Eddy Curry Quotes (39 Quotes)

I've got bruises and scratches and all kinds of stuff. Sometimes they don't go away. I'm still feeling stuff from last year. That's how it is. When you play so many games, things carry over. Normally, after the season, it takes three or four weeks before you're back to feeling normal.

Every time I got the ball I tried to make something happen.

I know I have to learn how to turn it on and off. I have to learn to be a totally different player on the court than I am off the court. That's kind of what I'm struggling with right now, just trying to find that switch so I can turn it on and off.

It's definitely frustrating, but it's going to make me better in the long run. Everybody's coming at me from all different angles. But everybody wants me to do well, and that's the main thing.

There's one guy who isn't sure, ... I can live with that because of what the other doctors say.

Sometimes they will look away from me. When I do get the ball, I try to make something happen so they don't have an excuse not to throw me the ball.

We definitely didn't feel the season was over, ... We realized it was only 9 games of an 82-game season. It was definitely far from over.

We weren't really making a lot of shots. They weren't really making a lot of shots. I can imagine how it was for the fans, but for us to be the team that was on top, it was a great night for us.

There definitely is some kind of relief, but my journey is not over, ... I'm going to have even more expectations to live up to the trade and Isiah's trust in me to come here and be a good basketball player.

For the record, I am not going anywhere ... I'm very happy in the Cavaliers' uniform and I'm going to be wearing this uniform for a long time, OK

It's only been two games. We've been through ups and downs with every player over minutes. That's just a natural thing on any team. We still have good chemistry and a good group. We just need to win a couple of games.

people can start looking at me as a basketball player and not a patient.

I'm definitely going to love my time here in New York, ... We've got a great team. We have a great coach. Any time you have people like that pushing you to be better, it's hard for you to do otherwise.

I'm ready. It was a little bit of a scare and a rocky summer, but the time to take stuff for granted is over. There's some relief but the journey's not over. I've got to live up to the trade and the expectations.

That's definitely my goal for next year, to average a double-double. I know if I can go out there and get a double-double every game, more than likely we're going to win. That's what I'm going to try to do.

For the most part we weren't even in some of the games we lost.

Unfortunately, the Bulls' negative suspicions about my health and the insurance the refusal by the league's insurance company to indemnify his heart definitely scared away some teams from making substantial offers. But I'm not really all that mad with the salary I'm getting now because after four years I can go in and get the money I should have gotten in the first place.

I don't know where it's written that he's going to get big money. Let's wait and see what happens. You're always nervous when you give any athlete big money and a lot of years. There isn't a good track record in sports for players with long-term contracts, so you're always nervous. But sometimes you're forced to do it because of market conditions.

Bulls center Eddy Curry said Sunday he plans to make a free-agent visit to Atlanta but is not sure when he'll make the trip. It's part of the whole process, I think, ... At this point, I can't see myself playing for any team but Chicago. But it's pretty much out of my hands.

And hopefully, it'll be that way forever, because I don't want to be a part of any big controversy anymore. I was sick of talking about it. I just want to play basketball.

I understand the boos. It was one of the toughest things I had to do leaving here. I am also very excited about where I am now.

Any time a coach addresses a team after a loss like this, it's disappointing. We've got to leave the coaching to them and the effort is up to us. The bad part is, we've heard this before.

We've got to be able to play well the whole game. We can't go up 25 on a team and let them get back in. We've got to try to be consistent the whole game. I mean the win was great, but we could have very easily let it go the other way at the end of the game.

I hope so. I don't really know what happened with the sit-down, but I hope it can be resolved because both of them are great guys. They're both competitors, and I just think somewhere along the line there was a loss of communication, and it just didn't turn out the right way.

I definitely didn't imagine playing there in another uniform, but things happen for a reason and we're going there tomorrow and try to get a win. I'm starting to get a little nervous as we come closer to tomorrow's game, but I'll be OK.

Sometimes it's hard to tell, but I feel like I'm definitely getting better. I'm learning more than I've ever learned. Now it's just a matter of time before I can incorporate that into what I'm doing on the court.

Anytime you have a coach address the team after a loss, you feel disappointed it had to get to this point. That bad part is we've heard this before.

I felt pretty good out there. It was a good effort by our guys and we will take the win. We really want to protect our home court. We're a pretty good team on the road and it is important for us to protect our court.

I definitely see that out here in his coaching, ... He really stresses perfection out there for the bigs and for his point guards. Totally different style from what coach Skiles did. It's two different coaches, so I'm just trying to get used to everything and just take it all in.

I'm more worried about breaking a finger. I'm not worried about my heart.

I think myself and this team are definitely in store for a great season. We're ready to step up and claim that role of being one of the best teams in the East. That's pretty close to a guarantee. I don't make guarantees, but if I wanted to bet, I'd bet we'd make the playoffs this year.

I just wasn't able to get into rhythm (because of early fouls). I had a lot on my mind. (The mild booing) wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. I thought it would be all boos. I'm just glad (fans) cheered when I got up (after being hurt in the second half in a collision with Ben Gordon). If they had booed then I probably would have started crying.

That's the bad part we've heard that before. This isn't the first time he's talked to us about it.

As long as I'm able to walk, and run up and down the court, I'm going to definitely try to give it all I got. I'll be 100 percent real soon.

I had so many doctors look at everything about my heart to make sure it was 100 ready to come out here on the court, ... Had we just blown this off and I played and this happened (Collier's death), it could have been more back and forth about going on. I feel the doctors did a good job of evaluating my situation.

There was a lot of nervousness before the game, a lot of buildup, but overall I felt good.

When we finished regulation, the emotions were high. But then we came unglued. It was a lot of buildup to this point. I wanted to get this first game over with and now I'm looking forward to playing my first in the Madison Square Garden.

I just want to play and do think at times I'm on a shorter leash. Sometimes I do think about playing elsewhere, but that's mostly when I'm frustrated and when stuff happens to my minutes and nobody has an explanation for it.

I certainly didn't tell nobody anything about what the doctors were doing and what they were finding. I didn't even know what they were finding. All I knew is that I was healthy and I was waiting and hoping that the truth would eventually come out like it's finally doing.