Top 70 Ricky Rubio Quotes

Sometimes at night during the season I was going through hell. Waking up in, who knows, Sacramento, in L.A., in the middle of the night alone in a hotel and thinking, ‘Why am I here? Is it really worth it?’

I know what I can bring to the table. I have done it all my career, but every team you need something different.

By signing a contract, you accept the conditions, but there are ways and forms. Players are privileged, but those who are in charge of these things have to understand that, in addition of players, we are also people.

A lot of people, a lot of players, come to the league knowing ‘I can do that, I can do this, I can do a lot of stuff.’ But at the end of the day, what the team needs from you is what makes sense for the team. You have to do what’s best for the team.

I like culture. So D.C. is a great city for me.

If I help the team, I don’t think of my stats.

I love playing basketball, but the most important thing to me is my family.

When you’re young, every game and every situation it seems like it’s the end of the world sometimes when it’s not working.

When a point guard is unselfish and thinking about the team, about winning first, it relates to the other players. So, I think that is my style of play.

I mean, you want to have fun, but you want to win, too.

At one point I decided to forget about all the pressure and just play for fun and do my game and enjoy what I do.

Sometimes losses come and it’s hard.

It’s an exciting prospect playing in the NBA, one that every player wants. When you are little you dream about it.

I loved Minny. I still do. And that place, those people – they will always be in my heart.

When you hang out a lot off the court, the chemistry builds up and you can see it on the court. You become friends and teammates. That has an impact on the game.

You have to learn all the plays not only in your position, but you have to know where everybody has to go.

Minnesota was the team who drafted me and I don’t want to think anything else. They were the one who trusted me and I’m so glad that they did.

At the end of the day, I think the players listen more to other players than the coach himself.

I remember watching Argentina beat the U.S. in 2004 and I think maybe the same story that Argentina wrote with the ‘Gold Generation,’ we can write, too.

If I can do some magic, I do it.

Basketball is basketball. You have to pass the ball, you have to score.

There are different types of leaders.

I know how to run a team and other stuff.

If I want to do something in this life, it’s to make this world better. One of the ways is impacting the kids by letting them have fun but at the same time teaching them some values.

I never jumped too high, I’m going to be honest.

It doesn’t change much, my job from one team to the another. What I bring to the table. Helping the team be better and helping the young teams grow and help the talent already here. Get the best out of them.

The thing that you have to do is… try to be yourself.

I live a life that I never regret any decision.

There’s a lot of coaches who are just going to try to save themselves before saving you.

When I tweet in English, Spanish people get mad at me. When I tweet in Spanish, English people get mad at me. You never can be 100 percent for everybody, you know. I try to do both, at the same time; but it’s hard.

It’s fun to see all the trades. Unless it’s you.

I know where my weaknesses are. I am not as athletic as other point guards in the league. I can’t dunk over people. Maybe I’m not a good shooter, or whatever they say. But I know my strengths and that is helping my team to win by knowing exactly every moment what to do.

Barcelona is very similar to Santa Monica.

I think basketball is a great way to have fun with the kids and teach some values through basketball.

I watched Magic Johnson on tape. I didn’t have a chance to watch him live. I remember I was 12 or 13, watching games, going to the gym and trying to mimic what they do. Steve Nash, Jason Kidd, all those guys.

I am willing to do whatever the team needs to win as many games as possible.

I’m going to keep working hard.

I like to read psychologist’s books. ‘The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari,’ that’s one of my favorites. Those kinds of books.

Sometimes you think you have all the time in the world. But the time is now. Sometimes you only have a brief opportunity.

I have to learn how to be more vocal. I’m not good at that and I have to improve.

I want to play with a winner.

You have to sacrifice something for the best, for the team.

I think one of the hardest things to do in the league is not having a great year, but it’s having a better year when you had a great year. All the attention is going to be on you, all the pressure is going to be on you. The challenge you’re going to have is more mentally than anything else.

When I go to bed and we’ve won that day, no matter what I did on the court, I am happy. And if we lost, no matter what I did, I am sad.

You have to try to play well and focus on your game, and that’s it.

In 2001, I watched Kinder Bologna win the EuroLeague, and I thought, Damn, I want to the win that some day. I remember thinking it was the coolest thing in the world.

If you do the same mistake over and over again, it means you’re not learning.

I’m not a man of many words, I don’t like to talk much. I prefer deeds, sacrifices and showing that what matters is the team.

What I’ve been doing, since I am young, is leading by example, practicing hard and doing everything on the court.

Every time you don’t make the playoffs, you have something inside that you want to prove again next year.

I want to play against the best players in the world.

I try to do it in both languages: English and Spanish. But sometimes I just Tweet in Spanish.

I like all sorts of games that make you think. Chess is one of the games I play a lot, read a lot of books.

I prefer a small town where everybody knows everybody.

Basketball isn’t one-on-one. It’s five-on-five, plus the bench.

What makes a good team is putting the pieces together and make it work. As a veteran, it’s part of my job to make that work. Seeing where and how the young talent has to sacrifice something for the team.

It’s just something, ‘Should I run the team or should I score?’ I gotta learn how to balance that, and be more aggressive sometimes.

The goal of this sport is team wins.

In Spain, we have a pretty good league – for me, I think it’s the second-best league in the world. They play tough there, they play aggressive. The big difference is that we play only one game a week in Spain, maybe two.

I wanna be a coach on the floor.

I’ve really learned, first, focusing on the future and thinking about the future doesn’t let you enjoy where you are now. And second of all, it’s things that you can’t control. You can’t know.

If I wanted to play individual, I’m going to play tennis or something like that.

Some people like it, some people not. I did an Instagram poll where I asked: man-bun or not, and no man-bun won. And I’m trying to follow what the people want. But sometimes I go out of the line and go back to my man-bun.

I use a lot of Pinterest to follow trends.

I can be put in every situation.

You try to run to try to have freedom and try to have fun and sometimes you have to take care of the ball.

We used to watch a lot of EuroLeague and ACB, which are the two leagues back home in Spain. And we used to dream about playing for those teams one day.

It’s hard, when you are hearing things with the rumors that you are going to be traded, to be focused.

Losses will come. That’s for sure. There’s nobody in the league who has gone 82-0.

You don’t find a lot of coaches who cares more about you as a person than the results.