Top 50 Robin Lopez Quotes

I like going to San Francisco. It’s close to where I grew up.

In my experience, accountability is a huge part of team success.

When you are getting drafted you have an idealized situation, but you really don’t know how things are going to go down.

I just know as a rookie, a young guy, you see the game totally differently and it could take awhile for it to slow down the right way.

When you travel around the world you see people repping your team, occasionally repping your name. That’s very special, that’s a bond that can’t really be broken.

Obviously I’ve loved my time here in Portland.

I feel like my earliest encounters with mascots, they were never too receptive of me. I was a taller child. I always looked a little older than I was. I don’t think I ever got proper attention from those mascots.

Steve Nash, Grant Hill, they were always preaching whether you win or lose. You have to keep an even keel, keep a level head.

Losing is hard on all of us regardless of rookie or veteran.

Traditionally I’ve always led by example.

I really hate the Detroit Pistons’ mascot Hooper. A lot of beef with him for a long time. I don’t why, he just started going after me.

Setting a solid screen is something I’m proud of.

Practicing every day against good players, I think you’ll improve every way imaginable.

You’re going to have more skilled and more talented big men and you’re going to have guards who will similarly adjust by pulling up from half-court, like the Ball brothers at UCLA. It’s really interesting the way the game is going to evolve.

If I’m not playing basketball, I’m reading or thinking of stories I can create.

What kind of a dinosaur am I? I guess something like a triceratops. A triceratops is not too dynamic, but has a little strength.

Who doesn’t love scoring the basketball? That’s kind of the name of the game.

Who knows how players are going to develop in the future? I work on developing my own game.

I’m trying to be the people’s champion.

Obviously in the NBA, winning is everything; every NBA player will tell you when you are in a winning situation that’s what this league is about. That one year in Phoenix when we went to the Western Conference finals was amazing; Portland when we got to the second round was a great year.

There’s something to be said for doing things a certain way.

I go after the back of the basket pretty fiercely. It’s padded so I know it’s safe.

I want to play as many games as I possibly can.

I think the only mascot that truly defeated me was Grizz of the Memphis Grizzlies. He threw a ‘Kick Me’ sign on my back. I thought he was extending an olive branch… he blindsided me.

There’s been a lot of coaches, a lot of guys at Stanford, a lot of guys at my high school. A lot of guys in the NBA. Bill Cartwright comes to mind, a lot of people I’ve learned from.

Basketball is a passionate game.

I’ve always prided myself on being a defensive big man.

I don’t like being scored on on the floor.

I think the four men of the Beatles are an apt comparison for one Robin Lopez.

I want to do the best I can with the situation I’m dealt.

I think really I’ve always had the same focus, to go out there and I like to facilitate and help my teammates in any way I can, go out there and work hard and I think things will turn out right.

Everybody sacrifices when you’re in a team setting. It’s kind of par for the course.

L. Frank Baum is a genius.

The influences I had were all people with versatile interests who had a large world view.

Different matchups are always fun for me.

I’m a basketball player. I’m going to compete every night, play some good ball and get better.

I want to be the best player I can be on the court.

There have been times we recognize, ‘I need to get better at this particular aspect of the game.’

You worry about what you can control.

I usually let my game do the talking.

I’m comfortable swinging the ball at the top of the key.

Although Perm is one of the biggest cities in Russia it felt like a different kind of Russia. In Moscow, you have the Kremlin, St. Basil’s, a lot of Soviet iconography everywhere. In Perm, it was a different side of Russia. A little more folksy. If Moscow is an iron statue of an eagle, Perm is a matryoshka nesting doll.

I like contributing to the team, contributing to the game however I can.

My mindset is to go out there to do anything I can to help out my teammates, be that garbage guy like that. I think I’ve been very crisp from that standpoint. I’ve played with some great guys and some great teams and some not so good teams, but I think I’ve drawn a lot from those experiences.

When you have somebody out there that’s willing to work for the team first, that’s contagious. In Phoenix, I learned that from Steve Nash, Grant Hill, so many different guys. When you’re playing with somebody like Steve, like Grant, that just passes on to you.

We’ve all evolved as players throughout our tenure in the league.

Everybody looks to expand their game. That’s how you keep yourself in this league, in this game.

You can go on about injuries in this league; those will happen.

I’m just going out there, particularly defensively I am trying to help my teammates. I am trying to get my guys open with screens and such.

I loved playing in the triangle. That was a fun experience for me.