Joe Harris Quotes

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Joe Harris

Profession : Athlete

Birth : September 6, 1991

I just love basketball.

Joe Harris

Everybody has a different path to making it in this league. I was fortunate to get an opportunity here in Brooklyn.

Joe Harris

The NBA is a difficult thing because the head coaches, they definitely have one of the more difficult jobs and one of the jobs with, I guess, little amount of security as possible. There's so much turnover all the time.

Joe Harris

I think at the end of the day, regardless of who you're playing against, there's talent on every single team in the NBA.

Joe Harris

You don't look through the NBA schedule and say, 'this is going to be an easy night.'

Joe Harris

My parents have always told me it's better to write your goals out because then you can look at them every day. You're constantly reminded.

Joe Harris

I've grown up with the same people my whole life. I've had the same classmates from elementary all the way through graduating.

Joe Harris

I mean, I don't hate attention. I don't embrace it or like it a whole lot.

Joe Harris

It was like a brother-sister type relationship with all of my cousins. Growing up we were always hanging out together. We all kind of looked after each other like brothers and sisters when we went to school and stuff.

Joe Harris

I was so competitive when I played. I was trying to get every loose ball, trying to get steals. That's what I was kind of infamous for in high school.

Joe Harris

I was fortunate in college to play as a freshman, but in the NBA, not a lot of rookies are coming in and making a significant impact right off the bat.

Joe Harris

Kyrie is a good guy. Spent a lot of time with him over the years because we were the same class in high school and ACC when he was at Duke. Then I was with him my rookie year in Cleveland.

Joe Harris

If I ever got into trouble with my sisters or was slacking off, it was always my punishment that I couldn't go to a practice or a game. That was the worst thing in the world.

Joe Harris

I liked the idea of being one of the foundations for Coach Bennett's program and trying to revive UVa basketball.

Joe Harris

I miss UVA and Charlottesville a lot but not so much of going to class.

Joe Harris

I keep in touch with all the guys that I was training with in Chicago during the pre-draft process; Nik Stauskas, Mitch McGary, Adrien Payne, and Dougie McDermott. We all got pretty close training together and we just keep tabs every now and then.

Joe Harris

If someone has my number that I don't know and texts me a considerable amount I would just block the number.

Joe Harris

To actually play a game, where you are in the World Cup, there is significance to it, the point differential matters, all these things kind of add up.

Joe Harris

Shooting's contagious: Guys start seeing the ball go in and everybody starts to feel good.

Joe Harris

When you have guards that are versatile, it just makes it a lot easier in terms of who you put on the court.

Joe Harris