Top 66 Trevor Ariza Quotes

Whatever is asked of me I try to do.

I’m not a big stats guy.

Superstar NBA players don’t just change positions in their prime. Not eight years into their careers… not when they’ve been consistently at the top of the league in scoring… and especially not when their team lacks another dominant scorer.

I do my best to come in and work hard and let everything else take care of itself.

On the court, I get the opportunity to just open up all my feelings, everything that’s wrong, everything I struggle with, I get to come out here and forget about it and get it out.

My favorite player of all time is Deion Sanders, so football is my first love. When I was little, I focused more on football, definitely.

I’m willing to run through a wall for my teammates, for organizations that I play for. So whatever is asked of me, I try to do.

When you have players that are willing to do anything to win, usually the results are pretty good.

I love L.A.

I don’t cry over the past or worry about spilled milk.

Basketball is a game of mistakes, and we know that we can make mistakes, but things that you can’t do is lack effort.

I would like to play for as long as I feel like I can play at an elite level, however long that is is how long I would like to play.

I don’t play for self-recognition, none of that stuff.

What I do know is I’m going to give absolute 100 percent effort any time I’m on the court.

I’m a West Coast dude, definitely, but I do like the city of D.C. It’s cool. A lot of things to do. It’s just cold.

Everybody wants to start.

Playing basketball is a game that I love. I’ve been doing it since I was a kid. It’s what I always wanted to do.

It’s a business. So sometimes, teams make business decisions and you’ve got to live with that.

I want to play good.

There’s always a switch that turns on at some point where you tell yourself, okay, the thing that I can control is the effort. When you figure that out, everything else just falls into place.

I’m going to compete. That’s what you’re going to get from me – competition. I’ve done throughout my whole career.

I just try to make plays when needed and pick up the loose ends.

That’s my first job on this earth is to make sure that my offspring are as smart as they can be and as well prepared for this world as they can be. So, I take that very seriously.

I mean, to be honest with you, my whole career I’ve guarded players that have outweighed me by 30 pounds. Period, ‘Melo to LeBron.

Wherever I fit in, that’s where I’m going to play.

There’s no crying in basketball.

I’m confident in my abilities to play at any position at any weight, so I’m not worried about bulking up or anything like that.

The most important thing for me is feeling like I’m part of something.

I hate when people score on me.

Bottom line: If I’m open, I’m going to shoot the ball.

The past is not going to get us anywhere. We’ve got to play for the moment.

I play to win, because I think that’s when you get the most praise is when you win.

My experience in Orlando was a good one. I made some good friends.

One minute, you’re 18, 19. The next minute, you’re 33.

I learned that no matter what you do, nothing‘s going to be given to you, and you always have to work for everything you get.

I looked at basketball as something that I love and escape from the real world, and in order to continue to escape the real world, you got to work hard at it.

The person I used to watch growing up was Tony Bland. I just loved the way he played. He was a big guard, and I watched him a lot. He scored, he shared, he did a little bit of everything. I wanted to be a point guard, though it didn’t work out that way.

I mean that’s what a team is about: just coming together and doing the things that are needed to win.

When you’re young and in the NBA, it makes you grow up fast.

That’s when you start messing up, when you put too much pressure on yourself. Just come into the game clear and just try to play hard.

I always imagined myself going up against Reggie Miller, Michael Jordan, guys like that, and I had to make the shot to win the game.

I love my family a lot.

Whatever helps our team win, that’s what I’m going to do.

My mom supports me. She‘s behind what I do.

When the team wins, everybody wins, so I can score two points, one point, get three rebounds, if our team wins, that’s all that matters to me.

The way I do things is I take it one day at a time. Don’t try to put too much pressure or stress on myself figuring out what somebody else is going to do. Just worry about what I got to do.

I work hard, extremely hard worker.

You trust your work. You understand throughout the season everything isn’t going to be perfect, stay confident, continue to take the shots you’ve been taking and whatever happens, happens.

I’m 6’7′ and like to sleep diagonally.

You don’t live in the past. You live in the present and look toward the future.

You have to be a real live dog to come out there and compete every night.

Like I’ve been saying the whole time I’ve been in the NBA: anything the coach asks me to do that I can do, I’m going to try to do. Whether it’s to score the ball or guard the center, I’ll do it.

We went through a whole lot in Washington, from winning 28, 29 games to going to the second round of the playoffs in two years. That was a tough time and a great time as well. Early, like my first year, it was really tough, because to be honest with you, I didn’t want to be there.

I think that the game has gotten faster, so it’s more position-less more so than position, and it’s about fit and how pieces fit together and having teams match up to you more so than matching up to teams.

For me, the main thing is to continue to work, continue to grind on everything and stay focused.

The good thing for me is I have a lot of experience going through NBA seasons.

In order to be a great team you have to be selfless.

I think pressure is a frame of mind.

The doctors told me I had a bone deficiency, so I had to get my vitamin D up. I’ve been drinking a lot more milk. Still don’t like it though.

I’m not worried about who‘s starting and who’s coming off the bench.

Not any particular position, just whatever the coaches ask of me, I try to do.

It took for me to get to the Lakers and for my teammates to help me get through that mental block that I had. Anytime I was open, anytime it even looked like I might be open, they always told me, ‘Shoot the ball. We don’t care if it goes in or if you don’t make it. Just shoot it.’

D.C. has become one of my favorite places in America.

I don’t like ghosts.

I’m just a big kid at heart.

In order to get better, you’ve got to give to your team. If you give to your team, everybody sees it, everybody feels it, and it makes the next person next to you want to give to you.