Top 66 Joe Harris Quotes

To actually play a game, where you are in the World Cup, there is significance to it, the point differential matters, all these things kind of add up.

Shooting’s contagious: Guys start seeing the ball go in and everybody starts to feel good.

I loved going to a place like Virginia, making a connection and meeting the people that are outside of the whole basketball realm, and earning my degree from there.

I grew up in the Northwest, so I was always a really big Sonics fan. I loved Gary Payton, Shawn Kemp, a lot of those players who were really good through the ’90s.

If you’ve got one guy that can create just a little bit of space for somebody that can get downhill, it opens up everything offensively.

I come from a town in Washington state that might not be too familiar to Clevelanders called Chelan. It’s really beautiful. It’s about two-and-a-half hours east of Seattle and two-and-a-half hours west of Spokane. It’s right in the middle of the state.

I was fortunate in college to play as a freshman, but in the NBA, not a lot of rookies are coming in and making a significant impact right off the bat.

Sometimes you’ve got to be able to finish at the rim.

Coming into my rookie year, I could kind of eat whatever I wanted – you’re really not too concerned about it. But you don’t realize that a pound here and there is really not a good thing. It’s just basic physics: it’s harder to move faster and jump higher when you weigh more.

Obviously, you hope to make shots. But you can’t put too much pressure on yourself to make it, because whether or not they go in, you’re creating space everybody else.

I think you go across this league and you talk to every coach and every player, and dealing with a young, up-and-coming team is much different than coaching superstar players, and everybody kind of realizes that it’s a much different dynamic.

There aren’t a lot of second chances for second-round picks.

Some nights, depending on who you’re going up against, some guys are just capable of hitting tough shots.

If you look at all the top shooters in the NBA, guys that might be specialists like how I see myself, they’re always 40 percent and above. So, that’s a personal goal for me to get into that elite three-point shooting percentage.

It was like a brother-sister type relationship with all of my cousins. Growing up we were always hanging out together. We all kind of looked after each other like brothers and sisters when we went to school and stuff.

Yeah, I had a good relationship with Coach Blatt. I enjoyed playing for him. But the NBA is, first and foremost, a business, and as much as you may have liked the situation you were at, sometimes it just doesn’t work out your way.

I know I have a lot of areas and room to improve.

It was really important for me to get a degree that carried some weight, something that I really wanted to do.

None of us are perfect all the time.

The conditioning aspect of things is really important, obviously in basketball, and then specifically for players like me.

I’ve grown up with the same people my whole life. I’ve had the same classmates from elementary all the way through graduating.

Obviously playing on a team like the Cavs in 2014, they were championship contenders, not allowing a ton of young guys to come in and play through mistakes. If you weren’t helping the team have success you weren’t really afforded a lot of different opportunities.

I was so competitive when I played. I was trying to get every loose ball, trying to get steals. That’s what I was kind of infamous for in high school.

Some rookies build bad habits and it’s not until year three, four, five that they get to be part of a winning-type organization and culture.

I played football growing up so I used to lift quite a bit when I was in high school. And then I got to Virginia I was lucky, good strength and conditioning program and coach there.

Obviously any time you play home in front of your own fans, you definitely get a distinct advantage that way.

I miss UVA and Charlottesville a lot but not so much of going to class.

I mean, I don’t hate attention. I don’t embrace it or like it a whole lot.

I liked the idea of being one of the foundations for Coach Bennett’s program and trying to revive UVa basketball.

They have great restaurants, good nightlife. Everything is here in Brooklyn that you can possibly want.

I know what my game is and what I do well and I’m just going to keep trying to I,prove and make sure I’m consistent as possible in those areas.

You can play basketball – if you’re lucky – for about 10 years. So, you’re going to have to have something to fall back on.

When you have guards that are versatile, it just makes it a lot easier in terms of who you put on the court.

There’s teams that have a lot of success in the back-to-back, and I think those teams just have a strong mental fortitude.

Whenever you play with better competition or play against better players, it raises your level of play on both ends of the court.

If someone has my number that I don’t know and texts me a considerable amount I would just block the number.

There’s only so much you can do as far as individual skill work and conditioning on a bike. But you can’t simulate playing in an actual game. And it can’t satisfy the competitive itch you feel as a player.

You’re gonna have pretty bad defeats. But you’ve gotta be able to respond and come back in and compete the next night.

I don’t think too highly of myself, but at the same time, I don’t think too lowly of myself.

I think at the end of the day, regardless of who you’re playing against, there’s talent on every single team in the NBA.

I feel like I take a lot of pride in the patience that I play with.

I like this book by Angela Duckworth called ‘Grit.’

I play around 220.

I’ve kind of given up trying to evaluate college guys, especially guys from Virginia, just because of my bias.

Kyrie is a good guy. Spent a lot of time with him over the years because we were the same class in high school and ACC when he was at Duke. Then I was with him my rookie year in Cleveland.

Every time you play against somebody like Giannis, you have to be really locked into the game plan.

I keep in touch with all the guys that I was training with in Chicago during the pre-draft process; Nik Stauskas, Mitch McGary, Adrien Payne, and Dougie McDermott. We all got pretty close training together and we just keep tabs every now and then.

I just love basketball.

If you stay around in the NBA long enough, you’re going to bounce around, your teammates are going to bounce around, but those friendships, they remain constant.

I think Brooklyn is easily one of the best NBA cities out there.

Even over the course of the NBA’s schedule, you’re gonna have games where you’re gonna take your lumps.

Everybody has a different path to making it in this league. I was fortunate to get an opportunity here in Brooklyn.

The teams that have got good continuity, good chemistry typically have more success.

Cleveland, although I didn’t play a lot I really learned a ton in my year and a half of being there. I was really fortunate to be around some of the game’s best players.

Steph is the greatest shooter of all time. Shooting off the rack is not indicative of being a better shooter than Steph Curry.

In college you might think you travel a lot, but it is nowhere close to the NBA.

I’m one of the best shooters in the League.

I’ve been No. 12 my entire career. My cousin Nikki Haerling was a good basketball player, she wore No. 12 in high school and college, and my dad, he was No. 12 as well. I actually just started wearing it when I got to high school my freshman year.

Coach Blatt is very, very knowledgeable about the game. And it just goes to show you that no matter where you’re at, he knows as much about basketball as anyone. You learn a lot from him. And he’s a very charming guy, very personable. He’s pretty funny, too.

Obviously, back-to-backs are tough… but everyone goes through it in this league.

I kind of look like I work in a Brooklyn coffee shop.

You’ve got to be able to guard hard and then work yourself offensively to get shots.

I was lucky in my rookie year to play in the NBA Finals, to have that experience, to see what it was like to get to that stage.

I grew up in kind of a resort community. I lived on a big lake. It was really cool growing up there. But a lot of people come there in the summertime, especially Seahawks guys.

There’s a tendency, guys get really excited and go through practice, and they want to stay for an extra hour after and do these workouts. What you should be doing is getting in the cold tub or getting your corrective exercises in with your strength coach, little things like that which can help you in the long run.

I think I’ve gotten more comfortable and more confident on the defensive end. I’ve just been able to anticipate things a little bit better instead of reacting to how guys play offensively.