Top 45 Joe Harris Quotes

They have great restaurants, good nightlife. Everything is here in Brooklyn that you can possibly want.

Shooting‘s contagious: Guys start seeing the ball go in and everybody starts to feel good.

The conditioning aspect of things is really important, obviously in basketball, and then specifically for players like me.

Yeah, I had a good relationship with Coach Blatt. I enjoyed playing for him. But the NBA is, first and foremost, a business, and as much as you may have liked the situation you were at, sometimes it just doesn’t work out your way.

Some games you’re going to be able to get rolling, you’re going to get in a good rhythm, you’re going to be able to get open looks. Other games, sometimes the rhythm’s not there and you’ve got to get off it a little bit.

I’ve been No. 12 my entire career. My cousin Nikki Haerling was a good basketball player, she wore No. 12 in high school and college, and my dad, he was No. 12 as well. I actually just started wearing it when I got to high school my freshman year.

The NBA is a difficult thing because the head coaches, they definitely have one of the more difficult jobs and one of the jobs with, I guess, little amount of security as possible. There’s so much turnover all the time.

I just love basketball.

I think you go across this league and you talk to every coach and every player, and dealing with a young, up-and-coming team is much different than coaching superstar players, and everybody kind of realizes that it’s a much different dynamic.

Obviously, you hope to make shots. But you can’t put too much pressure on yourself to make it, because whether or not they go in, you’re creating space everybody else.

Whenever you play with better competition or play against better players, it raises your level of play on both ends of the court.

You can play basketball – if you’re lucky – for about 10 years. So, you’re going to have to have something to fall back on.

I’m one of the best shooters in the League.

Everybody has a different path to making it in this league. I was fortunate to get an opportunity here in Brooklyn.

I feel like I play with good poise and I know when to take my shot – and when I do, I have a lot of confidence.

You’re gonna have pretty bad defeats. But you’ve gotta be able to respond and come back in and compete the next night.

Every time you play against somebody like Giannis, you have to be really locked into the game plan.

Every step of way, going from a small town to Charlottesville and playing in the ACC – that whole experience is a difficult adjustment. In all of that, you really grow as a person and as a basketball player.

To actually play a game, where you are in the World Cup, there is significance to it, the point differential matters, all these things kind of add up.

The shots, all that stuff, kind of comes and goes. You’re not going to be hitting every single game. You wish that you could. But there’s a lot of other areas to impact the game where I focus more on.

When you’re going through a game and you miss your first couple, you definitely put a little bit of added pressure on yourself. And there is that sense of frustration. You got to block it out and realize that the whole goal of what I’m trying to do is just get open shots.

I think I’ve gotten more comfortable and more confident on the defensive end. I’ve just been able to anticipate things a little bit better instead of reacting to how guys play offensively.

I’ve grown up with the same people my whole life. I’ve had the same classmates from elementary all the way through graduating.

When you have guards that are versatile, it just makes it a lot easier in terms of who you put on the court.

None of us are perfect all the time.

There have been lots of times in my career where you go four or five games and feel like you can’t hit anything. And you also have the exact opposite.

Obviously any time you play home in front of your own fans, you definitely get a distinct advantage that way.

If I ever got into trouble with my sisters or was slacking off, it was always my punishment that I couldn’t go to a practice or a game. That was the worst thing in the world.

I’ve kind of given up trying to evaluate college guys, especially guys from Virginia, just because of my bias.

I know what my game is and what I do well and I’m just going to keep trying to I,prove and make sure I’m consistent as possible in those areas.

My parents have always told me it’s better to write your goals out because then you can look at them every day. You’re constantly reminded.

Coming into my rookie year, I could kind of eat whatever I wanted – you’re really not too concerned about it. But you don’t realize that a pound here and there is really not a good thing. It’s just basic physics: it’s harder to move faster and jump higher when you weigh more.

I grew up in the Northwest, so I was always a really big Sonics fan. I loved Gary Payton, Shawn Kemp, a lot of those players who were really good through the ’90s.

You don’t look through the NBA schedule and say, ‘this is going to be an easy night.’

Some games you’re gonna have seven shots, some games you’re gonna have 15, it just ebbs and flows with the game.

Obviously my role is shooter, trying to take my numbers to another level from that perspective.

There’s only so much you can do as far as individual skill work and conditioning on a bike. But you can’t simulate playing in an actual game. And it can’t satisfy the competitive itch you feel as a player.

Cleveland, although I didn’t play a lot I really learned a ton in my year and a half of being there. I was really fortunate to be around some of the game’s best players.

You never want to see anybody get hurt… but if you’ve ever played basketball before you’ve probably sprained your ankle so that stuff happens. It’s part of the game.

Even over the course of the NBA’s schedule, you’re gonna have games where you’re gonna take your lumps.

The way I play – I’m the guy moving, coming off screens, getting up and down the floor. I should be one of the better-conditioned athletes out there.

My grandparents owned an apple orchard when I was growing up – a lot of apples, cherries… now, actually, a lot of grapes, too, to be honest.

Obviously playing on a team like the Cavs in 2014, they were championship contenders, not allowing a ton of young guys to come in and play through mistakes. If you weren’t helping the team have success you weren’t really afforded a lot of different opportunities.

I come from a town in Washington state that might not be too familiar to Clevelanders called Chelan. It’s really beautiful. It’s about two-and-a-half hours east of Seattle and two-and-a-half hours west of Spokane. It’s right in the middle of the state.

Some rookies build bad habits and it’s not until year three, four, five that they get to be part of a winning-type organization and culture.