Quotes About Scoring

I've always been a high-percentage shooter, obviously because I'm dunking and laying the ball up.

You cannot score 10 goals from 10 shots - that's impossible - but I am trying.

I make shots, and that's what I am.

Some people see ESPN. They see the long shots. They see me scoring the basketball, but they don't show often too many assists - and I've been doing that my whole career, being able to get the ball to the guy at the right time.

Most of my shots are threes and long 2-point jumpers.

Obviously, there is not one player in the world that doesn't like making shots.

All of my shots are dunks or are around the rim.

If you can use the takedown to control the fight, then that can be scored as octagon control. However, if you're taking somebody down, and not doing much with it, and if the guy gets right back up, then I think that stand-ups and escapes should also carry some weight in the judge's eyes.

If it's a nationally televised game in the past, and I've been scoring 6, 7 and 8 points, I feel like I had a bad game in my mind.

Football, for me, is the most ever-changing sport in the world, because you can go seven games in a row, scoring in all of them; then, you don't score for two games, and already you're doing badly. You're in crisis.

Who doesn't want the ball? Everyone wants the ball; everyone wants to score.

I feel that every time I get the ball at the moment I am going to score.

When you have strikers who move a lot, and they give you the chance to play balls for them, it is really good.

In the postseason, as many ways as you can get on base as possible is big.

You can't play Around the World in the NBA, you've gotta go to the basket.

When you get some easy baskets, the basket definitely looks like it's much larger.

I still have my back to the basket because there's going to be times where I'm going to really have to score down low, but I'm really working on my face-up game because in the league, there's more space, and there's not double-teams and triple-teams coming at you like how it was in college.

For me, an assist is the same as getting a basket.

I know I can get to the basket whenever I want, but I've got to be able to create some plays, like easy plays.

I have to be able to shoot the ball, I have to be able to dangerous not only going to the basket but on the perimeter.

I can shoot the basketball, I can get to the basket.

You've gotta be able to score around the basket.

When I played, it was the center's duty to be within 10 feet of the basket.

At the end of the day, it's basketball. You've got to put the ball in the basket.