144 Quotes by Jason Kidd

A lot of late nights in the gym, a lot of early mornings, especially when your friends are going out, you're going to the gym, those are the sacrifices that you have to make if you want to be an NBA basketball player.

We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees.

I think we're going in the right direction.

My biggest fear had always been getting hurt, and not being able to leave the game as a player on my own terms.

I'm a football guy at heart; maybe I should have played football for a living instead, because I play a lot of football videogames, I'm really into them.

I came in the league as not a shooter, not a scorer. My game was to play defense and make my teammates better. The most important stat to me was that left column - winning. Nothing else matters.

When I was a little kid I used to play with guys twice my age, so, I was the last one picked, so if I picked I knew that I had to get the ball to the scorer if I wanted to stay on the court, so that was pretty much my job.

The business always gets in the way of basketball.

There's always room for improvement. We have a nucleus that's pretty good. You want players that will help.