Serge Ibaka Quotes

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Serge Ibaka

Profession : Athlete

Birth : September 18, 1989

Mentally, starting the game versus coming off the bench, there are different vibes.

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I've said that before: I believe in God. With God, anything is possible.

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I will never forget where I come from, and my journey to becoming an NBA Champion has been hard to believe.

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When you play in the NBA, everybody wants to play in the All-Star Game. I really want to.

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The most difficult thing with a new shot is if you go two or three games without making it, or you struggle, and people start saying, 'You can't shoot 3s,' or, 'Why do you shoot 3s?'

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I've been learning when to block shots against who I'm playing. I'm not just going to leave a shooter to go block shots.

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I always put in the work.

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You need to love to play defense.

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Not all players want to play defense. You get in foul trouble, you're going to be on the bench.

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At first, I wanted to be a good player in the NBA. When I get to a team where you have one of the two best scorers in the league, I just said to myself that I needed to do something. I need to do something to help my team, something to make my name. That's where I started to focus on defense.

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Money will not make you happy. It's most important that you need to be happy. You need to do something you want to do.

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Whatever it takes to help the team to get wins, I'm going to do it.

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I love this game. When I step on the court I'm going to compete. That's one of the reasons I work hard every day.

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To know how I am very important to my team on defense, how my teammates need me on defense, it means a lot to me.

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It's always pressure in sport. It was a lot of pressure since Day 1 in Orlando, and it's going to be always pressure, but I think those pressures make us better.

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Without pressure, I'm not going to wake up every day to go work, or do extra shooting, or lifting.

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Most of the time when you're open that's when it's tough to make shots because you try to get some different focus than normally when some guys try to contest your shots.

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It's life, man, and life is never easy.

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In life, sometimes you are up and sometimes you are down.

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I come from zero and I've had to push myself up to where I am today. I'm not going to give up and I'm going to keep pushing.

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