Top 55 Andre Iguodala Quotes

I’ve been blessed to be in the NBA.

My whole life, I’ve felt like I can do anything on the basketball court, from playing point guard in high school to having to play center one year in high school, doing everything in college and going through different roles in Philadelphia.

If I get on the golf course, my basketball game is a direct reflection of how many rounds of golf I can get. So, the more rounds of golf, the better I play.

It’s important to dabble in things that interest you, and for me, I’m interested in the tech space that is here in Silicon Valley, fashion and golf.

JaVale McGee is one of the smartest guys I know. Like, he’s a nerd, plays with gadgets, and is into technology. He’s funny – he’s got crazy jokes, and his timing with jokes is really funny. You have to be really smart to think the way he does.

It’s a really good place for me to be, on the golf course.

When you go out there, you’re not just representing your country or the NBA: you’re representing your beliefs. You want to play hard for Someone who died for you.

I feel like golf has brought me some peace.

We have to have adversity in order for us to really reap the benefits and really just have an appreciation of how hard it is to win in the NBA.

People ask what message I have for kids, and it’s simple: Just go outside.

You always wonder how a coach’s demeanor will be going from assistant to head coach. They can kind of change, the personality, and you don’t know how that will affect the team or how they see him.

I wasn’t highly touted coming out of high school, so it wasn’t like I was expecting to get a lot of minutes. For me, I didn’t know how good a player I was, even though I think I did decent as a freshman.

I have a drive to get more steals and improve my game and stats overall every year.

NBA players, we’re directly involved in the tech world whether we know it or not. Media content and wearables directly influence us every day.

Especially as pro athletes, at the highest level, what we put into our bodies plays a huge part in our performance.

They make documentaries like ‘Fast Food Nation.’ The food our kids are eating in schools, the vending machines kids go to a lot, the portions of food that American restaurants are serving that are bigger than anywhere else in the world – it’s kind of crazy.

It’s natural to me. I played point guard my whole life up until my senior year of high school. Most people don’t know that. It’s just in my game.

In every sector of business, it’s really hard to build something where you can get on a good run. In sports, it’s even harder because you only have a small window for an athletic career.

I try to get through a book every two weeks.

I was always a guy who could score the ball as a kid, but everybody wanted to score. And I always wanted to be different in some type of way.

The Spurs, obviously – you look at an organization like that and say that’s what you want to be consistent, because they’ve become consistent. That’s what you start striving for night in and night out.

Ben Horowitz, he’s the guy. He’s really big into hip-hop, and he’s a brainiac.

Every player goes through streaks where they’re just not making their shots. It may last two games, it may last ten games, and a lot of times, it’s something off the court that is bothering you, or coach might cut your minutes for some unknown reason.

Tech stuff, I will always do. They’ve been good to me.

I’m wearing a blazer, like, all the time. That’s my go-to – a blazer – and I can just figure out if I want to wear jeans or slacks. Turn it into a suit.

I don’t want to be a basketball player that’s a businessman. I want to be a businessman that’s a business.

In the Finals, you want to set a statement like, ‘This is me. This is who I am.’ You know everyone’s watching.

In golf, you’re more competing with yourself.

I’m just a golf enthusiast where I enjoy the game so much, and I’m excited.

I do a little bit of everything… kind of like being a chef on the court.

When I introduce my basketball friends to golf, I tell them to just swing halfway. The power is the easy part.

I came to the Bay Area not just to play basketball but to explore business interests.

That’s the number one thing for a guy for a new coach coming in. You’ve really got to buy into the system and believe it’s going to work because, if you don’t, it’s going to cause conflict, and you’re not always going to be on the same page as the other guys on the team or with the coach.

At the end of the day, everybody wants to win.

When I was growing up, there wasn’t too much technology. There weren’t so many channels that we were glued to on TV. We had to go outside and create our games. Kids had the habit of being active and exercising, just enjoying the fresh air.

When you get to college, they’re never teaching you how to start a credit line or get a loan on a car, things of that nature.

The biggest thing is becoming a better player and proving your doubters wrong.

Yoga helps me with basketball, but it helps me outside of it more than anything.

The key to success is to find things that you have a passion for and would enjoy doing, even if you weren’t getting paid to do it.

I’m a huge tennis fan, so the game I play the most is ‘Top Spin.’ You really have to know how to play tennis to get good at this game – whether you want to hit a forehand or a backhand, when’s the best time to hit a slice – it’s so real.

I got a yoga mat, I do yoga twice a week. I do both regular and hot yoga. Lululemon has an extra large yoga mat, longer and wider, so it fits me.

I used to be PlayStation only, but Xbox 360 is really cool, so we play ‘Live’ and ‘Tiger.’

I’m a tennis fan, so I like Roger Federer. He’s always two or three steps ahead, so he’s hitting a shot, but he’s also thinking about the next two shots. So I try to be in that frame of mind – to always be ahead.

Yoga, meditation, and unplugging the phone at night to make sure I get enough hours of sleep. That’s huge for athletes.

The majority of NBA players’ upbringing, there’s not much financial education.

I think I’m a smart guy who knows the game.

Most of the time, it’s easy for us basketball players to adjust to our situation.

I wanted to be the best player, so I thought in order for me to be the best player, I had to guard the best player on the court.

As long as I keep working hard, the sky will be the limit.

When I’m out there playing basketball, it’s just, ‘Let me do me,’ and everybody is going to benefit. I feel confident that whoever I’m out there with is going to win.

I’m a collector of designer backpacks.

I try to let the people I do business with off the court know that I’m serious about my business off the court. So I try not to mix the two.

The sixth man, the position, I don’t have a problem with, but the award – it’s not that it’s not important, but being singled out, it’s like affirmative action or something like that to me. So, it’s like, whatever.

It’s a real accomplishment for me, personally, to be named to the All-Star team.

Guys on Team U.S.A. were calling me Iggy just to mess with me. I’ve been called that since I was a kid. I don’t care.