Quotes About Effort

No player in this league - they might be really, really good and they look like they're playing nonchalant, but they're not.

You get better by playing, honestly. That's where you develop as a player is to play through mistakes in game action.

As a player you just concentrate on your game.

I always say, it's not the shoes; it's the player. If you can hoop, you can hoop.

Players alone don't win championships. It takes an entire organization. Someone has to acquire the players. Someone has to coach them. Someone has to generate revenue to pay them. But at the end of the day, the players are the ones who put their minds and bodies on the line to win.

We players are very well aware that being a favourite won't win you a game, that your jersey won't win you a game.

The best thing you can say about any coach is his players play hard for him.

The players on the pitch have the responsibility to run harder, fight harder.

I think fans appreciate players who give everything in a game.

I always say the best players I have ever worked with are the hardest players I have ever worked with.

For us players, we just go into each game trying to win it and see where it takes us.

You can't be playing halfway or you are gonna get halfway results.

I'm gonna have some nights when it's not gonna come. But if you keep playing natural, it's just gonna come. I'm gonna keep getting better, keep getting better, and one day, everything's gonna pay off.

Playing basketball for me is like breathing.

I think a player should be evaluated for what he does on the playing field.

I mean, that's playoff hockey. You're not going to dominate every game, you're not going to score every goal.

I think it should be hard to get into the playoff. It really should.

I've been in the league 12 years. To sit on the bench and complain about the way things were, that doesn't get anything done. I don't know. I'm playing for a championship and trying to make the playoffs. My effort has never changed.

You put in the work, you should get to the playoffs.

I've been on teams that never made it to the playoffs. It wasn't fun playing meaningless football.

I really don't know what it takes to make it to the playoffs.

We know how hard it is to get to the playoffs in general, and then to get to the NFC Championship Game. You just never know if you'll have the opportunity again, so you really want to make the most of it.

You always want to feel better but I'm good. My thing is once you get to the playoffs, you do whatever it takes. You've got to lay it on the line.

When you make the playoffs, it's like you've done your job for the team. I've got that moment in my mind all the time, and I want to be there again.