114 Quotes by Kirk Hinrich

Our goal is to be the highest seed that we can. That is our motivation to move up. We have a shot to finish .500 for the season and improve our seeding. We have a lot to play for.

Our bench gave us a big lift, which really helped with all the games we've played recently.

Our close-outs have been bad. We haven't been making the second and third efforts that we normally make.

It hasn't gotten to the point where it was like my rookie year, where we were getting booed every game, but it's definitely something we have to correct. It's just something we haven't done. We have to play a lot better on the home court -- that's the bottom line.

That was definitely needed for this team. He was playing like Tyson can, getting rebounds, playing defense and scoring some points.

I would hear about all the stories in Phoenix. Some guys said Scott's real hard. Some guys said you're going to love Scott. I didn't know what to expect.

We just can't dig holes for ourselves like that. We spend all our energy trying to get back in the game. We've got to stay in the game. We're not playing a full game -- we're just playing in stretches right now.

We just became stagnant. We stopped moving the ball, and the hole shrunk up on us.

We were two totally different teams out there from the first half to the second half. We fought hard and got back into it.