Avery Bradley Quotes

Football is football and talent is talent. But the mindset of your team makes all the difference.

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.

I know the game well. I'm a student of basketball; I know what it takes to win.

When I'm on the field, I'm locked in, focused on my job. I try to have a positive play and try to get points on the board.

You need talent and good coaching to be successful in the NBA.

I think that's kind of the common theme when you talk about any good team. Not only do you have the talent and the type of players that allow you to win that many games, but you have to win the ugly ones.

I think competing gets overlooked sometimes. The competitiveness that you bring to a game and an at-bat, it can go a long way. It really can.

When I think of the most valuable coach, I definitely think of a coach like Geno Auriemma, and the things I learned from him that stick out in my mind are his passion for the game, competing at all the little things and doing it at a high level.

You take it one game at a time because it's the most important game of the season.

All the top guys are complete players, and if I'm not, I won't be there.

I have spoken with many former athletes, and they tell me the best time they had was in sports. I listen to them and use their experience in my career.

I have played on many teams throughout my career, and I know when a team has the tools, and the right positive attitude towards winning.

When I'm out on the football field, I have so much confidence in what I'm doing.

The young athlete who aspires to greatness, generally speaking, learns a number of things from several different coaches. The first one taught him the fundamentals; the second one instilled discipline in him and taught him more of the techniques that must be mastered to excel.

If you got anything to you at all as an athlete and a competitor, you don't care what the circumstances are. You still got competition.

I think any football is a guy that is able to one, be able to be humble and hungry off the field, but at the same time on the football field understand what they have to get done and be a little bit ferocious.

We talked about some of our experiences, focusing, hanging together down the stretch, important games. It's not necessarily who has the most talent but what team sticks together and executes their fundamentals the best.

I don't care if it's a preseason game or not. You want to win.

I've been in basketball a long time, and nobody is more of a competitor than I am.

How you play the game is for college ball. When you're playing for money, winning is the only thing that matters.

Obviously, you always want to win, but you want to win by skiing a race that you're proud of and you feel like you really challenged yourself and left it all out there.

A coach once told me there are four factors that determine a players' performance: his tactical awareness, his physical condition, his technical ability and his mental strength.

In football, the result is an impostor. You can do things really, really well but not win. There's something greater than the result, more lasting - a legacy.

Look at guys like Larry Bird and George Brett and John McEnroe; that's what they did in their careers. They all wanted to be the guy under the microscope late in the game or late in the match. So you just take on that know-how that that's part of your responsibility, and you learn that's what makes it exciting. That's what makes it fun!

I'm a quiet guy, but on the pitch, it's different. You have to do everything you can to win and help your teammates.