Quotes About Resilience

Since my early days, I've been used to playing with older boys and strong defenders.

No matter which defenders are in front of me, they better be scared because of me.

I'm not too complicated. I don't think I'm great on the eye. I work hard. I try to outwork defenders, and that's it.

Defending is definitely an art.

Defending is easy. You just have to want to defend. It's not like defending is hard. It's just, like, more of an attitude.

I don't think of us as defending ourselves. I think of us as a challenger, an attacker.

When I look at my career, I was really about defending.

Defending is mostly about focus.

Consistency is what you want, especially from a defense on the road.

You can't just score more points than last year without playing defense.

I always root for the defense.

Defense is about will and effort and a certain toughness you have to have.

I'll pinch-run all day, I'll play defense all day, it doesn't matter to me.

But as far as I'm concerned, I can still play defense.

You have to play defense, that's how you win.

There's always going to be a way for me to go around a defense or play mind games and find a way to win.

Basketball, you're not always going to have your best, but you find ways. If I'm not shooting well, I can pass, I can play defense. There's other things I can do. I can take that to golf.

You can't win championships without playing great defense.

It's not always fun. It burns inside to play defense. But you have to keep working and eventually defense is something you get used to.

I don't really worry about what the defense is trying to scheme to do against me. It really doesn't matter.

You don't have to think, you just have to play hard on defense.

That's the attitude you have to have on defense. You have to want to hit. You have to want to be physical.

I would make people who bullied me laugh, so that's my defense mechanism.

I work on my recoveries, coming back into the defensive line and things like that.