Top 60 Rudy Gobert Quotes

When you know where you want to go, you’re mentally tough.

First, I’m just trying to set screens for my teammates and then just be aggressive, make the right play.

I’ve been away from my family even when I was in France.

For years now, I’ve used gaming to unwind and relax during the season. It’s also how I manage to keep up with my friends when I’m on the road.

All the coaches preach about defense. Every day they talk about defense, they talk about how important it is to get stops in order to win basketball games.

When I started to do it with precision, I realized how much setting good screens made us better as a team offensively. It made things easy for me and my teammates.

My passion for gaming is well-known among both the Utah Jazz and my team in France.

I want to stay with the Jazz.

I might win a championship. I might win two or three. I might not. The journey to get there is, for me, the most important.

Usually, I heal very fast.

I want to improve every part of my game.

I mean, defense to me is something that when you watch a game you don’t really pay attention to defense unless you’re very – unless you’re a specialist.

I don’t care about that All-Star bonus, to be honest. It’s just about my legacy.

I’d take the Defensive Player of the Year any day over an All-Star selection. There’s only one of these in the whole league every year.

Defense is so important for helping your team win games and for the game in general.

I think when you’re a very good defensive team – it’s very rare a team wins a championship when you’re not a very good defensive team.

I trust my teammates and their ability to be there when they have to be there. I’m going to be there when I have to be there for them.

The more you see, the more you know, the more you feel like you can help others and the more you feel like you can help the team win.

I did some bad stuff. I don’t remember what in particular, but I did some bad stuff. So the morning of Christmas, I wake up and my brother is there, my sister, my mom, everyone’s got gifts and I can’t find my gifts. No gifts. They acted like Santa didn’t’ bring me anything because I wasn’t good.

I have a lot of pride.

In Europe and FIBA, the game is a little slower and the court is a little smaller.

I think I learned how it works in the league. When you are outside you don’t understand everything, but when you are inside you can know how it works.

It’s a tremendous amount of fans in France that love basketball, that follow it every day even though the games are at like two or three in the morning.

I don’t watch college basketball.

I always wanted to be one of the best, make a mark on the history of the game. For me, for my country, for my family.

I just wanted to keep getting better and better and better, and that’s just my mindset.

I’m working on my lower body, my explosiveness.

I think everybody needs to think about making plays for the team, making winning plays, before thinking about how many points we’re going to score and stuff like that.

I want to be an offensive player, too. Play low post, midrange, take jump shots, and just be the best I can be.

There’s a lot of things you don’t see on the stats.

I’m always going to be about winning.

My mom probably has a record player. I might need to get one.

I’m very proud of where I’m from.

You don’t want your opponent to score. You don’t want your guy to score and once you get better at it, you get used to it, it becomes a mindset. You just try to do it every game.

I just try to do what I do by getting my teammates open and getting better at finishing and making plays when I can.

I want to be an All-Star. That’s my goal. And win a title.

Once I got 13 or 14 years old, I started watching a lot of videos on YouTube and NBA.com and I started following the NBA ball.

In the playoffs, it’s not going to be pretty. There’s going to be some games where you don’t score. But are you going to take a charge for a teammate?

I think I learned basketball. I learned a lot.

When we get bad shots, it’s hard to rebound and it’s also harder to come back in transition defense.

It’s great to communicate as a team.

Some games I’m going to get more blocks or they’re going to do more mistakes and give up more baskets but some games I get zero blocks and I affect 20 shots.

When you have a coach that is a competitor, that wants to win more than anything else, it really carries over to the team.

The Defensive Player of the Year is the guy that makes his team better. Not only gets stats – it’s the guy that also has an impact on his teammates and leadership.

You don’t have to think, you just have to play hard on defense.

Some nights, you’re tired. But I just like to go out there and help my team win and not let my team down. It’s the least I can do.

Obviously, the basketball career doesn’t last forever.

I’m motivated every night.

Like I always say, it’s a five-on-five game.

Defense is the thing we can control and bring every night. But I want to be great on both ends.

I have so many great memories of Christmas because we’re always spending it with the family.

I think playoff experience matters for sure.

You cannot be mad at somebody for wanting to play for another team.

Everything I do, I do it to win.

I’m prepared to guard anyone.

Goaltending, sometimes it’s tough because you’re in the air and you say, ‘No, no. Don’t take the ball.’

Even though I didn’t have a lot of material things, I had the love and education and all together a lot of kids don’t have the same chances, so the goal is to give some chances to the kids that don’t have it.

It’s a team game.

I’m just working every day and keep watching film and keep building chemistry with my teammates.

I definitely want to be one of the best players in the history of the game. That’s a good goal to have.