Top 44 Marc Gasol Quotes

I didn’t care about the draft. I didn’t want to do the workouts – they put you in two-on-two full-court drills with guards. That’s not going to help me.

Pau has a game that’s impossible to imitate. He’s so finesse and so skilled, it’s impossible to imitate. Honestly, I’m a big fan of the game. I’ve never seen a player his size who has so many moves, so many counters and it’s impossible. His length, his size, his skills – I mean, you can’t teach that.

When you grow tomatoes, you’re going to get a lot of tomatoes. So you want to learn how to preserve.

Going through processes as a team and getting better each and every night, that’s what you do it for – to eventually win games as a group.

We gotta educate the kids. You’ve got to do your job as a citizen, but the same time, you have to also give the tools to the society to learn and create their habits so it’s a seamless transition to become a better society.

I honestly don’t see anything that extraordinary about my game.

Being young and dumb, honestly, you pick up some bad habits.

Once you work for your team-mates and help each other – thinking about them before you think about yourself – it always works out.

A homegrown tomato, you’re never going to taste anything like it. There is nothing close to it, the sweetness. And strawberries: The ones you get in the store are so hard; but you get a homegrown strawberry, it just melts, I’m telling you.

Just because it says ‘zero calories’ or ‘sugar free’ or ‘fat free’ doesn’t mean it actually is good for you. It’s a way to get you. Just make sure that you know. We think that we can put stuff in our body. Just know how it affects you.

I don’t read the papers. I don’t want to read what the press says.

I still run into a lot of people from Memphis, all around the NBA. I feel like they’re with me every game. I feel their love, their support, their pushing. I know they still cheer for me. They let me know they cheer for me. And there’s a part of them with me in every game I play.

The older you get the more you realize that life is more than just basketball. Your vision of the world gets much wider, and you’re not the centre of it no more. You understand that you’re a moving part and that you have other responsibilities.

You have pretty much the same fan base in Memphis, year over year the same group. We watched teenagers in the stands become parents. You’d see little kids become young men and women. Those relationships mean much more than just basketball.

Athletes are moved – human beings are moved – by challenges.

I make gazpacho with a little bit of bread, so it’s thicker, and I like it to be more tomato- and green pepper-based. Everyone has their own preferences, of course. But I think my gazpacho is the best.

There have been few players that haven’t been traded over the years in the NBA.

People say, ‘Well, you’re not Pau’s little brother anymore.’ I’m always going to be Pau’s younger brother and Adria’s older brother.

Obviously, for my line of work, I cannot eat barbecue that often. It takes a little bit to digest and it’s not the healthiest thing to eat.

I could always shoot and pass.

Everybody has goals, dreams, whatever you want to call it. But are you willing to pay? You have to be honest with yourself: What do I need to do every day to reach those goals and achieve the level that I want, not only for yourself but also for the team?

What matters to me is that we win games and we do our jobs.

The way I grew up was making the right play every time.

I don’t think the Lakers really knew me when they first drafted me. They just saw my name and my size and my stats. They just picked somebody because they had to.

It’s important as an athlete to know your body and how things affect it.

With years, you change. You’re not as hardheaded or stubborn. You are more malleable.

I think you could say that, a lot of players are insecure and sometimes we have this shield around us that we don’t want to accept that we have problems sometimes or we don’t know how to do things because we’re these superheroes.

When you accomplish something, or you don’t accomplish something, automatically your brain goes to the next challenge. That’s your next focus.

If you only take money in the bank and never put money in the bank, you’ll go broke.

I don’t know how many Michelin stars Barcelona has, but you don’t have to spend big money to eat great.

It’s not a lie that I’m a stronger guy than Pau. There’s nothing wrong with that.

I fell asleep during the draft, actually. I woke up, and I was picked No. 48. I didn’t even know what number I was picked.

Big guys are Great Danes. We don’t last very long.

We’re humans, and we’re moved by emotions.

In any relationship, there’s multiple moving pieces. Not just one.

I am a father. I have children.

I was just having fun because everybody was so much shorter than me. Honestly, my stats in high school were ridiculous. They made no sense.

The game comes natural for me.

Before being an athlete, I’m a person, a human being, like the ones Open Arms are saving every day.

My relationship with the Grizzlies might change, but my relationship with Memphis won’t. What I feel inside and how I feel about Memphis and its people has nothing to do with a franchise or a temporary thing. It’s not going to change.

That’s the only way I know how to play – dedicating yourself to the game, to the city, to the fans.

You always have something. You always have a challenge.

We gotta leave a better planet for our kids. And I would say we gotta leave better kids for our planet as well.

I was never insecure. A lot of people ask me that – especially, did you feel pressure being Pau’s brother? No, because I saw success through him. And I felt it. Because we’re so close of a family, when he got recognition, I felt happy for him. I felt genuinely happy for him.