Toni Kukoc Quotes

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Toni Kukoc

Profession : Athlete

Birth : September 18, 1968

Sometimes in my mind I have a picture of something happening, and because the foot is not right it is harder to happen. I see the ball and I can see myself intercepting it or rebounding or doing this stuff, and it's just not there. There's not the movement or explosiveness.

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I'm disappointed anytime I don't play well.

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Those two months I didn't play didn't help me. But injuries are a part of basketball.

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It was always a dream to come to the NBA.

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I've always said that besides the NBA, the Yugoslavian league and a Russian league were the best basketball leagues in the world.

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Someone can tell you something a million times, but if you don't know what they're talking about, it's hard to adjust and even more difficult to become a believer.

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It's easy. You just shoot the ball and then hope it's going to go in.

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Everybody knows the NBA is the top of basketball in the world. The game here is more hard, more physical, faster than in Europe.

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My biggest reason for coming is to prove to myself that I can play in the NBA.

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War is not game. If you lose, you can be mad or sad two or three days. War makes you sad every day, every minute.

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Michael may be the biggest player in the N.B.A., but he's not the N.B.A.

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It is a much bigger thing to have a world championship with Chicago than this one in Italy.

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When you reach triple-double, you know you were involved in every part of the game.

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When the confidence builds it is easier for the player to come into the next game.

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I know that three months before the season is not enough to become a good NBA player, but it's a start.

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There is nothing personal between Pippen and me.

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There's a lot of things in my life that are more important I have to think about than what someone puts in the newspaper, or says on TV.

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I can pass the ball pretty well.

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When I step on the court, it's not just my shot, I'm trying to get better in all aspects of the game, defense, rebounding.

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I have got to stay aggressive. When I have a shot, I have to take that shot.

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