Individual Stats Quotes

We're out there pitching for wins, not for stat lines.

If I have 38 touches and we win the game, that's enough. If I have 38 touches and we lose, then I didn't get enough.

I can't go out there and be gassed and trying to go out there and make a play just for individual stats. Got to do the best thing for the team, which is to put myself out there when it's most productive for us.

You may score 50 points and grab 40 rebounds and have 30 assists, but if I don't make the free throws at the end of the game, and we lose, does that make you not a champion?

The most important thing regardless of my stats or anybody else's stats is the win-loss record. In the locker room people are always telling me, you're doing this and that. I don't really pay that much attention so long as we have a 'W' in that column; that's the kind of thing that makes me really happy. It blows all stats out of the water.

It bothers me that the average fan, the average sportswriter for that matter, pays so much attention to what's in a box score. A box score does not properly represent the most important thing - team play. It shows some guy scoring 27 points, but it doesn't show that my 27-point man let his guy score 30.

I can have three touchdowns and 200 yards, but if we lose the game, what's it all for?

I don't care if I go 2 for 40. If we win, it doesn't matter.

If we can win games, it doesn't matter who is scoring.

The personal stats are good, but the collective is better.

I gotta win games. Because if we lose games, and I score a lot, they going to say I'm scorin' too much.

I always wanted to score goals, but sometimes I've scored and been terrible and other times I felt I played well and didn't score. I looked at the statsheet the season where I scored 27 goals and I had one assist and was frustrated.