Fred VanVleet Quotes

Fred VanVleet

Profession : Basketball Player

Birth : February 25, 1994

There's so many stories about guys who made it to the NBA without the draft. Overseas, whatever, call-ups.

Fred VanVleet

At the end of the day, winning games is the only thing that matters.

Fred VanVleet

I have to be able to want more and still be hungry for more. And winning a championship doesn't stop that.

Fred VanVleet

That's what makes it so hard to do, it's the most sought-after goal in our game, in the world of basketball, is winning an NBA championship. It's the hardest thing to do. So we did it. And now the fun part is to try to go do it again.

Fred VanVleet

I just try to work hard, be humble, go out there, lay it on the line every night for the team and, you know, whatever comes my way after that, I'll take it. But I definitely think very highly of myself, in my own head.

Fred VanVleet

I mean, I was one of the best college players in my four years.

Fred VanVleet

I didn't have the front office telling the coaches to play me. I wasn't even signed to a big agency. I didn't have agencies reaching out to reporters on my behalf. And that's the stuff that plays a part in the business of the game, and I didn't have an equal opportunity, until I got my feet in the door. And then I did the rest by myself.

Fred VanVleet

Nothing was given to me. That's what I take pride in.

Fred VanVleet

Early as I can remember, I was always next to the coaches trying to pick their brains and just learn how to be the best at the craft.

Fred VanVleet

I've been one my whole life. With my family I'm a leader; in sports. I'm not perfect but it's just something that's been natural to me since I was a little boy.

Fred VanVleet

My emotions weren't always directed in the best way.

Fred VanVleet

I want to win all the awards. I want to be All-Defensive Those are all goals that I have.

Fred VanVleet

I've always been a coach's player in terms of I am trying to do what they want us to do. I just kind of do what they want us to do. I am buying in, I believe in what they are preaching and what they are selling and he gives me the freedom and reign to kind of create and do my own thing.

Fred VanVleet

All of the individual accolades that you could ever think of - though I don't really share those publicly because that's not what I'm into - but I've got a lot on the table that I want to get done.

Fred VanVleet

That feeling of winning a championship, it trumps anything I've ever done in my life, in my career. Besides my kids, that's right up there, as far as personal journeys and accomplishments that you can make.

Fred VanVleet

My whole mind-set growing up was that I was not going to let myself be one of those Rockford people who didn't pan out. And I carried that chip with me to college - that I need to be that one who actually breaks the stigma.

Fred VanVleet

I felt like I'd been burned or that everybody owed me something.

Fred VanVleet

There's no opportunity in Rockford, so if you stay there, you don't see the world as very big.

Fred VanVleet

They're always telling us, 'Rockford is a miserable place to live. There's not a lot of talent coming out of Rockford.' Blah, blah, blah. You know the rest of the story. I look at it like there's only two things you can do about it. You can live up to it and make it worse or you can change it and make it better.

Fred VanVleet

I hate wearing mouthpieces.

Fred VanVleet