Joe Harris Quotes

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Joe Harris

Profession : Athlete

Birth : September 6, 1991

They have great restaurants, good nightlife. Everything is here in Brooklyn that you can possibly want.

Joe Harris

My hometown, first and foremost, it's one of the most beautiful places I've ever seen. A beautiful lake town. It's one of those communities where, winter rolls around, it's exactly the same as any other small town in America. Sort of a lower socio-economic area. There isn't anything high-end necessarily anywhere around there.

Joe Harris

A lot of Washington state is beautiful. You have just tons of mountains, beautiful bodies of water, you have a lot of rolling hills in eastern Washington. I'm biased, obviously, but there's not a lot of places in the world that are like where I grew up.

Joe Harris

Yeah, I think any time you're comfortable playing within a system you're going to play more aggressive. You're going to play with more confidence.

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I feel like I take a lot of pride in the patience that I play with.

Joe Harris

Kyrie, he's got a big personality. He's one of these guys that's misunderstood. The way that he's construed in the media is probably going to paint him in a light that is not necessarily true. I'd say you could ask a lot of people that played with him and they'd all say that he's a great teammate and a good guy to be around.

Joe Harris

None of us are perfect all the time.

Joe Harris

We're all going to have ups and downs throughout the course of the season.

Joe Harris

I think going to Virginia and playing in that program, you definitely take a lot of ownership in the fact of possessions and understanding the value of each possession. And that goes on both ends. Trying to be as efficient as possible on the offensive end, and not turn the ball over. But then defensively, making everything tough.

Joe Harris

Some nights, depending on who you're going up against, some guys are just capable of hitting tough shots.

Joe Harris

Yeah, I had a good relationship with Coach Blatt. I enjoyed playing for him. But the NBA is, first and foremost, a business, and as much as you may have liked the situation you were at, sometimes it just doesn't work out your way.

Joe Harris

There's not a lot of guys in the NBA who stick with one team for very long.

Joe Harris

I've kind of given up trying to evaluate college guys, especially guys from Virginia, just because of my bias.

Joe Harris

I like this book by Angela Duckworth called 'Grit.'

Joe Harris

My grandparents owned an apple orchard when I was growing up - a lot of apples, cherries... now, actually, a lot of grapes, too, to be honest.

Joe Harris

I've been No. 12 my entire career. My cousin Nikki Haerling was a good basketball player, she wore No. 12 in high school and college, and my dad, he was No. 12 as well. I actually just started wearing it when I got to high school my freshman year.

Joe Harris

Obviously playing on a team like the Cavs in 2014, they were championship contenders, not allowing a ton of young guys to come in and play through mistakes. If you weren't helping the team have success you weren't really afforded a lot of different opportunities.

Joe Harris

I grew up in the Northwest, so I was always a really big Sonics fan. I loved Gary Payton, Shawn Kemp, a lot of those players who were really good through the '90s.

Joe Harris

I was lucky in my rookie year to play in the NBA Finals, to have that experience, to see what it was like to get to that stage.

Joe Harris

Some rookies build bad habits and it's not until year three, four, five that they get to be part of a winning-type organization and culture.

Joe Harris