Quotes About Performance

When you play at City with top players, you don't have a guaranteed place in the starting eleven.

You are not guaranteed to be part of that story if you don't perform.

It's down to me to be fit and in form. You're not guaranteed a place just because you cost a certain amount of money.

I'm the best guard in this league, defensively, man, hands down.

It's nothing against anybody else. I just don't feel like anybody can guard me.

Something I've come to really admire about Kyrie is that he's always computing out there - he's logging everything that happens, and since nobody can guard him, that's scary to think about.

At the end of the day, a point guard's got to do his job.

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

When you drop your guard in films, the acting process compensates. You get lazy and you start acting.

You say you're a comedian, you always have to be on guard.

I try to use my athleticism and my strength to be able to guard bigger guys, and being able to guard bigger guys is going to get me more minutes on the floor.

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.

It's kind of like, I'm just a guard.

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

I guarantee that if you ask anyone who is guarding me, they won't say I'm taking plays off. It's actually a compliment to me that I make the game look that easy, where people think I don't play that hard.

When I go on the basketball court, I don't think about who's guarding me.

I try to exploit things against everybody; that's part of the game: beat the guy that guards me while you're beating their team.

The problem is when you start comparing numbers to other point guards. The league is about numbers, and it's crazy. You make those comparisons, and I'm losing every battle.

You can ask all the best players in the NBA - there's not one player in the NBA that guards them like me.

Guard some point guards, late shot clock, hopefully they miss.

There are a lot of great point guards in the NBA.

Don't try to guess what a casting director wants.

I showed people that it's not about guessing what people can do. It's about saying, 'Here, show me what you can do.'

I love watching people, guessing what they are going to do next. I'm no Derren Brown, but I love that people stuff. Maybe that's why I'm an actor.