149 Quotes by Gary Payton

The simple fact is back in the day when (guard) Alvin Robertson and (guard) Derek Harper were guarding you, they could hand-check you and do everything else and you had to shoot over them. They were making it tough for you. You had to earn everything.

They've got a legit team. You can't go in there and say it's a win. You've got to take those guys seriously now.

A lot of guys are stepping up, a lot of things are happening for us that are good. Everybody's stepping in and playing their roles, so all we think about is winning right now. We're starting to jell a little bit.

This is what we're supposed to be here for. We're supposed to step up for things like this.

They're athletic and young and they're all freewheeling. They're playing really loose, so it's going to be a good challenge.

They're all athletic and young and they're all free willing. They (Chicago) are playing really loose. It's going to be a good challenge. We're going to have Shaq back in there and all of us playing on the same page with everybody back.

It's all about mentality. We play these teams four or five times a year anyway, so we just need to not do the things that caused us to lose to them in the regular season.

It's him. He brought his system here, and he wanted us to run. Most of the guys on this team want to run.

It's got to be up to Shaq. If he hits the boards like that with us, we're going to win a lot of basketball games.