Top 50 Brandon Ingram Quotes

I just want to be better. Of course, I’m not satisfied… I’m just pushing every day.

Work hard, work away from the game, work when no one’s looking, and just knowing that it’s a process. Everything will come at the right time.

I think I can do everything on the basketball floor. I just gotta be consistent in what I do.

On my youth teams, I always pretty good. I guess I just really started to play with some of my peers around age 8 or 9. We always battled and had fun playing in the rec leagues.

My great aunt raised me for about four or five years. Something I took from her was a quote: ‘Fear of suffering is far worse than suffering itself.’ I actually have that tattooed on the back of my arm.

Thirteen was my brother’s number.

I was shooting over my head. With my long arms, it was like a slingshot. Coming from college to the NBA, I was only about 180 pounds, so I was trying to push the ball to the rim from the 3-point line.

Seeing bigger guys doesn’t scare me at all. It just makes me want to compete against those guys. Bigger or smaller guys – it doesn’t matter.

I lay back and see how I can do things the right way.

I’ve always been a shooter.

LeBron knows exactly who he is.

I grew up being a Kobe fan, of course.

I feel like I’m a matchup problem, but that’s of course because of my height and the height difference at my position sometimes.

In the two years that I’ve been in the NBA, I don’t think I’ve played to my ability.

There are no other Kobe Bryants.

I think I’m a good enough ball handler to bring the ball up the basketball court, and my teammates do a great job of getting open.

I like George Gervin a lot, even as a guy that played a long time ago.

I might do a hobby or go to the movies, but everything comes back to basketball.

There is always going to be another game and another day.

I’m just kind of laidback and reserved.

I want to win. Whatever it takes to win, that’s what I’ll do.

Even Coach K thinks he can be a better coach each and every day.

I definitely want to show that I’m going to be a reliable guy to put in the work.

I like to play my game. I don’t want to do anything out of control, out of nature.

I just try to use my length to the best of my ability.

I try to take whatever the defense gives me, have a sense of urgency, know who’s guarding me and pick my spots, get my teammates involved and also attack the rim.

I think if you can score the ball, you can play at any level.

My greatest strength is my scoring ability. I’ve scored the ball at every level.

That’s all I seek every practice and every game, to progress in some way, be coachable and try to be the best I can be for my teammates.

It was fun getting my feet wet on an NBA floor.

Coach K tried to implement a style where we passing, moving the ball, the open guy gets the open shot, running in transition.

I like to be straightforward with whatever I’m doing, whether it’s basketball, whether it’s meeting someone, whatever it is.

I’ll do whatever the coach wants me to do.

I try to make a name off someone before they make a name off me.

I was always around basketball, from when I was four or five years old.

Of course my goal at Duke was to win the national championship, but we were shorthanded, and lost one of our big guys that was very important to the team. By the end of the season we only played about six guys. But we tried our hardest and did our best and overall had a successful season.

You’re always becoming; you’ve never arrived. And I use that day by day just for me to work hard each and every day, and know that no matter how good I worked out today, no matter how good I thought I was today, I can always get better and always be a better person.

Sometimes shots just don’t go my way, but for me in my growth and as a leader, it’s important for me to stay aggressive.

People around me, they can give me talks, they can tell me what to do, but if I don’t have the right mentality, then nothing good is going to happen for me because I’m not going to be confident.

I feel like I should be an NBA player.

We try not to worry about our opponent. We try to worry about ourselves.

I really don’t do much. I play basketball.

It’s OK to be hard on yourself, just know you have another chance to go out and prove yourself again.

I think as a player you’re never satisfied.

When I draw defenders into the lane, it’s easy for me to kick it out.

I’m just happy to be drafted. It’s my lifelong dream. Wherever I end up, I’ll be happy.

J. Cole is definitely one of my favorite artists, but I like a lot of different music.

I have the same routine every day just to make me a better basketball player, and I’m going to continue the routine just to see where it gets me and how I can reach my potential.

My motivation is to be the best I can be.

I’m not the most vocal guy, but I try to lead by example every single day with how I work.