Steve Nash Quotes (130 Quotes)

Boris is a terrific passer. I pass to him and he passes to the shooter and it's a good combination. I like it.

We certainly didn't play very well. We look at that as a positive. We didn't play well and we found a way to win, and we've got a lot of improvement to make.

I feel like the Seattle Seahawks. It's remarkable. There's like five games this year where we've not gotten a call in the last 30 seconds. After awhile, you realize you don't get those games back, and it's tough to take.

I've always been a reluctant scorer. It's not the strangest thing in the world for me, but obviously, when you're getting 20 a game, it hurts your team. I take full responsibility for hurting us tonight. I give a lot of credit to Jason (Kidd) for his defense.

Anytime people step up at the end of games to close teams out, that's the sign of a good team. We had a couple of guys who made some big plays and made us a winner tonight.

The fans in Dallas were hard on me my first year, but after having a great year last year they are now supporting me. It feels great to have my hard work pay off, especially when the fans made it hard for me.

It's got to be up there. There's a bunch of other guys who aren't here that are having terrific careers, played in All-Star games, gotten max contracts. It's a very deep and talented class.

People have always doubted whether I was good enough to play this game at this level. I thought I was, and I thought I could be. What other people thought was really always irrelevant to me.

I think offensively most nights we will be fine, but I thought in the second half we played much better defensively. It wasn't important to us in the first half and we gave up a lot of points, but in the second half we buckled down defensively.

I talked to him before that, too, and his heart wasn't into coming back,

You feel like if he's taking all those shots, the other guys aren't really scoring. We don't feel like if he has a huge night, that we can't win, that's for sure.

We've been playing ugly. Without all of our bodies, we've been kicking it all over the shop, but fortunately we've been able to make the big buckets and rely on our defense for once.

What happened in the past is just that, the past. Champion or not.

I don't think we can blame it on anything but lack of intensity. I thought we were pretty passive to start the game and never got any sort of determination going against a team that has been playing well.

You're excited with the steps they've taken and you're frustrated that some have taken so long. Now, we're facing a new crisis in Africa. It never ends for those people and it's one we've turned our backs on for a long, long time.

It's out of our control, so we've got to go out and make the most of what we have and not worry about the piece we're missing. We'll try to build our team and hopefully be a better team when he returns.

It's pretty common for us to give up big leads. But I'm just looking at the big picture, which is we got another win.

Well, you only get an assist if your teammates make the shots. My teammates made a lot of shots, and they deserve part of that record.

I think the later it goes, the more we should stick to this team. For a guy to not really play all that time and then get thrown into the playoffs You are asking a lot of a young man.

My father was a soccer player. All my friends played basketball though, so I stuck with basketball.

We didn't play well and we found a way to win. We know we have a lot of improvement to make.

He's been good all year, but particularly tonight. He's playing with guys who are unselfish and move the ball, so he's able to highlight what he can do.

You have to look at the personnel and realize maybe it's not a great fit. If it is going to be a fit, it takes time. Guys have been playing a certain style for a long time. To come to our team and expect them to run their butts off every single play is breaking a lot of habits.

You hear about poor Houston and poor Denver and poor this team and that, but we lose one of the top five players in the game and a weapon like (Barbosa) and it's like an afterthought. Yeah, we should be even better, but we know we're going to get better, and that's a good feeling.

We were excited to win, staying undefeated is just the icing.

Were proud we won 54 games and won our division. But another part of you thinks we should have won 60 games.

We just realized it's time, and we can't play like that anymore. We learned a little bit of a lesson in Sacramento that if we play a little tough, good things will happen.

If my career has somehow inspired or gained interest in kids across the country, that would be unbelievable to have that sort of impact.

I have definitely gone through my ups and downs and faced my adversity and my nay-sayers, but managed to do all right. It is a pretty classic tale.

Growing up in a soccer family I learned some good moves, but I spend a lot of time in practice working on my shots-from free throws to off-balance shots. The only way a shooter can perfect their shots is through constant practice.

He has a great demeanor, a great personality. He's bright. He's creative. He's competitive. He holds us accountable. He's fair and he makes it fun for us. He deserves all the praise that he's getting and more.

Things aren't going to go well every night. But if you have the right attitude and you're active and you play with a lot of heart and play together, you make up for a lot.

We are not a very good team without the running game. After losing the last two games, we did not want to err on the side of caution. We were determined to come out here tonight and run.

We weren't really sharp tonight, but I thought we were tough enough to get through it and to put in a winning performance.

For many reasons we missed Raja tonight. But we were up 17 in the third (quarter), so you can't make too many excuses. We didn't play well. We had the game in our control, we gave it up, and we couldn't get it back.

He's pretty, on the outside, cool. I think that counts for a lot, even if inside it's not as much. It's important to give the impression for you and the opposition. He does a terrific job of being pretty poker-faced.

I think it's day-to-day. I'm not very experienced at ankle sprains. I think we'll know a lot more tomorrow. I don't think it's horrible.

Anytime you sit back and think about just winning it once, it's mind-boggling -- the company and what it means in the history of the game. To win it twice obviously just compounds that. It's just an incredible honor. I think it's a tribute to what this game allows people to do if they work hard.

I was bummed, but I'm happy for him, ... I told him, 'I just want you to go where you're happy. Obviously, I want you to be here.' I thought he was pretty close to coming.

We got a lot of great character guys and some great players that bring a lot of experience and toughness, ... Those things go a long way. If you're going to lose Joe Johnson, you can only make so much happen. We did about as well as we could do, minus the Finley deal. We're ready to make it work. I'm really excited. I'm happy with the moves we made.

When I saw that ball coming from Boris, I knew I was going to get a great look. I wasn't going to pass it up, pull it out and see what we got later. Sometimes you have to gamble, and I would have paid the consequences happily had I missed because I think that was the shot to take.

Shawn has been playing awesome right now. It was disappointing that the ball didn't bounce his way and he didn't get that record. But nonetheless it has been an incredible stretch of games and it has been awesome just watching him play and to play with him.

Obviously, I'm going to miss Joe a lot. He wanted to try something else. What can you say You wish him the best.

I am thrilled to be an Olympian, and I think that although we will be underdogs we can beat many teams and will be a surprise in Sydney.

You replay and you rethink. The mistakes really hurt.

But you can't blame it on the referees. We had our opportunities. It just wasn't meant to be. So many things went against us in succession, it's just crazy. We just have to chalk it up that it wasn't our night, and one is going to come our way if we keep battling.

LB hit those two huge 3s and Boris was a rebounding machine. I think the Hornets also got kind of cold from the floor and we kind of hit our stride at the same time.

It was a tough game for us, considering that it was our fourth game in five nights. We scrapped, but we just struggled offensively and couldn't make any shots. We missed a lot of shots that we can make, but they also played well.

It would be nice to score 130 points every night. We have to find a way to make up for his (Thomas) absence with other activity.

My ideal day would be to get a good work out in, listen to music, talk to my family and friends on the phone, read and go to a good movie.