Quotes About Evaluation

I looked at my stats, and I was like, 'I'm too big and too athletic to average three rebounds a game.'

I don't know how we judge performance when you have 13 pass attempts to the other guy's 40.

Sometimes it is good to hear criticism because you are more attentive.

I never went on an audition - when they were really looking at everybody.

Talking about auditions, you never know what anyone else is thinking.

If I don't like someone and I start reading their stuff, it seems like my brain will just automatically start criticizing everything that's there. It's really hard to read a book without having all this outside information telling you what to think about it.

Being in the media is one of those things that so many guys say they'd like to do after they play. But you need to actually try a few different avenues to see if you like it - or if you'd be good at it.

When you look at not just for Sixth Man but also for any award in the NBA even when it comes to the MVP, you should look at their impact to their team.

I'm not a doctor. I can only assess that Donald Trump that I knew in 2003 and the Donald Trump that I knew in 2017. And he is not the same man.

Does the draft really matter? At the end of the day, at the end of your career, at the end of time, does it really matter?

When the draft comes and goes, there's a certain set of players you acquire and there's a whole bunch of others you had interest in acquiring. That doesn't die.

You don't hit on every player. On every trade. On every draft pick. Show me a team that's hit on every one. And I'll applaud that team.

You just constantly are evaluating and learning and drawing players and coverages and talking through it. It's part of making you the player, how you want to approach the game.

I've been evaluating how much I value happiness in my life. To be too driven takes away your happiness.

I'm not dumb enough to call up a bad player.

It can be an educational thing to play your songs to people because you see where you've gone right and where you've gone wrong.

India has given too much emphasis on players' records than on the actual performance of the team.

I judge everybody on the Farage Test. Number one, would I employ them? Number two, would I go for a drink with them?

Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. If you look at it to admire it, you are lost.

It's not like I'm nervous of people seeing what I can or can't do on camera or on TV or anything, or what my engineers think.

I find that quite enjoyable, trying to see the downsides of someone.

I've been doing this long enough that you can tell when people have seen you in something they didn't enjoy, and when they have seen you in something they actually enjoyed.

You come on my course and enter my world - I don't care who you are or where you're from - you're a number until you prove yourself otherwise.

I over-scrutinize anyone new entering my life.