Grant Hill Quotes (26 Quotes)

I wish I had the answer but I don't. We've got to continue to try to play hard and work through it and try to figure out what we can do to improve that.

Parents, they're strict on you when you're little, and you don't understand why. But as you get older, you understand and you appreciate it.

Dwight, ... he was talking during training camp about his PlayStation 2, I mentioned something to him about Atari, and he had never heard of Atari. He didn't know what that was. So, it's just different generations.

He has an unbelievable track record. It's been a tough few years I'm sure for New York and the fans, but they have the right people in place in terms of Isiah (Thomas) and Coach Brown and they'll get it right. They'll get better during the season and they'll figure it out.

People don't realize the amount of stress you put on your body both physically and mentally from just the wear and tear of a season.

They're as good as any combination in the league -- as good as any combination the past 10 years.

I know the draft and free agency are the hot topics over the summer for fans, but once we get to training camp, none of the players are going to be saying, 'Oh, we'd be so much better if we had drafted this guy or signed that guy,'

They look really good. Give them time to work together and they'll be a good tandem for a long time.

I feel good. It'll be my first-back-to-back I guess that's right. I plan on playing.

We had been to the Final Four a few times. But we weren't thought of at the time like we are now.

Sometimes a move like this, or a series of moves, can give a team new life.

There was pain, there were problems. We're taking every opportunity to let it calm down. Best case, it calms down. If it doesn't, we go to Plan F.

Ask me anything about the lower extremities and I'll tell you whatever you need to know. But as for the abdomen, that's different. It does feel better, so we'll see how it feels (today).

Even with medicine, you can do everything right and something can happen. That's just the nature of it.

When you're doing well, people want to take shots. He's just sending a message 'Look, I'm still fighting. I'm still hungry like I was 20 years ago.' That's what I think.

I've done a lot of basketball drills, not a whole lot of competitive stuff. I have basically been in the gym everyday working on my game, working on the time off that I've had from the game, just getting myself prepared mentally and physically for the season.

I would probably say yes. I don't see getting another surgery. We tried it. It didn't work. I don't see doing another.

He's a good man. It didn't work out. But he definitely brings a wealth of knowledge to (Minnesota's) organization.

That is a very good team. They've only lost one game at home. They can be beat - anyone can be beat - but we played them at the right time. If we had seen them two weeks ago, it might have gotten ugly.

I expect us to be good very good. I expect us to first and foremost be better than we were last year and get back to having this franchise as one of the premier franchises on and off the court, and I think we have the opportunity to do that this upcoming season. I really believe that.

That was the Rucker Park Princeton offense. We've had so much in and out (with injuries) that we haven't run that offense great since the first two games of the preseason. It's like the triangle offense in that you have to really stick with it and engrain it into the system for it to be effective.

They turned the screws when they needed to. They don't make mistakes. They wait for you to make mistakes.

At times it's more frustrating than the ankle. The ankle was more serious and more time consuming. But when the ankle hurt, it hurt when I was playing, when I was walking, when I was laying in the bed and all the time. This is mysterious because it comes and goes. It's just been frustrating since I overcame the ankle and now I have to deal with this.

The most important thing is the ankle feels great. It doesn't look great, but it feels great. I've been able to play four games in five nights and back-to-backs. That feels good.

After all, one year ago at this time, Grant was hobbling around. In fact, he spent the better part of the last four years on crutches. I have every imaginable crutch, ... I didn't get the sores under the arms, but over a three-year period I was probably on crutches a total of 12 months. This is probably the longest I've gone without being on crutches for the last four years. I got off my crutches last in June or July of '03.

It's a big month for us. We're looking forward to it. We're going on the road at the right time.