Top 55 Manu Ginobili Quotes

I’m very low-key.

What the Food Bank does is unbelievable to me.

I been asked about my legacy and I really don’t care much about the legacy.

I watched the NBA a lot growing up. I was a big fan, especially of the Bulls in the early 90s.

I know with Coach Messina I started to understand where my teammates were, how to use them and make them better for the benefit of the team.

Some people think, ‘Who is this guy? Where did he come from? I never heard of him.’ But it took me time to become a good NBA player.

The way I played, the way my body was all over the place, not thinking about being careful for the next game or anything like that, I think fans liked it.

We all need to get our pets spayed or neutered.

You try to get the best shots possible, try to find the open teammate.

It makes me feel good to do some things for my people. I believe we really help. I know we are not changing the world, but we try to help different people in different situations and we think we are accomplishing it.

If you take going to the bench as a demotion or something that’s terrible, you start with a bad attitude.

Even the bad moments, the tough ones, I’m proud of them, too. Those moments get you better, smarter, make you grow.

When I got to the league, nobody knew me.

When you get blitzed on every pick-and-roll aggressively, you’ve just got to find the open teammate.

It’s not always about winning a game or winning a championship.

Sometimes you play and you think you’re doing one thing, and then you don’t. The coaches are the ones who see it the best way.

I just try to create and make plays.

As long as we keep playing well, having a great record, that makes everything easy.

If I’m not playing good, it’s just because I’m not playing good, not because my body is limiting me.

Not one Argentinian in history had made it to the NBA. So why was it going to be me? There was no way me or anyone that was near me could ever envision a career like this.

I think you got to live in the present and once it’s over, it’s over.

You learn from losses and enjoy the every day, too.

We left, I think, a footprint in FIBA basketball. Proud of it.

Myself and Tony Parker must be aggressive and attack the rim, because when we do so, we are at our best, and that opens up perimeter opportunities.

My city was very basketball-minded so I was born playing basketball and I didn’t like playing soccer that much.

When all your teammates make shots, it’s easy to get assists. Nobody feels the pressure to score. It makes the game so much easier.

Well, the Argentinians are very attached to their athletes, and you know, there are some cities with a big Argentinean community. Miami is the main one for sure, Orlando, Houston, Denver.

I don’t follow the NFL.

What I don’t miss is the travelling, the late games, the back-to-backs, the not being able to sleep well. Being tired or sore, I don’t miss that part at all.

I’m a very lucky man.

It’s not like I was a one-of-a-kind talented guy at 18 who made it to the NBA and have been playing in All-Star Games ever since.

Obviously, there is not one player in the world that doesn’t like making shots.

I have a real sense of appreciation of being in the NBA with all that I’d gone through.

I know a lot of people want to buy puppies, but adopting a dog who needs a home is doing something good.

I started playing pro in Argentina. Then I went to second division in Italy. Then after a lot of work, I made it to first division. And at 25, I got here in the NBA.

I’m not good with long rests.

Winning is a very exciting thing, for a moment.

I just play to win every game.

It is always painful when you see a teammate leaving. You create a bond, and you have been together for so long, and you are going to do your best with your guys.

I know when I am coming with the second unit, the team is kind of playing for me. I am kind of ‘The Man’ in there.

First, confidence in your talent and then confidence that the team is going to look for you, because they need you. And when you reach that point, it changes a lot, because your mindset is completely different.

Many times, we athletes have a camera in front of us and in many cases a lot of people with that same background or history do not have that opportunity.

That is what I’m going to remember when I retire, the rings I have. Not the fact I played 28 minutes or 33 or my name being called in the starting lineup.

I really don’t care about coming from the bench if that helps the team to win a championship.

If you’re from Argentina, you don’t dream about these things. You probably dream about being in an Olympic game, but winning it? Going there and beating the NBA stars’ team… you don’t dream about that.

I know I’m not the most orthodox kind of player. I just feel normal being like that.

I bet it isn’t easy to have each one of you moves overanalyzed.

It’s easy to remember the wins, the good moments, the highs.

If you live your life thinking about your legacy or what you’re going to leave, you don’t worry than you add another concern. Just live your life every single day, do the best you can and that’s more of my motto than leaving a legacy.

When you can’t dunk anymore, you have to find a way to make it into the news.

If I can hit a couple shots early, the opponent guards me in a different way.

Sometimes having good games. Sometimes bad ones. Sometimes making shots, and sometimes not. I’m the same guy, and I always said that winning the championship or not winning it, scoring 20 the last game or second-to-last or whatever, or zero, is not going to change who I am or the decision I make.

I’m way more worried on my future well-being, and my kids, and my family, where we are going to live and what we are going to do, than what is going to happen with the Spurs. With all due respect, of course. I love the franchise, and I’m probably going to be attached in some way.

I played because I loved doing it, out of respect and appreciation.

You could come out and play a flawless game and still lose to a quality team; you could do things right, but they hit shots and things happen.