Top 55 Serge Ibaka Quotes

I just like to look nice.

As an athlete, it’s always good when you can do things with the fans, try to connect with the fans.

I’m not gonna try to force to look for threes, but if the three is open, I’m gonna shoot it.

To know how I am very important to my team on defense, how my teammates need me on defense, it means a lot to me.

I lost my mom when I was seven, and at some point in my life having food it was like a big deal for me because it was not every day.

I can play both ends of the floor.

When I think about power, it’s not about having money. It’s about changing people’s lives, changing people’s moods. To me, it’s a blessing to have that power.

My focus is to start my game with my defense every night.

End of the day, when you do something, you have to do something where you bring people together. You can’t do something where you separate people.

It’s a long story, my life, growing up with my dad, my mom when she died, everything. I had bad moments in my life, my dad going to prison, I had nothing, and that’s where I got my motivation.

I’ve said that before: I believe in God. With God, anything is possible.

When you play in the NBA, everybody wants to play in the All-Star Game. I really want to.

Money will not make you happy. It’s most important that you need to be happy. You need to do something you want to do.

My dad used to play basketball, now he gets to see me in the NBA Finals.

I love to lift after games.

I think God put me on this earth to play basketball.

Always feels good to give back.

My dream is to keep doing the best I can to help kids, give back and make them smile.

You can see when people’s locked in and they are ready mentally, and when they are not.

Not all players want to play defense. You get in foul trouble, you’re going to be on the bench.

My story. My past. I don’t want to forget that. I want to think about it and be reminded of it so I can be thankful and appreciative of everything.

I can shoot, or I can roll, I can finish inside, I can take two-point shots, I can switch on defence and I can protect the paint.

I believe in God, and I believe in miracles, and I believe that everything is possible.

One of the things I learned playing on a good team is when the team wins, when you make the playoffs, everybody looks good.

There was a complete rupture in my left calf.

It’s always pressure in sport. It was a lot of pressure since Day 1 in Orlando, and it’s going to be always pressure, but I think those pressures make us better.

I wish I had more body parts that I could work out. If I had my way, I’d be in the gym all day. I love to lift.

That’s the culture I come from – we like to dress nice. It is my thing.

When I was 16 I took the first opportunity I had to play basketball in a different country. I flew to Europe for the first time and found myself in the small town of Macon, in France. That was the first time I lived far away from my people, from my culture. I was young and had to adapt quickly.

I can play at four or I can play at five and I think I feel more comfortable because I’m flexible to do whatever I want to do.

Without pressure, I’m not going to wake up every day to go work, or do extra shooting, or lifting.

In life, sometimes you are up and sometimes you are down.

It’s life, man, and life is never easy.

It’s hard when you have to play a way you’re not really used to and you feel like you can do more than just that.

You need to love to play defense.

I’m mature enough to understand I can find time to do other things without disturbing my focus for basketball.

LeBron is not a good defender.

I love to win.

I know people that was playing basketball better than me. If they were in the NBA, they could be All-Stars, those people. They just never had the opportunity to go play professional basketball in Europe.

Defense, in the game, is something that I just really enjoy. Some people enjoy assisting the ball. Some people like to score, score, score, but to me the first thing that comes up is defense.

When I say about ‘dream is free,’ I don’t only mean about basketball or to be in the NBA like Serge Ibaka. No. I mean in general, in anything you do. You can do anything you want, anything you dream about. You can do it. You just have to know the dream is free. And dream is free for everybody.

I will never forget where I come from, and my journey to becoming an NBA Champion has been hard to believe.

I’m trying to do whatever it takes to help my team.

I’d read about NBA players in magazines when I was growing up in Congo, but I had never actually seen what NBA basketball looked like because we didn’t have access to a satellite for TV.

Taking care of my body helps me to focus.

It wasn’t until I moved to Spain that I actually got my first glimpse of the NBA. I’d watch this program called ‘NBA Action,’ which came on every week and showed clips from different games.

You cannot control everything – you try to control what you can control.

At first, I wanted to be a good player in the NBA. When I get to a team where you have one of the two best scorers in the league, I just said to myself that I needed to do something. I need to do something to help my team, something to make my name. That’s where I started to focus on defense.

It’s always fun to play on a winning team.

Some foods you may say, ‘Oh wow, this is not food.’ People actually eat that somewhere. I just want people to really understand that and really appreciate it.

When it’s time to dress, I have to think. I have to envision myself in a certain outfit. The night before, when I go to bed, I close my eyes and start thinking about the outfit I’m going to wear tomorrow: all the colors, the fabrics, how it’s going to look. It’s about putting the whole thing together.

Not everybody can do everything at a high level.

Basketball did not save my life. God saved my life. It’s not basketball. But God saved my life because he blessed me through basketball. He opened the door from basketball.

Most of the time when you’re open that’s when it’s tough to make shots because you try to get some different focus than normally when some guys try to contest your shots.

I’ve been learning when to block shots against who I’m playing. I’m not just going to leave a shooter to go block shots.