Kevin Garnett
I've never been an individual guy. I never cared about the accolades. I've always been driven by the competition and the learning process.Collection: Learning
Too much coffee. Too much coffee and Gatorade. It's a hell of a mix. If you're ever tired in the morning, just try that mix, and tell me what you think.Collection: Morning
Coaching takes patience. I'm more enthused when teaching players who want it versus when I have to.Collection: Patience
At the end of the day, you're responsible for yourself and your actions and that's all you can control. So rather than be frustrated with what you can't control, try to fix the things you can.
I'm not the type of person to give up just because something gets rough. That's a coward. That's not me.
I don't think anything less than perfect, even though I'm a human being. The way I work and go at things is to better myself in perfect terms.
Playing video games is something I enjoy in my spare time. I'm a gamer, always have been.
I learned one thing - never hate a positive option.
Some of my friends snowmobile. I'm a little scared of it.
I'm from the bottom, I understand what it's like to have and to not have. My perception on giving is to put yourself in those people's shoes and go from there. So that's what I did.
It's scary when one day the city is there and the next day it's gone. To see the water actual kill people, I couldn't believe it. I never fathomed it could bury a city.
The beautiful thing about when you go through a slide is that you learn from it. Not just saying that you learn from it, but applying the things that you have learned.
Performance is something we all strive to be better at. I'm no different than that. Who wants to look bad?
I don't play to sweat, I play to win.
We have to do the impossible, but it is possible.
I have a problem sometimes with being too hyper.
The last couple of practices, all we've been doing is a lot of defensive things. We've been going over some drills that make all of us have to communicate.
Kev has these old Boston drills, where you all have to talk to each other, and interact, and it's helped us.
So we take a lot of pride in that. It's really on us to turn this thing around. I think this last month we've done just that. We've pointed ourself in the direction that we want to be, and I think we're starting to head towards that. Right now we're in a nice rhythm.
Going from Flip to Kev, obviously you don't want to see someone ever lose their job. For me it's probably a little more difficult, because other than Bill Blair, Flip is all I knew.
So you're dealing with a coach, and you're dealing with a guy who's actually experienced NBA basketball from a player's perspective and actually goes about it that way.
We know that in order for us to turn this around, it doesn't matter how many coaches they bring in here, assistants, weight trainers, whoever, we're the ones that are going to have turn it around. And I think just took that responsibility on ourselves.
I would love to see Flip get back into the league. I think he can definitely still coach in this league. I think he will be in this league quicker than sooner.
Sometimes when I hear commentating, it's sickening. People who never played the game, people who never played in the league have an opinion, and that's all it is. You are here to educate the watcher or the viewer. Sometimes it comes off as personal. I don't ever want to come off like that. My opinion is my opinion about someone.
I'm very simple. I'm not for the flashes, I'm not for glitz and glamour, you know.
'Modern Warfare,' 'Black Ops,' these are all the next level of video games. The people are more detailed, the fighting is more exact, and I can't speak for every gamer out there, but I know when I play, I feel like I'm actually in the game. It's that intense.
Sometimes when I hear commentating, it's sickening. People who never played the game, people who never played in the league have an opinion, and that's all it is. You are here to educate the watcher or the viewer. Sometimes it comes off as personal.
I'm not someone who is going to give in to a lot of pressure. I've always understood that everything is not always going to be good.
There are a lot of things that frustrate me. I get frustrated when I have to wait at a red light.
I can't control if people like me; I can't control if people like my game.
I'm not for the flashes; I'm not for glitz and glamour, you know. I just want to win, I want to be good at what I do, um, and look back upon these days of playing in the NBA.
They say no matter how hard you work, there's always someone, somewhere working harder then you. Guess what.. I'm that someoneCollection: Matter
This is it. It's for all the marbles. I'm sitting in the house loading up the pump, I'm loading up the Uzis, I've got a couple of M-16s, couple of nines, couple of joints with some silencers on them, couple of grenades, got a missile launcher. I'm ready for war.Collection: Funny
This ain't the Girl Scouts. This ain't the Boy Scouts. This is the NBA.Collection: Girl
I want to be known as the best teammate ever.Collection: Teammate
I'm like Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. If I'm not ready, the sled isn't going to go.Collection: Basketball
Timing is everything. Chemistry is something that you don't just throw in the frying pan and mix it up with another something, then throw it on top of something, then fry it up and put it in a tortilla and put in a microwave, heat it up and give it to you and expect it to taste good. You know? For those of you who can cook, y'all know what I'm talking about. If y'all can't cook, this doesn't concern you.Collection: Talking
They're really aggressive. They're like roaches on bread - you drop some on the floor and, boom, they're on it.Collection: Basketball
I'm not a star, man. If a guy came in here and shot you and shot me, we'd both be two dead people. You understand?Collection: Stars
The competition, the naysayers, the owners who talk too much. The people who don't think a 36-year-old can do what I do. I take a lot of pride in my craft, I work really hard at my craft everyday, and I'm a true professional.Collection: Pride
In my walks of life, I've understood that it takes more than one person to think of achieving a goal, and it takes more than one or two players, to get you out of the position you're in.Collection: Player
When you first come out, it's transition. You gotta find your routine, days you don't feel like doing it, you don't have to do it. But you know, it's in you. I like to think anyone wants to look good, I'm no different from that. More importantly, I wanna be healthy enough to run with my kids.Collection: Running
If anybody knows me, knows that I'm a workhorse, not just on the floor, but psychologically. I meditate a lot, I like to get massages, do yoga. I like to keep a balance.Collection: Yoga
I think when you get tired of something or someone annoys you, there's two things you can do. You can ignore it and keep going, or you can stand up and say stop.Collection: Tired
Coaching takes patience.Collection: Coaching
Flip's a player's coach, and I do know one thing, he motivates better than anybody I know. His system is very oriented around the point guard. He and Steph (Marbury) had a great relationship when Steph was in Minnesota.Collection: Basketball