Top 50 Brandon Ingram Quotes

There is always going to be another game and another day.

I’m just kind of laidback and reserved.

When I go on the basketball court, I don’t think about who’s guarding me.

That’s all I seek every practice and every game, to progress in some way, be coachable and try to be the best I can be for my teammates.

I feel like I’m a competitor. I hate to lose.

My great aunt raised me for about four or five years. Something I took from her was a quote: ‘Fear of suffering is far worse than suffering itself.’ I actually have that tattooed on the back of my arm.

I don’t like video games.

In the two years that I’ve been in the NBA, I don’t think I’ve played to my ability.

My motivation is to be the best I can be.

I try to take whatever the defense gives me, have a sense of urgency, know who’s guarding me and pick my spots, get my teammates involved and also attack the rim.

I just want to be better. Of course, I’m not satisfied… I’m just pushing every day.

I grew up being a Kobe fan, of course.

I always see Lonzo dancing on social media.

I like to play my game. I don’t want to do anything out of control, out of nature.

I’ve always been a shooter.

LeBron’s always like this: steady. Steady all the time. He’s never forcing anything.

I’m not the most vocal guy, but I try to lead by example every single day with how I work.

I’ve always been an underrated passer.

I think if you can score the ball, you can play at any level.

Even Coach K thinks he can be a better coach each and every day.

I think I’m a good enough ball handler to bring the ball up the basketball court, and my teammates do a great job of getting open.

It was fun getting my feet wet on an NBA floor.

Individually, yeah, I want to be the best version of me. But I want to make everyone else feel comfortable on the floor where they can go out there and they are just playing their game. That’s when I’m the happiest, when every guy on the floor is just being that.

I always to try block everything out, good or bad. I always hope to keep receiving blessings, to have faith, because you know, there’s a time to block everything out and just work on your craft, work on everything that you desire to get, desire to want.

When you want to play basketball and you get paid for playing basketball, you want to do it every single day. So I don’t think I’ll get tired of doing it.

I just love playing basketball, so it’s good being in the gym.

When I play my hardest, I feel like I’m one of the best on the floor.

Coach K tried to implement a style where we passing, moving the ball, the open guy gets the open shot, running in transition.

I might do a hobby or go to the movies, but everything comes back to basketball.

I definitely want to show that I’m going to be a reliable guy to put in the work.

I try to make a name off someone before they make a name off me.

I think I can do everything on the basketball floor. I just gotta be consistent in what I do.

I can shoot the basketball, I can get to the basket.

You’re always becoming; you’ve never arrived. And I use that day by day just for me to work hard each and every day, and know that no matter how good I worked out today, no matter how good I thought I was today, I can always get better and always be a better person.

It’s important for me to be aggressive and not defer.

I want to be versatile.

Don’t take for granted things.

I like George Gervin a lot, even as a guy that played a long time ago.

Seeing bigger guys doesn’t scare me at all. It just makes me want to compete against those guys. Bigger or smaller guys – it doesn’t matter.

I seen my dad work for like 16, 17 hours a day.

We try not to worry about our opponent. We try to worry about ourselves.

Work hard, work away from the game, work when no one’s looking, and just knowing that it’s a process. Everything will come at the right time.

I was always around basketball, from when I was four or five years old.

It’s OK to be hard on yourself, just know you have another chance to go out and prove yourself again.

Of course my goal at Duke was to win the national championship, but we were shorthanded, and lost one of our big guys that was very important to the team. By the end of the season we only played about six guys. But we tried our hardest and did our best and overall had a successful season.

When I’m aggressive, all the other guys are aggressive, and somehow that’s how we win games.

I don’t do anything else but play basketball.

It’s all about dressing how you feel.

I grew up playing bigger guys all my life, so it’s nothing different.

When I draw defenders into the lane, it’s easy for me to kick it out.