“When there is talk about the best point guards, sometimes they dont talk about me. But that is not my main motivation. They can talk about Jason Kidd, Steve Nash, Deron Williams, and Chris Paul. I still have the most rings.”
Tony Parker
PinI love being under pressure. Even the pressure put on me by the media. That is how you outdo yourself.PinIt’s home. I arrived here 19 years old and they embraced me. They treated me like their son, and it’s always gonna be home. It is family.PinWatching tape is key. I basically watch every game. It’s the only way to break down your opponents.PinThe day when I am satisfied with what I have, will be the day I retire from the sport.PinWe have a pretty tough schedule coming up. We have to stay strong mentally and must focus on getting better.PinI still have a lot of room for improvement. I need to become a more skilled player.PinYou have to know how to keep things in perspective.PinWell, actually, I’m a bisexual lesbian in a man’s body… but it’s more complicated than that.PinIt hurts. Frankly, it hurts terribly. I have just lived one of the biggest loss of my career. It will be difficult to digest that moment. It is extremely hard to accept. I am disappointed.
9 Tony Parker Quotes on Playing Basketball (NBA)
“Every night you have different match-ups, and you have 82 games, so physically you are going to get tired. You have to be ready mentally to bring your energy and bring the juice every night.”
Tony Parker
PinPlaying in the playoffs is the best basketball in the world, and if you can learn under that pressure, succeed under that pressure, it gives you more confidence the next year.PinYou’re going to see ups and downs your whole career.PinYou never know, the way technology is going, we might all use the games for scouting by the time I retire.
“If Tim Duncan had ‘Knicks’ on his jersey, he’d be a god. He’d be more than Patrick Ewing. With four championships and two MVPs, I think people realize he’s one of the best ever, but if he played in New York, he’d be way more famous.”
Tony Parker
PinI’m impressed with how the NBA, as a whole, is dressing so well. Guys are being very creative and having fun with it.PinWhen I was small, playing NBA Live, that’s how I knew everyone in the NBA. That’s how I learned about the players.PinBalling is balling; it is all just basketball for me and I’m used to playing both games, so it really does not matter if it is international style, American style; it does not matter at all for me.
“When Boston and Orlando told me they were going to pick me at 21 and 22, I figured I don’t need to do a workout for a second-round team. Boston and Orlando never drafted me because they said I was too skinny and no European point guard will make it in the League.”
Tony Parker
6 Tony Parker Quotes on Success and Winning
PinI am, first of all, a basketball player. I’ve done this for so very long… For me, it’s been essential to be successful on the court.PinWhat drives me is winning championships.PinWhen you win 20 games in a row and then lose four, people ask you, ‘What happened?’… That’s the beauty of sports.PinExperience is everything. It means so much because it enabled me to learn the game even faster.PinI want to follow in my father’s footsteps, but do it better.PinI want to become the first European floor leader to succeed in the NBA. I want to be the standard-bearer and prove we can succeed here.
6 Inspirational Tony Parker Quotes About Life
PinMy mom was a model, and her laid-back but put-together sensibility really rubbed off on me.PinMy focus is on comfort, so I tend to keep it simple and casual – both during and after the basketball season.PinGetting up at three in the morning to watch Michael Jordan, I never dreamed one day I would be kissing that trophy.PinWhen I first came in the league, a lot of people were surprised by my knowledge about the history of the game.PinFor me, speed isn’t anything I ever practiced. It’s all in the genes. Plus, my mom gave me a lot of vitamins when I was small.PinIn France, if you talk to little boys, they know all of the NBA players and not one single Pro A player.
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