Larry Hughes Quotes (41 Quotes)

This is a long series, and there will be a time when you have to go into someone's gym and win a game.

We heard pretty much right after the accident about what had happened. He is the kind of guy who is so incredibly exciting to watch race. He just has such a wonderful personality and is the kind of person who always wants to help others and give back to people.

Not a lot of guys in their career win 50 games. It's a new team and a new staff from top to bottom. To come in and put up 50 wins in a season I think that's a great confidence booster for the time that everyone is here.

Those guys are upset that they lost Game 1, but they're not too concerned. I was in that situation, and it's never over until that team wins that fourth game. What we did in Game 1 doesn't mean anything unless we come out and take care of business in Game 2.

This is an opportunity that I couldn't pass up, ... Coming from the situation I was in, I just felt like this is better for me.

That was my goal -- to stay on top of him, ... make it tough for him and really not let him get off. I did my job the best I could.

The first thing we have to realize is, they're a perimeter team. We have to understand their guards are going to do the majority of the work. We have to take those options away.

It will be good for us. We're ready. We know what's at hand. We aren't planning on walking to the playoffs because we have the fourth spot.

We watch football, play video games, shoot the breeze, joke one another. It's just like hanging with your boys at home. It's different, but it'll keep us together.

Whether you win by 30 or lose by two you just have to move on. What we did in Game 1 really doesn't mean anything if we come out and don't take care of what we are supposed to take care of in Game 2. That's pretty much the nature of it.

There's not really any limitations. I just need to make sure I'm warmed up. My bone is healed. My tissues are healed. I'm icing after every workout.

The Wizards said all season that they had every intention of signing Hughes this summer. After the Wizards were swept in the second round of the playoffs by Miami, Hughes said he wanted to return to Washington, where has spent the past three seasons, but

Expectations were high because of his size and speed. A lot of people wanted him to do things he's not capable of. There are a lot of tall guys that can't play basketball.

It was just so wonderful to hear his voice. He just told everyone how much they meant to him and how much this sport meant to him.

Many of us feel basically that this was a waste of time and effort in this particular venue.

If this budget goes through as it stands now, it would hold hospitals and nursing solely responsible for everything that has gone wrong in the system, and I would suggest that might not be fair.

We are just struggling scoring runs. We are just not getting whole lot of hits. That happens sometimes. You just hope it doesn't happen to long.

Hughes's timing could not have been better. Entering his prime at age 26, he also entered a free agent market in which shooting guards were the most coveted commodity. Some people probably wish my deal was up last year, ... I kind of raised the stakes a little bit.

No hard feelings, I'm thankful for what they did for me. I think it will be an okay reception, I think they know I had to handle my business. I'm sure some fans will be disappointed that I left and may show it in a negative way.

We weren't executing the way we planned, and it showed. We lost the game in the third quarter no matter what calls were made and what things happened before or after that.

That's a tough situation going against him and not have any cushion. Being in foul trouble, you're not able to use your hands or get too close. He was able to gain an advantage, and that's all he needed.

Cleveland, I felt, had an opportunity to take it to the next level. I feel like coming to Cleveland from Washington, Cleveland's basically in the same place Washington is. That really was the deciding factor. I didn't want to go to an organization that was trying to hold things together to just win basketball games. Here, we're putting pieces together so we can advance to the playoffs.

I am very disappointed that this happened, but I have full confidence that my teammates will play well while I'm out, ... I look forward to getting back as soon as possible.

While it may not have won best picture, it made more money than the other nominees.

I'm happy that she's going to be included in this activity. She's a high school student, and athletics is part of her education. They were denying her the opportunity.

It felt good just to be out there and get back in the swing of things. The team is winning and playing basketball, so it is definitely a good time right now.

I was just dealing with it, playing through it, but I knew something was wrong. This was the best time to do it. If it was later in the year, I would've kept playing.

We have a lot of history. Playing alongside him, we know each other's tendencies.

It hurt. That initial sting and me having the history of it you have to make sure everything is good.

I flew out to D.C. to see the guy who did my other surgery (on his thumb last year). It was in my best interest to have it done now. They said if there was a month or maybe two months left in the season, I'd be fine.

I'm real comfortable running the point. I like to move around. He'll definitely get space and open looks (when they are out on the floor together) because it puts pressure on the defense. He's one of the best shooters in the league.

It was going pretty good until the other night when he had 17 free throws. That's tough to contain a guy who is already potent on the other end. I have to continue to force him into our help, get a hand up on his jump shot and sometimes make him play a little defense on the other end.

An alternative would be to have a longer teacher work day once a week to accommodate training and communications needs, ... The difference is that teachers would adjust schedules once a week, not students and families. As a result, far fewer are impacted.

We've been waiting. We're close and we're in line, hopefully, to get a team. An NBA team could play in the Edward Jones Dome until a new arena is built. St. Louis supports baseball and hockey, and there's no reason why they wouldn't support an NBA team.

Every season I want to play 82 games. That's my goal, and obviously that's not going to happen this year. I have to deal with it. I have to make the best from it.

I play defense. That's what I do, and I like doing it. That's tough when you don't get the opportunity to do what you like to do that's anticipate, beat guys to the spot, get your hands in there, play clean basketball, play good defense.

That's a good team that came into our building. We think we're supposed to win.

I don't think anybody can stop him. He can get his shot off any time. You have to make him work on defense and make him work on offense. You have to make him take a lot of shots.

We couldn't even break huddle, ... We couldn't even discuss practice tomorrow or we had a good game or nothing. He was just talking about winning on TNT, winning on national TV.

I realize that the writers and broadcasters are just trying to do their job with the questions they ask. They are just doing their job. I just try to cooperate at all times because that's part of my job also.

He's doing better. They're still running tests to determine if the heart is rejecting. It's not good, but it's not as bad as it has been in past times that it's happened. It'll be probably a couple months before they get it where they want it to be.