Quotes About Leadership

A point guard can carry a team - if he has all the right stuff.

It's hard to play basketball without a point guard - it's an important position.

You can play fast but not in a hurry. As a point guard, I can dictate that.

I am a point guard. It's a job that I'm not scared of.

It's hard to be the point guard, especially playing with a young team.

I definitely feel like I'm a really good playmaker, a really smart point guard that can lead his team and win.

You ask what position I play, I say point guard.

It used to be you a needed a true center to win championships, but now the point guard position holds just as much weight.

I feel like I can play point guard for any team in the league and average a double-double.

When you're a point guard, man, if you're not up to par, you're in a lot of trouble.

Once you see the leader of the team, the point guard of the team who has the ball pretty much the whole time in the game directing everybody, I think it just rubs off on everybody.

I grew up as a point guard, and as a point guard you learn how to navigate situations.

You don't want to be the selfish point guard. You want to be the guy that gets everybody open, that makes plays, and see the ball move before it goes in.

Before I got big, I was playing point guard, so I'm kinda like a pass-first person. Some people tell me I should be more selfish, but that's not me.

As a point guard, you don't really have to score. The only time you have to score is when you have to score.

I was just taught, the team goes how the point guard goes.

The point guard is the most important position on the court. They often have to be the best player, not by choice but because that's what the game demands as far as all the thinking you have to do and picking and choosing when to score or pass, things like that.

There's always a good point guard in this league.

I play a certain way and played like that for a while. Maybe you want a point guard to shoot 20 times, I like more to pass the ball and do my job running the team.

I'll try to help everybody. That's what I try to do as a point guard.

I'm not going to be the guy that says, 'I'm the new point guard, look at me, look at me, put me on billboards and sell my jersey.' I'm not going to be him. I'm going to do my job.

Coach Kidd has taught me a lot just from the point guard position.

I think a lot of the time, when things were going wrong, I would get blamed for things because I was the point guard.

Being a point guard in this league, you have to balance out people - the emotions and stuff like that.