

Kris Dunn is a very athletic point guard.

You ask what position I play, I say point guard.

It used to be you a needed a true center to win championships, but now the point guard position holds just as much weight.

I can play off the ball some, and that's fine with me as long as I can be out on the floor. But I am definitely more natural as a point guard than I am as a two guard.

With my game, my biggest asset is being a point guard who can get into the paint.

When you're younger, everyone wants to be a point guard. Everyone wants to shoot fadeaway jump shots all day. Nobody wants to be a big man. Nobody wants to go stand on the block and just set picks.

Plenty of times LeBron is mistaken as a point guard, which is awesome.

I wouldn't call myself a real point guard.

I have no handles, I'm no point guard.