Top 55 Jamal Murray Quotes

I play with a lot of heart, play with a lot of passion. And when you’re fighting for something, it means a whole lot more.

Coach Cal really makes you look good.

I have to try to help lead my team to win by any means.

I’m just trying to be aggressive. Be aggressive with my shot. Be aggressive going to the rim.

I was very disciplined growing up. If I didn’t want to run hills, I ran hills; if I didn’t want to jog around the block, I jogged around the block.

I was growing up in Kitchener, practising every day on my playground – and it’s all about how bad you want it.

It doesn’t matter who you’re playing against. It’s what you can do with your ability and what you believe in.

It’s hard to say a favorite rapper. If I had to pick two, I’m going to go with Busta Rhymes and Jay-Z.

I love to challenge people.

It’s not just passing, I gotta play defense, I gotta rebound, I gotta talk, I could have 40 and not talk and not bring energy. But it’s just trying to have an all-around game, just trying to be the leader I can be, get the pace up.

When Joker hits his three, it opens up the game for everybody.

I’ve had broken fingers and still played for Team Canada.

When I’m talking to my teammates, being the vocal leader, going up and down, pushing everyone, they tend to follow.

My whole life I played the point, so naturally I think as a point. Two guard, I get to score more… During the game, I like to mix it up.

I want everyone to know: You can play basketball in Canada and you can still get to where you need to go.

You don’t want to be the selfish point guard. You want to be the guy that gets everybody open, that makes plays, and see the ball move before it goes in.

Learning to meditate is one of my earliest memories. I started when I was maybe three or four. I mean, I didn’t know I was meditating. I just thought it was a weird game my dad had invented.

Just wanting to play, I think that’s my biggest attribute, just wanting to play through whatever I have to in order to go out and compete.

When I was six years old, I was always playing with the 10-year-olds. When I was 10, I was always playing with the 14-year-olds.

I can’t control what the other team’s gonna feel. I’m just gonna go out there and hoop, and whoever takes it to heart and takes their losses salty, I can’t do anything about that.

It’s kind of like, I’m just a guard.

When guys get competitive and get under each other’s skin, it brings you out more. Some people fold.

As a child, I was competitive in whatever it was – first one to eat your wings, first one to run to the door. In everything we were competitive. I always wanted to have the edge.

The first martial arts movie I ever watched was this old Chinese film called ‘Five Deadly Venoms.’ I was seven years old. My dad and I were sitting in front of the TV on the floor in our living room.

When me and Joker are on, I don’t think there’s anyone who can stop us.

You want to make every shot, but it’s not going to happen like that.

I don’t let other people get under my skin.

For it not to be safe for kids in school, it’s tragic.

I just play basketball. That’s me: all I know is basketball.

If you actually understand and listen to what he’s saying, there’s no one that can compete with Eminem. That’s why no one goes at Eminem because everybody knows Eminem is just, he’s too good in a rap battle.

I believe I can score on anybody.

In life, you find things that hold value to you. You find things to fight for.

I really wanted to step up my defense night in, night out. So that’s my mindset, just playing defense and trying to be consistent with that.

Fatigue is one thing. Injuries are another. But if you are just tired because you just practiced – well, I’m not having that.

I always try to demand greatness from myself.

It was a lot of fun to grow up in Canada.

The stuff that the cops do and the stuff that happens, what bothers us, the black community, is it’s so blatant… It’s so out in the open that if you can’t see it, then you are part of the problem because it is very obvious.

I just play the game. I’m used to trash talking.

You see who the real people are when they’re challenged.

I have the mind of a 1 in a 2-guard’s body.

When you’re successful, a professional athlete, you can help a lot of others.

My dad is the person who taught me how important the mental side of the game is. He studied kung fu growing up and he taught me how to meditate when I was a kid.

Life is a weird thing because it puts roadblocks in front of you, sometimes you gotta go through it, sometimes you gotta go around it, sometimes you gotta take a pause and look back at what you’re gonna do, have a plan.

I really pride myself on playing for Canada and representing the country in any way I can.

My dad taught me a lot of meditative techniques. I used that to my advantage.

My defence, that is something I can better at individually.

Everything is good when you’re winning. But true colors come out when you lose.

The main thing is being consistent, being efficient and getting good looks, moving the ball when you can and knocking down my free throws.

Whether it is my shooting or going to bed on time. There are so many things you can do to be consistent.

The best part of watching kung fu movies with my dad was the conversations they sparked. We never watched them just for fun. ‘Do you see how good his balance is?’ My dad would always zero in on really specific stuff like that. Everything had a potential lesson.

I grew up in a kung fu house. It wasn’t until I got older that I discovered that most families didn’t talk about the Shaolin Temple or Jackie Chan at the dinner table.

I love the game, play with passion.

The margin between winning and losing is slim.

We make mistakes, but we learn from them.

The fourth quarter is where players are made.