Top 40 Robert Horry Quotes

After I got to the NBA, I had one goal: stay in the league for a while.

If I played basketball, and you played with me, and all of a sudden you become my head coach, there isn’t anything you can tell me, dude. Because your years in the league were just as long as mine. Why are you coaching me? That’s one of the things that I hate.

I love playing videogames.

It takes a lot to become a dynasty.

A luck shot is one of those guys who has no form.

You know, pass now to pinch post, cut, shoot the shot. Do things to facilitate the offense. That’s what I did in Alabama.

I always get amazed as to how we always need to have someone as the best of something. Why can’t we have two people as the best at something?

I never cared for stuff like the All-Star Game.

When you win a championship, period, it never hits you until you get home the next day.

You’ve got to be fearless.

I’m very happy with my career, don’t get me wrong.

You cannot get complacent because there’s someone out there working harder than you. So you got to keep pushing yourself to be an elite player.

You want to win a championship, but you want to be considered one of the best of all time. All-Star. Hall of Fame.

Now Rubio, I like the way he plays. He’s a very skilled player.

My best coach was Rudy Tomjanovich because he asked the players what they wanted to do. He felt we had a feel for the game.

It’s huge just to get a game in the NBA Finals.

I pick good big men as teammates, don’t I?

Everything doesn’t work for everybody.

Just once, I’d like a commercial.

I had a couple of investments that didn’t go my way. That’s why I laugh at guys who say, ‘Oh, I’m going to open a clothing line. I’m going to start a restaurant.’

I’m a big video game golfer!

Every year‘s going to be a what-if. That’s the game of basketball. What if a guy turns his ankle? What if a guy gets in a car wreck coming to the arena? There are so many different aspects that could happen that nobody knows. Only the man upstairs knows.

When I played, you had a lot of enforcers. You would go to the hole, get knocked down, and the referee would look at you and say, ‘Get stronger, get up, and keep playing.’

You can’t convince people of certain things. You let them think what they want to think.

If you’re in big-time situations all the time – like for me, high school was big-time situations, college, big time situations – you adapt.

A lot of guys, when the ball is coming, sit there and look at the clock; then it makes you rush your shot.

I did not have a dog with a diamond collar. I was never flashy.

I enjoy Otis Thorpe; he took me under his wing when I was a rookie. I’m also a fan of Ron Harper. He showed me the ropes and showed me what it was to play in the NBA.

The thing about playing basketball in Houston was we had a great coach, great system, and we had guys that believed in me. Once you get that belief in you, it’s easy to play basketball, so, we really never had so-called role players.

I’m not a big golfer, but I love to go get a bucket of balls and just smack the balls around. That’s my type of game. When I do play, it’s mostly in charity tournaments.

Whenever I hear people crying about Kobe yelling at people in practice or wondering whether or not LeBron is best friends with his teammates, I just roll my eyes. You know how many off-court conversations I had with the Zen–Master Phil Jackson in my entire time with the Lakers? One.

I think free throws are harder because you have more time to think about it, and every eye is on you. When it’s a trey, you catch and shoot.

There’s more to life than just basketball.

I think Phil Jackson started that feud. It happened many times that after team practice he would say, ‘Kobe said this about Shaq, and Shaq said that about Kobe… ‘ We couldn’t believe how could that happen, because just the day before we saw them together, jumping on one another.

An NBA star is a role player. Your role is to score a lot of points; your role is to get a lot of rebounds.

Pressure can make a diamond. Pressure makes me play better because I don’t want to let my teammates or my fans down, and that makes me play extra hard.

Back when I got in the league, it wasn’t a sexy game. It was more of a ‘beat you down’ game – you know, make sure you were strong.

I don’t worry about being bothered by the media. Either I’m going to talk or not talk.

When I got traded to the Lakers in ’97, Kobe Bryant was just a rookie.

Winning isn’t all that matters.