Best Guards Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“Point guards, some of them they like to play offense and defensively they aren't doing too much and they don't need it.”

“I can play almost with everyone. Because it's not easy to play with all these guys. Some of them were at the same position, but we made it work because we sacrificed. That year in O.K.C. we had three point guards, but we made it work somehow.”

“My parents put cleats and shin guards on me as soon as I could remember.”

“I keep telling the guards just play off me. I'm going to try to make the right read always and get you guys open.”

“Holding the ball in your hand is creating opportunities for other players. That's what I want to do, that's what I want to get better on - passing, just creating opportunities for guards, whoever is on the court.”

“I can pop, I can roll, I can do different things. And sometimes guards are not used to having a big man who can do all those things.”

“Most guards and forwards don't really know how to play with their back to the hoop. It's more and more an outside game.”

“When you open up the court, now the point guards can see, they can score, and they're not afraid to take shots. Before it was like, 'No, don't take that shot. That's a bad shot. Pound it inside. Pound it inside.' And the philosophy has gone a little bit away from that, because it makes sense to do it the other way.”

“I'm overweight and over 40. I usually play nurses and prison guards.”

“Horse Guards is my favourite building in London.”

“Most coaches are mostly small guards because they think guards have more knowledge.”

“Obviously I think offensively, spacing for me as a guy that puts a lot of pressure on the rim is going to make it harder on a defense. They're going to have to make tougher decisions, and space is going to be way more open for all the guards, too.”

“I don't think you negotiate with people by going around telling them that they're like Nazi guards or it's all about prosecco.”

“I want to be one of those point guards who knock down shots you have to get over the top.”

“There were no artists in Ossining, which was the home of Sing Sing prison. Most of the parents of the guys I knew were guards there.”

“A lot of bigs handle the ball, and be versatile, and they're able to make plays. So they can relieve stress off the guards.”

“There are a lot of great point guards in the NBA.”

“I think guards need to be able to have a post up in their game when mismatches happen and I think post players need to have an outside game, and that's something I've always worked on.”

“You can ask all the best players in the NBA - there's not one player in the NBA that guards them like me.”

“There's tons of point guards in this league. There's good point guards on bad teams.”

“The Suns keep great point guards here.”

“I measure myself against everybody, not just the shooting guards.”

“In prison, you're issued a number of sanitary pads per month. And many times, even when you're issued a number of sanitary pads, the guards will just come in and rip your room apart, rip your locker apart and take them.”

“I mean I constantly had security guards around me when I was younger and I wasn't allowed to go to the mall with a lot of my friends and stuff like that. And so, when I finally was able to sneak out, I would just really, really take it to the next level.”

“I just love playing with point guards with high Iqs.”

“When you're playing a good team, not too many point guards want to go one on one. When you're playing a not-so-good team, teams that are fighting to make the playoffs, guys are going to want to try and get their own. It's just a different read of each team.”

“If you look at all the great shot-blockers of all time, they had length, and they had instincts. Even when you look at guards, like Dwyane Wade. He's one of the best shot-blocking guards ever, and he has great instincts. He's kind of cat-like.”

“I played for some of the best guys to ever coach this game, a bunch of Hall of Famers, and I've stolen from them, the same way I've stolen from the great point guards in the past.”

“I'm one of those people who fiercely guards their privacy, so I hate doing interviews.”

“We've got to understand that the whole nature of the way American democracy guards its freedom has been changed.”

“We've had to be escorted out of venues, things like that. We get security guards now.”

“Point guards love it when a guy can pick and pop and make a shot and make threes.”

“Leaders today are isolated by phalanxes of body guards. It's profoundly undemocratic, the way they have used terrorism as a means to protect themselves.”

“I can't even go to the mall anymore. I have to bring 17 security guards... or it feels like it.”

“Having played in the league during the '80s, '90s, and the new millennium (old, I know), I had the chance to see firsthand how the best point guards of our time played the game.”

“I used to watch big guards and how they handled the ball and made plays. Guys like Joe Johnson.”

“Forwards are either too tall, and I'm too quick for them, or guards are too small, and I shoot over them.”

“I think we should let our guards down a little bit more.”

“I have the habit of always saying thank you to police and guards who watch us.”

“Sam Jones and I, neither one of us were point guards, but we played the backcourt a lot together because we were basketball players.”

“I think people let their guards down when they think that they're not being intimidated or they're not being threatened.”

“It was actually a very nice little book done by a gift book company. They illustrated it with pictures from 1920s football, before there were face guards.”

“I don't want security guards. I don't think security guards are particularly good for your writing.”

“Every matchup is very important regardless of who the bigs are, who the guards are.”

“The point guards that I like are the ones that are playing like point guards.”

“When I played with the Knicks, I was just as important or just as smart as any other of the guards I played with. I still had to call out plays, notice schemes, know the systems, do everything they had to do.”

“I want to be one of the best point guards to ever play.”