Pau Gasol Quotes

Making the playoffs three consecutive seasons is a great accomplishment.

We have a great friendship that I hope will last our entire lives.

I'm not a person or a selfish player, but we have to move the ball more, and we have to look further the team game, because we have enough talent to use different players.

When it comes to playoff time, I pull the energy and the motivation.

I may not be the most physical player, that's not my nature. But I am a competitor and I play as hard as I can.

I'm not the number-one guy here ... if it translates to winning, I don't mind taking a step back as far as roles.

In-N-Out is incredible, but don't tell coach I've been going there. He would flip out and put some curse on me.

I take losses very personal and very serious.

No one could have prepared for me BBQ on pizza. I mean, both are great. But together? It was incredible.

You never know when it is your last game or your last tournament,

It doesn't matter what you've done, but what you're going to do the next game, and that's what I'm focused on.

I want to keep playing at the kind of level where I'll get respect from everybody.

I don't settle. That's how I am.

I want to be on the floor. I want to fight for the win.

If our minds and hearts are into it, we can be a heck of a team. We can beat anybody.

I try to look at what KG does, what Tim Duncan does, what Amare Stoudamire does ... I compare and evaluate myself with them.

I want to continue to expand my game a little more, build my body and work on staying strong so I can play the way I've been playing, and holding my ground the way I've been holding my ground.

I like the fact people consider me unique, one of a kind.

I won't forget the hood. I won't forget the days of catching a bullet on the way to the mailbox or bricks with death threats that somehow made their way through the window.