Nate Robinson Quotes (31 Quotes)


    In college, the fans cheer the whole game, from start to finish. In the NBA it's really laid back.

    The sky is the limit for Dina. She has tremendous potential and ability and soaks everything in we tell her. You can see she loves track.

    It was a great day. I pretty much let the game come to me. I was just trying to get everybody involved. We just waited on the bench for our numbers to be called. Today was a great day to showcase our talent.

    It was just weird. Once you get the ball and you get in a situation, it's like haywire, everything goes crazy, and everybody's running around. You don't know who to pass it to or what to do. So Coach said just slow down and just make the right play. I tried to get the best look I could at the basket.

    It was a little crazy for the first couple of days, ... I couldn't really talk. I checked in, and in 20 minutes, I was at the dentist. I had to tell the guys, 'My tooth is messed up-- I'll talk to you in a few days.' I got it pulled, and now it's back to normal.


    Today was a great day. I want to win, so I'm going to do whatever it takes to get everyone involved and having fun and getting the crowd involved and just playing hard to help out the team.

    I wanted it. I'm still waiting for that first dunk at the Garden.

    When people look at me, they really don't understand where the hops are coming from.

    You've got to get used to it. He said you need a great point guard to be a great team. I just take that into consideration that he wants me to be great. They don't call me Nate the Great for nothing. I've got to live up to the name and live up to the expectations that he wants. He's hard on me and I love it.

    He played like a veteran. Like he's been in the league 10 years. It's tough dealing with guys that are so free to pick and choose what to do whenever they want.

    I have charisma and a lot of energy and I hope that the crowd can see that. All I can do is hope so (that the crowd will get behind me). If not, then I will have to steal the crowd away from someone else. If that happens, that is what I am going to have to do.

    I apologized to him like 100 times already. I definitely took full responsibility of what I did. Hopefully it's minor because I would hate for me to be the one to hurt his career or anything like that.

    The only one I know that had a vertical like that was University of Georgia receiver Mike Moore.

    This is the first active thing I've been doing since I hurt my knee, ... The coaches made out a big plan for me, with rehab, strength and conditioning. I'll be ready for the first Big East game vs. Virginia Tech on Oct. 4.

    The only other team that has matched that feat is Illinois, whose two stars made animpression on Robinson over the summer. I observed the way Dee and Deron played at the Nike Camp in Indianapolis, ... They share the ball well I mean, they average about 13 points apiece and they could both score 20 -- they do what they have to do to help the team.

    Coach just said, 'Get a hand up,' and I was right there. I just stayed in front and backed him up, and he took a desperation three. But he made a good shot.

    They say sharing is caring, and we care about each other. There's just a lot of good karma going around.


    The whole time from when I was selected for it, I've been watching film of Spud Webb.

    It's a great honor to be in my shoes right now.

    That's the hardest thing because the fans love it. They love to see the way I get fired up. ... I think that Coach kind of gets tied in, or caught between me trying to showboat or trying to have all the attention on me I guess.

    It was a great idea from my teammate Jamal Crawford. He kept telling me to jump over Spud, so we decided to call him and he was more than willing to participate with me. I just thank God for him.

    It seems like a letdown to us because we come out and work so hard, and things aren't going our way or according to plan. It's just something we have to fight through, come in every day knowing we have to win a lot of games to make a playoff run. I believe we can do it.

    I'm pretty far along, but I still got a long way to go. Coach says I have to take it in steps and it's something I'm learning to do every day, just come in and pay attention more and more to details, the little things I can do to make myself better.

    Iverson was telling me to listen to him because he's going to make you better. I just try to picture Allen saying it instead of Coach because then I can relate to it because I know he's been in my same shoes.

    He played like he has been in the league for 10 years.

    He hasn't been beat in the county. Now there is an opportunity for someone to beat him. We'll see how bad he wants it.

    Honestly, Coach is great. He's like a father figure to me because he's so hard on me. Growing up, my dad was always on me. 'You've got to do this, you've got to do that.' But at the end of the day, I love my dad. I love him to death. I'd do anything for my dad. That's how it is with Coach.

    We're like family. We enjoy each other's company off the court. And it doesn't feel crowded on the court. You just have to find who's hot at the right time.

    Every time Coach talks to me he says listen to the message, not how it's said. It's kinda hard to really listen to exactly what he says instead of taking it personally, trying to do everything right for him and it's not good enough. At the same time you can't look at it that way. You've got to look at it like he's trying to help you.

    I am going to go at him (Iverson). I am going to make him play defense. That is what I tried to do tonight.


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