Top 60 Tobias Harris Quotes

All of my coaches, from high school to AAU and college, helped me learn and get better.

Each and every day I truly wake up, I’m thankful to have a life and be alive. I’m thankful to do what I do.

It’s night by night, just figuring out watching film on different passes I can make, and the ball will find you and it comes back to you, but it opens up the floor for other guys too.

I need to continue to grow as a player and as a person and continue to work as hard as I can. That’s what I’m going to do; I’m not going to stop working and just continue to work hard.

I think confidence is a key thing in this league and I want everyone that’s on the floor with me to be just as confident as I am.

My father is a hell of an agent and hell of a businessman.

I think that’s the difference in my game compared to some other guys. I just believe in playing in the flow of the game, playing the right way with ball movement.

I had very good vets that took me under their wing, so I just want to be sure I give the same thing back.

When I do a lot of the community outreach with the youth, I can easily see the blessings that I’ve had in my life, even as a young kid growing up.

There are a lot of hard-working parents out there for whom it is hard to support their families during Thanksgiving.

In any professional sports, in general, the community and the team go hand and hand.

I do not like giving my money away.

From being my coach as a kid, and starting his own AAU team for myself and my brothers to play… my father was a father figure for a lot of people I grew up with. We’ve done amazing things together. It’s the type of father-son bond that nothing will separate us.

I read a lot before a game.

Obviously winning’s important for me, star players are important.

Hopefully, I can keep growing as a player and have my number retired at Tennessee and in the NBA one day.

For police officers who commit this violence, there has been no accountability. Cops are supposed to be held to a standard of conduct, but they always get the benefit of the doubt, inherently. They act like we ain’t supposed to question nothing.

I always root for the underdogs. That’s my whole thing.

I try to just find motivation in different areas.

Honestly, I just needed some guidance my rookie year. I needed to know what to wear, and where to find stuff. It took me like three years to find jeans that fit me!

I want to win and I want to win more than anybody.

I know the work that I put in the offseason correlates to the season.

I’ve been in situations with different team. I could fit any style.

That’s important when you’re on this NBA journey, in different cities, playing, competing – to really enjoy the whole thing.

For me as a basketball player, it’s about continuing to get better and continuing to grow.

Being able to provide kindness to people putting their lives at risk in hospitals and supporting Philadelphia families in dire need of help is an important responsibility for me.

Basketball is more than our family business; it’s our family passion.

A lot of young guys, I’m just trying to show them the way, make sure they have successful careers and I’m having fun doing it.

I met Michael Jordan as a kid. I train with George Gervin also, so that’s a big thrill as well. I’ve learned a lot from him.

God-willing, I’ll continue to stay healthy.

I’m able to take myself out of the celebrity bubble and the profile that I’m at, and look at what black people are going through around the country.

I’m always happy to be back on the court playing, doing what I love to do.

What we do with the Magic, it’s not just for a picture or an Instagram post; it’s about helping kids’ lives and having them tell their parents that an NBA player told him something that will stick with them. It’s all about the impact that we can make with these kids’ lives.

I pride myself by being a player that plays in the flow of the game, and tries to get the offense created through other teammates.

I’ve put my time in the weight room and I can definitely feel it.

I believe you have to learn how to win. And that just doesn’t come from going out on the basketball court and playing. That comes from hours and hours of preparation, preparation before that game, preparation for the other team you are playing, mental preparation.

I like looking at Carmelo Anthony and what he does on the floor. I also like Luol Deng; I think my game is similar to his.

I just try to bring every situation I’m in to God.

When I came to the Orlando Magic and saw work that they did in the community, I wanted to ripple off that and make a difference too.

My sisters play ball. My older brother, he’s in my ear. My younger brother, he’s in my ear. Critiquing me on my game. That’s who I mostly pay attention to.

Any time you get guys who are super professional, we call them pros’ pros.

Whatever the circumstances, my main task is always going to be just to win the game.

I listen to all types of music. I listen to a lot of hip hop, but I also listen to pop and house music. I really, really like smooth jazz.

It’s been amazing to me every day just putting on that Team U.S.A. gear. That’s the team that I used to watch as a kid on NBA TV and now I’m a part of it! It doesn’t get much cooler than that.

As athletes, as people, the way we’re looked at in the community, and through kids, we’re looked at as role models. The more we can use that to help build better relationships, to help people get along better, we have to acknowledge that and we have to go and do our part with that.

God has a plan for me and I know that it’s all going to work out.

I’m not really a big walk-around-the-city type of guy. I’m a hotel type of guy.

I always try to make sure that the workspace that I’m in – the NBA, there’s highs and lows – but I always make sure that I never let the highs and lows truly determine my true happiness as a person.

When I came into the league, I was very politically correct, because I didn’t want to step on anyone’s toes. Now, I’ve gotten to the point where I know you don’t have to be like that.

Trust takes a lifetime to build, but only a moment to destroy. When looking to build a genuine connection with a mentor, you can simply partake in shared hobbies or activities the mentee or mentor is into, exchange stories, or partake in trust-building workshops together.

We been in the streets protesting for years about police brutality.

I would say one of my favorite books is ‘Blood Brothers,’ a documentary about Malcolm X.

Britton Kelley is the best strength coach I’ve had in my life – he’s probably the best in the country. He has really transformed my body and really made me a lot stronger. A lot of guys he has trained are in the NBA.

I want to win just as much as anybody else does.

I just go out there and play basketball. I’ll let everything else handle itself.

You can’t please everybody; everybody knows that, but at the same time all you can do is control what you can control and that’s going out there as a player every single night and giving my all.

We really want our kids, and our youth, to understand that one, knowledge is power, and two, you don’t have to be shy about being educated, and being ahead of the learning curve.

That’s a good feeling when you can really just focus on basketball, focus on your role, on how you can help the team.

For me, I look at it like if I’m playing basketball at the NBA or if I’m a principal at a school, which is something I would love to do when my career is over, I’m going to find ways to always bring Christ out in my life.

I’m the type who is always going to continue to work, continue to stay prayed up like I always am. At the end of the day, that’s how you bounce back and how you keep going.