Kevin Garnett Quotes

The last couple of practices, all we've been doing is a lot of defensive things. We've been going over some drills that make all of us have to communicate.

I can't control if people like me; I can't control if people like my game.

I have a problem sometimes with being too hyper.

I'm not a star, man. If a guy came in here and shot you and shot me, we'd both be two dead people. You understand?

Too much coffee. Too much coffee and Gatorade. It's a hell of a mix. If you're ever tired in the morning, just try that mix, and tell me what you think.

I'm like Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. If I'm not ready, the sled isn't going to go.

I don't think anything less than perfect, even though I'm a human being. The way I work and go at things is to better myself in perfect terms.

~if you don't like someone for who they are but what they are then why like them at all

This is it. It's for all the marbles. I'm sitting in the house loading up the pump, I'm loading up the Uzis, I've got a couple of M-16s, couple of nines, couple of joints with some silencers on them, couple of grenades, got a missile launcher. I'm ready for war.

It's scary when one day the city is there and the next day it's gone. To see the water actual kill people, I couldn't believe it. I never fathomed it could bury a city.

They say no matter how hard you work, there's always someone, somewhere working harder then you. Guess what.. I'm that someone

Performance is something we all strive to be better at. I'm no different than that. Who wants to look bad?

So you're dealing with a coach, and you're dealing with a guy who's actually experienced NBA basketball from a player's perspective and actually goes about it that way.

I'm not someone who is going to give in to a lot of pressure. I've always understood that everything is not always going to be good.

The beautiful thing about when you go through a slide is that you learn from it. Not just saying that you learn from it, but applying the things that you have learned.

I don't play to sweat, I play to win.

Sometimes when I hear commentating, it's sickening. People who never played the game, people who never played in the league have an opinion, and that's all it is. You are here to educate the watcher or the viewer. Sometimes it comes off as personal.

I learned one thing - never hate a positive option.

Flip's a player's coach, and I do know one thing, he motivates better than anybody I know. His system is very oriented around the point guard. He and Steph (Marbury) had a great relationship when Steph was in Minnesota.

So we take a lot of pride in that. It's really on us to turn this thing around. I think this last month we've done just that. We've pointed ourself in the direction that we want to be, and I think we're starting to head towards that. Right now we're in a nice rhythm.

Some of my friends snowmobile. I'm a little scared of it.

This ain't the Girl Scouts. This ain't the Boy Scouts. This is the NBA.

The competition, the naysayers, the owners who talk too much. The people who don't think a 36-year-old can do what I do. I take a lot of pride in my craft, I work really hard at my craft everyday, and I'm a true professional.

Going from Flip to Kev, obviously you don't want to see someone ever lose their job. For me it's probably a little more difficult, because other than Bill Blair, Flip is all I knew.

Coaching takes patience.

I've never been an individual guy. I never cared about the accolades. I've always been driven by the competition and the learning process.

Coaching takes patience. I'm more enthused when teaching players who want it versus when I have to.

They're really aggressive. They're like roaches on bread - you drop some on the floor and, boom, they're on it.

'Modern Warfare,' 'Black Ops,' these are all the next level of video games. The people are more detailed, the fighting is more exact, and I can't speak for every gamer out there, but I know when I play, I feel like I'm actually in the game. It's that intense.

At the end of the day, you're responsible for yourself and your actions and that's all you can control. So rather than be frustrated with what you can't control, try to fix the things you can.