Top 77 Point Guard Quotes

Ever since I was little, I always played point guard. All throughout high school, junior high. I hit a couple growth spurts and the guard thing just always stayed with me. It just comes natural.

I have no handles, I’m no point guard.

For me to be here tonight, everything had to be perfect. I had to get drafted by Utah, had to play with a point guard like John Stockton, and had to be coached by Jerry Sloan and Frank Layden.

I played point guard my whole life.

Definitely, my whole life I’ve played as a point guard. I’ve tried to get in the paint, and I’ve tried to develop for others.

My favorite point guard, growing up, was Magic Johnson. The reason why I say that is he was a winner, and he did everything in his power to make his teammates better. That’s what the game is all about as a point guard.

I think when you have the point guard guarding someone full court and just chasing the guy all around, always in the right spot, it just makes you want to get down in a stance and be his backup and have his help whenever he needs it. Or having the same energy that he has.

To be a point guard, to run the team and have the ball in my hands and try to make plays for others – that’s who I am.

When I get the rebound – push the ball. That couple of seconds when you’re trying to find the point guard, you’re losing in transition. You rebound, push the ball and the whole game is faster.

Every team I play, I’m playing them like we playing the Golden State when they had Kevin Durant. Every point guard I play, I’m playing Steph Curry. Every shooting guard I’m playing, I’m playing James Harden. Every three-man I’m playing, I’m playing LeBron and KD.

I had a lot of doubt coming into my career about being an elite point guard in this league.

Before I got big, I was playing point guard, so I’m kinda like a pass-first person. Some people tell me I should be more selfish, but that’s not me.

I signed with a club when I was 12. I started living by myself at 14. I turned pro at 16. I grew up playing nothing but point guard, and suddenly, I was a 16-year-old small forward matched up against 35-year-old men.

When you’re younger, everyone wants to be a point guard. Everyone wants to shoot fadeaway jump shots all day. Nobody wants to be a big man. Nobody wants to go stand on the block and just set picks.

I’ll try to help everybody. That’s what I try to do as a point guard.

I think the most important position in the league now is the point guard.

I wouldn’t call myself a real point guard.

I’m a versatile point guard who is unselfish and can score at all three levels.

It used to be you a needed a true center to win championships, but now the point guard position holds just as much weight.

I’m a pretty athletic big, pretty versatile for how big I am. And I can dribble down the court when I want to put my point guard pants on.

Most people don’t know I like to block shots. I’m going to be a big point guard out there. So just come in and prove myself. Just show why I belong on this stage.

I’m definitely a ‘comfort’ player. As a point guard, I like to know my teammates, feel connected to my teammates, and flow with them.

My mentality when guarding a point guard was always to try and disrupt him and take them out of the offense.

That’s something a point guard can always work on, with keeping his dribble alive a little better. It’s so important.

I was taller than most of the kids. When I started playing basketball, my coach put me at point guard. Europeans do that sometimes.

I don’t like Derrick Rose, he’d rather score than distribute. That’s not who I want as my point guard.

The hardest thing to do is be a point guard, learn how to be a point guard in the NBA as a young player because you gotta earn your respect first of all the old guys, all the old heads. You gotta command where to go, know the plays.

I can’t think of much higher praise to give a player than to say, ‘This point guard reminds me of Jason Kidd.’

I grew up as a point guard, and as a point guard you learn how to navigate situations.

I want to make sure the other point guard can’t start his offense until 12 or 13 seconds. Then I’ve put my team in position to defend just one pick-and-roll and one pass.

On the court, I want to try and get to the free-throw line a little more. And as a point guard, you can always get better at your decision-making and limiting your mistakes.

I’m not the All-Star point guard that everybody’s dreaming about right now. I’m not that. I wish I was, but I’m a work in progress and I’m not scared to admit that. But what I am is a good citizen and a guy who’s not scared to put his neck on the line for his community or for his state. And I’m always going to do that.

I was just taught, the team goes how the point guard goes.

Magic Johnson is one of the greatest players to ever play… he’s the best point guard to ever play, so I can learn a lot of things from him.

My particular demigod is the Sonics point guard Gary Payton, who is one of the most notorious trash-talkers in the National Basketball Association. He’s not really bad. He’s only pretend bad – I know that – but he allows me to fantasize about being bad.

I don’t want to be called a point guard, but I can’t stop it.

I know I can play point guard.

If someone wants to call me a Harlem Globetrotter, well, great, go ahead. I was very good at basketball. I was a really good point guard. I was the best passer.

My 10th grade year I was 6-foot-4 and I grew to like 6-foot-7, but I still had my guard skills. I was playing point guard, I was a big guard. People started calling me ‘Penny Hardaway’ – comparing me to him because I was a big guard.

I can’t just say I wanna take a Hall of Fame point guard and make him into something else.

You ask what position I play, I say point guard.

With my game, my biggest asset is being a point guard who can get into the paint.

Plenty of times LeBron is mistaken as a point guard, which is awesome.

But yeah, a lot of people compare me to Magic. The physical appearance, the tall point guard, the ability to pass the ball. But comparisons are one thing, it’s up to me to go out and play my game, get those wins, those championships, that’s the only way those comparisons can get closer, but he’s a legend.

I was an in-between size. I wasn’t tall enough to be a real forward, and I probably didn’t handle the ball well enough to be a point guard.

When you have a guy like Chris Paul, who’s the best point guard in the world, saying I should be an All-Star, and other coaches and players coming up to me and saying I should be an All-Star, it’s an unbelievable compliment.

The amygdala is like a point guard in the emotional part of your middle brain. When it is overwhelmed, it hijacks you away from being able to access your upper rational brain and think and assess what to do. It essentially disables your ability to think.

When you’re a point guard, man, if you’re not up to par, you’re in a lot of trouble.

A point guard can carry a team – if he has all the right stuff.

I think I can score. But personally, I like to pass first, because people love people who pass. And I’m a point guard, so my job is to kind of get people open.

I’ve always been a point guard, so being a coach on the floor, I’ve had to connect with every one of my teammates and find ways to motivate them, find ways to build them up.

I’m not going to be the guy that says, ‘I’m the new point guard, look at me, look at me, put me on billboards and sell my jersey.’ I’m not going to be him. I’m going to do my job.

Being 6’7′ as a point guard and playing with Sam Cassell and Cuttino Mobley on the Clippers really helped refine my post game and play with my back to the basket.

I’m not trying to get back on a team, but I have tried to stay in shape just in case a team needs a point guard. A championship team. I wouldn’t go to any other team.

It’s good to know you have a pass-first point guard who will make the right plays.

Point guard is like the quarterback. It’s an IQ-judgment position. The great ones are not about themselves. They’re about the others.

You don’t want to be the selfish point guard. You want to be the guy that gets everybody open, that makes plays, and see the ball move before it goes in.

I think I’m a shooting guard and a point guard, to be honest with you.

I expected to be a pretty good NBA point guard and hopefully win a championship. But MVP and all this stuff? Not really.

Every rookie that thought they was good, I went at them to make sure they knew I was the best point guard in the league, and they had to go through me. That’s just the way I was.

It’s hard to be the point guard, especially playing with a young team.

It used to be every single time you got the rebound, you handed it to the point guard, or you outlet it to the point guard, or everyone cleared, and you waited until the point guard brought the ball up the floor.

I’m never going to be a point guard, but you always have guards that get the rebound and take it coast-to-coast.

We’re looking at the court as X’s and O’s and plays that can happen, two three steps ahead of time. That’s what the best point guards do. As you grow into a point guard that’s what you learn, and eventually, you tend to grasp that.