Rodney Hood Quotes

Rodney Hood

Profession : Basketball Player

Birth : October 20, 1992

Being a young player coming into the league, all you really want is an opportunity.

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Dennis Lindsey and Coach Snyder gave me an opportunity to really show what I can do, and progress into the player I am now, and the player I'll be in the future. I'm forever grateful.

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Me, I'm not a guy who's dealt with a lot of death in my life, so when it hits you, it hits hard, you question different things.

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I know what I bring to the table: my ability to shoot the ball, defend multiple positions, play multiple positions, two through the four.

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I'm happy to be back out on the court. Whatever role that I'll be in and whatever minutes that I get, I'm just grateful to be playing a game I love again.

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Part of life is dying and you just have to pick up where you left off.

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I've got to be strong for my family. I've got to be strong for my kids and everybody.

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Not many young guys in the league are getting to play valuable minutes for a really good team, so I'm trying to take advantage of it as much as I can.

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Ever since I was little, I always played point guard. All throughout high school, junior high. I hit a couple growth spurts and the guard thing just always stayed with me. It just comes natural.

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Everybody says Jalen Rose is somebody I have to watch, even though he's a little older than me. It started back in high school. Everybody called me 'Little Jalen.'

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There aren't too many left-handed guys out there who can handle the ball and shoot it.

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Seven-thirty to five, every single day. Getting up, eating breakfast, lifting weights, going outside on the turf, doing movement and agilities and things like that. Then I take a little break to eat lunch and come back to work out again.

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I play better when guys depend on me.

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If I was going to start over, then I wanted to go somewhere I could get better and win and see if I was a really good player. That's why I came to Duke.

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It becomes second nature, you know when it comes to life or death and loved ones leaving, having to be there for your family, not just emotionally, but financially or physically.

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I don't mean to get dark again, but my grandfather has been battling terminal illness. And you know, he never complains. And he has a lot of reasons to complain, but he never complains. And he lost his son a long time ago, when I was a young boy - my uncle. And he never complained.

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I'm trying to win a ring and that's what it's about.

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It's extremely tough, going day-to-day, not knowing really what you're working for, but for me, I just learned how to set small goals for myself.

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A lot of times in our jobs, we go day-to-day, we're in a routine, we sometimes become robots.

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Life is not promised forever. That's the biggest thing that I learned and I enjoy and I will take with me past this pandemic, is just being able to appreciate every little thing that goes on.

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