Words matter. These are the best John Collins Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Happy to be a Hawk. Shows a lot of promise that the organization is willing to take the time to pick me.
I got to have that S on my chest. Superman.
I really haven’t been trying to force or shoot outside of my comfort zone.
I didn’t get a chance to shoot any threes at all in the offense we ran at Wake.
Water is the most powerful thing in the world. Just being in it, around it, it gives me some sort of peace. Watching it, looking at it, I love it.
Not every coach uses the same terminology.
I’m not saying I’ll be the next Tim Duncan. But it was about time for Wake Forest to produce another super productive big man.
It’s in the Hawks’ DNA to win one, so I want to be a part of the Hawks’ DNA and the Hawks’ lineage of guys who have won a Slam Dunk Championship.
Not being in the dunk contest isn’t going to stop me from dunking.
For me, it’s never really been a road block for me to shoot, it’s just a matter of me continuing to shoot and shooting with confidence.
I have a very blessed life. I want to be clear about that.
Size is just something you can’t teach, you know what I mean? I can’t be bigger than Joel Embiid or Steven Adams or Aron Baynes. It’s almost near impossible.
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I feel like every NBA player puts their life into this game, and for it to be cut short – it hurts, especially when you have so much unfinished business that you feel like you needed to handle.
For me, the biggest thing is to adjust from college to a professional setting.
I’m having to deal with the LeBrons, Paul Georges, Gianniss, KDs, the 6ft 8in to 6ft 11in guys who can do everything at my height, shoot, play make, block shots, defend. They set the precedent I’ve got to uphold. There’s no excuse for me. That’s my goal, to be at their level.
I just felt like for everybody watching, my game is continuing to develop, continuing to grow. I just hope that’s what people see.
I just feel like with my size, I wasn’t blessed with extra long arms, so I feel like with me not being on the taller side and shorter side when it comes to arm length, I feel like I need to be as versatile as I can.
I hate missing dunks.
Everyone has a niche of dunks that they are experts at.
I’m comfortable being around the NBA lifestyle, the travel, the hotels, the pregame, everything.
It’s frustrating and difficult to go out there every night as an underdog, knowing you’re probably going to lose, knowing you still have to play hard to prove yourself to your teammates, coaches and higher-ups that you’re still valuable.
It’s crazy when you go back and look at it: playing 26 minutes a game, averaging 19 points and nine rebounds. That was a result of a lot of hard work.
I’ve seen some of those comments and they hurt me a little bit, saying ‘This guy’s a cheater.’ And I feel like if you know me, you know my character, and just my person, you know that’s not what I would do, not what I would ever do.
You sort of have that meditation, that happy place I go to in my brain. The happy place may be an island or something where I’m on the beach. Something like that where I can sort of at least try to escape and try to just release my mind into that place that I want to be in, into my relaxing place.
I’m used to structure, and the relationship I have with my mom, from a military standpoint, is all about structure. There’s a certain way of doing things. My mom knows how to focus on different situations. What I learned from her helps me out every night I play.
I always end up saying, whether it being my rookie year, not playing as many games as I should have with the new coaching and whatnot, and then my injury and my suspension, I feel like every year, it’s always been something, you know what I mean?
I’m all in. I’m true to Atlanta.
Coming from a player who has already been on two rebuilding teams and now in my third year on a rebuilding team, it’s like, what more can I say of how tired I am?
I’m a huge dunker.
