Harrison Barnes Quotes

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Most bigs aren't used to guarding out on the perimeter.

Most bigs aren’t used to guarding out on the perimeter.
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I’ve been very fortunate throughout my life with a number of opportunities, a number of great people that have helped me be in the position that I am today to be an NBA basketball player and to be living out my dream.
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You want to know what you do best.
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I remember throughout middle school and high school how excited my mom, sister and I would be when a UNC game was on TV. It was required viewing.
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Basketball is my first love, but it’s not my only one.
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I think as I’ve gotten older, I’ve realized the more important details. Yes, you’re going to make money. Yes, you’re going to do all these other things, but playing the game that you love every single day, that’s the most important thing to me.
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As a player, you always want to know what you can do. At the end of your career, you can look back and say, look, I was able to get this much out of my playing career and I was able to become this type of player. I think that’s what allows you to sleep well at night.
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Kerr is great, but I started my career under Mark Jackson, so there’s no hard feelings there.
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You have to commend the players who‘ve stepped up and used their voice, who’ve been courageous, and when it came to Colin Kaepernick, had to sacrifice tremendously to get their point across.
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As we know, one of the dark sides of social media is online harassment.
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I think Basketball Without Borders is huge just because of the platform that basketball is.
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At the end of the day, you have to win games.
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At Carolina, I was surrounded by great players, and we felt like we were one of the more talented teams in the country. My job was to score. In the NBA, it’s different.
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I’ve grown in maturity because I understood from an intellectual standpoint how serious Covid-19 is and all the effects it was having on our society.
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At the end of the day, you’re a person before you are a basketball player.
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If someone hit you in the face 7 times, you’re not just going to smile on the eighth.
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You know, when we talk about leadership – in sports, politics, business – we talk a lot about success but not a whole lot about failure.
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It’s hard when you get the ball in an iso situation and you have a set defense in front of you. Very few players in the league can do that.
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If you’re guarding a guy like Carmelo, obviously you have to stay close to him because he can get hot.
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I think how you dress says a lot about how you carry yourself.
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I think if anybody has an opportunity to play professional basketball, to not transcend that into off-the-court endeavors is really a waste.
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I love the Bay Area.
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I was just a kid from Ames.
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My goal from an early age was always to play in the NBA.
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I’ve improved my ballhandling.
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When I got to the Bay Area, everyone was talking about ‘Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley,’ so I just wanted to go and learn more about it.
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For as long as I could remember, I’ve wanted to play basketball at the University of North Carolina. Funny thing is, there was a long period of time when I wasn’t sure how much they wanted me.
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My sister-in-law actually lives in Johannesburg with her husband.
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Basketball is such a good platform to be able to have a real impact on kids. We don’t have all the answers, but we can tell kids the importance of asking questions and working hard. Maybe they go to their teacher and ask questions because their favorite player told them it was a good thing to do.
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If you mess around, and you don’t take every game as seriously as possible, there’s going to be a time you get to the Finals and say look, ‘We’re not sharp right now.’ At that point, there’s nothing you can do.
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When you win a championship, you can’t always rely on that for the rest of your life. You want to try to go out there and win a better one.
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I’ve been a role player on a championship team, and I’ve learned a lot from that.
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The longer you stay in college the better a brand you build.
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I always wanted to be on the same court as Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant.
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The relationship between police and African-Americans has probably always been strained.
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History is so deep, especially black history, so I have a lot to learn.
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You know, seeing the analytics explosion in the NBA. It wasn’t something I was really into in college but in the NBA everything is numbers and how you can be more efficient, so that led to me trying to make my body more efficient, and obviously Fitbit was at the top of the line for that so it made sense.
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It is pretty cool to see how quickly things can change.
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When you rebound, you’ve got to get some edge. You get some elbows early in the game, it kind of gets your blood flowing. Then you’re kind of just on edge, just aggressive from there.
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Interacting with different people who have different stories sparked my curiosity about what makes people not only good at what they do, but also good, period.
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Being in the NBA and able to connect with fans through social experiences is great.
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I love being around Dirk. Off the court, he is hilarious. Like, one of the funniest dudes I’ve ever been around and I don’t think people realize because, you know, they see him on the court as an absolute killer.
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Anytime you have opportunities to spread the game of basketball, it is a big thing.
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Putting on that powder blue uniform was truly a dream come true for me and my family. Because I was so personally connected to UNC basketball, I had a particular understanding of what responsibilities came with the opportunity that was presented to me.
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When I was growing up I spent a lot of time at the Boys and Girls Club so I try to partner a lot with them to promote reading in the summers.
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The NBA is a business.
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I’m in the gym every single day.
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I am drawn to leaders who set out to make positive changes in their communities.
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I feel like if you start letting other people dictate how you’re going to play the game, you shouldn’t play the game. That’s just that simple.
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I realize I got to where I am because people took the time to invest in me and make sacrifices and hopefully I can pay that forward and try to my part to help somebody else.
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This is the NBA, so there’s basketball and then there’s business.
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There’s going to be a time when the ball stops bouncing and you have to move on to something different, whatever that is.
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People assume that just because you get paid a lot of money and have a lot of attention that all of the sudden you’re guaranteed this many shots. I have to prove that every day in practice.
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Ever since I was a kid – growing up in a small town in Iowa, going to Chapel Hill for college and then to the Bay Area – I’ve been interested in how communities come together to solve their differences. And I’ve always been drawn to politics and social change.
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Growing up, I used to go to the Fred Hoiberg camp all the time. I used to have so much fun there – just me and my friends going to these camps, having fun playing around.
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Since I was the No. 1 recruit I heard a lot of similar stuff like that, LeBron James comparisons. You definitely have to respect what he’s accomplished in this league.
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Staying low, not dipping the basketball, being efficient on my jabs and movementspaying attention to these things helped me grow and made me the player I wanted to be.
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Food accessibility is a health crisis that has always affected underserved communities.
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I didn’t have cable growing up. The only games I saw were the NBA on Sundays and the NBA Finals.
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I think winning a championship, for me, it put things in perspective. You can either be a great player on a so-so team, or you can be a role player on a championship team, or, in an extreme case, a great player on a championship team.
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