Quotes About Athletics

Growing up on a farm, I saw that if I didn't go to the military or go to school, and I knew my mom and my family wasn't going to be able to send me to school out of their pocket, so it basically came down to athletics. I knew I didn't want to work on a farm. I knew I didn't want to do manual labor the rest of my life.

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.

The pistol isn't going to go away, but the job in the long run is going to be to deliver the ball from the pocket.

I'm a natural pocket passer.

I've got to have two hands on the ball when I'm leaving the pocket, when I'm moving in the pocket.

I'm pretty confident in my ability to get out of the pocket, be fast and run on the field.

Fourth is the worst position to finish. You just missed the podium.

Every single race that I get on the podium in biathlon, I'm shocked.

I want to be the guy that's taking names, on the podium, and winning events.

When I see great boxers, it's like reading a wonderful poem.

I like the odds when I'm playing the point guard more.

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

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.

I am a point guard. It's a job that I'm not scared of.

I can probably go down in history as the best backup point guard ever in NBA history.

I definitely feel like I'm a really good playmaker, a really smart point guard that can lead his team and win.

I know I can play point guard.

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

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

My 10th grade year I was 6-foot-4 and I grew to like 6-foot-7, but I still had my guard skills. I was playing point guard, I was a big guard. People started calling me 'Penny Hardaway' - comparing me to him because I was a big guard.

I think I'm a shooting guard and a point guard, to be honest with you.

I don't like Derrick Rose, he'd rather score than distribute. That's not who I want as my point guard.

There's always a good point guard in this league.

I play a certain way and played like that for a while. Maybe you want a point guard to shoot 20 times, I like more to pass the ball and do my job running the team.