Quotes by Marcus Smart - Page 2

With the years I've had with U.S.A. Basketball, my loyalty, their loyalty to me with always asking me to come back, that's incredible.
Marcus Smart /
Loyalty
Me Always Back
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I'm a reflection of my mom, my brothers and everyone in my family. How I carry myself is a reflection of how they raised me. I've learned that.
Marcus Smart /
Reflection
Family Mom Myself
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To be honest, I'm worth more than 12-14 million. Just for the things I do on the court that don't show up on the stat sheet. You don't find guys like that.
Marcus Smart /
Find More Things
Sheet
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I love reflexology - it's amazing. As a person whose career is on my feet, it relaxes me and keeps me healthy and helps me do those long hours on the court.
Marcus Smart /
Long Hours
Love Amazing Me
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I could've easily let the passing of my brother control how I live my life. But I was determined not to let him die in vain and to make a negative into a positive.
Marcus Smart /
Determined
Passing
Positive Life My Life
Positive Life Negative
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Make sure you're building your brand early and make sure it's a good brand so in life after basketball, you have an option and you have resources to help you with that.
Marcus Smart /
Option
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I am used to coming in second and then all of the sudden finishing in first because nobody expected me to do it. Kind of like David and Goliath, you know. I'm not the giant.
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Finishing
Goliath
I Am Me Nobody
Giant
Sudden
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You've got to want to play defence. Nobody really wants to play defence. It's boring. It sucks. You don't get the flashiness, the scores, the dunks. But you've got to have it.
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Defence
Nobody
Scores
Wants
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I had a lot of adversity that kind of tested my maturity and things I was able to learn from and were put in my way for a reason, to make me a mature person and more experienced person.
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Able
Adversity
Mature
Reason
Tested
Experienced
Learn
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The uniqueness about me is I don't do one thing perfectly or great. I do a little bit of everything. That's what makes me so unique. I'm just trying to master a little bit of everything.
Marcus Smart /
Uniqueness
Perfectly
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God has blessed me with an ability to go out there and play the game that I love to play. And I don't want to regret that. So, I feel I need to go out every day and play like it's my last.
Marcus Smart /
Regret
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I'm the youngest of four boys. My whole life I had to fight. I had to get down and do things in order to secure my spot in the household. So, coming onto the court, it's nothing different.
Marcus Smart /
Secure
Spot
Youngest
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I was always taught coming back from injuries the last thing you want to do is have a mental game going on with yourself and psyching yourself out and you just start thinking about the injury.
Marcus Smart /
Injuries
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I've always felt like a little bit of an underdog at each level - never the tallest or strongest or even fastest. But one thing I've always tried to do was to play harder than anyone on the court.
Marcus Smart /
Underdog
Fastest
Always Never Play
Tallest
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My time at Oklahoma State and in Stillwater has been amazing. I met some amazing people, got to play with some great guys and great teammates, and I built some strong relationships and bonds there.
Marcus Smart /
Amazing People
My Time
Oklahoma
Time Great Amazing
Teammates
Bonds
Met
Relationships
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My rookie year, I bought a new Range Rover, and, knowing what I know about traffic stops in this country, I made damn sure that the tint on the windows was legal. Somehow, though... I just kept getting pulled over for my tint.
Marcus Smart /
Legal
Country
Damn
Made
Range
Traffic
Sure
Bought
Year
Getting
Stops
Pulled
Rookie
Rover
Somehow
Though
Tint
Windows
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Off the court, I'm a totally different person. I've heard people be like, 'Oh, so sweet, like a big ole teddy bear.' But I guess I still have that look on my face in a game. I guess I still have a vibe where it's intimidating.
Marcus Smart /
Intimidating
Teddy
Bear
Ole
Vibe
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My whole life I've been the one to look myself in the mirror whenever everyone else is doubting me. I'm the one that had the most confidence in myself and I always betted on myself, and it's worked out for me each and every time.
Marcus Smart /
Life Time Myself
Doubting
Everyone Else
Mirror
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Everybody is responsible for their own actions. It's easy to point the finger at somebody else, but a real man, a real woman, a real person knows when it's time to take the blame and when to take responsibility for their own actions.
Marcus Smart /
Blame
Easy
Real
Real Person
Responsibility
Everybody
Person
Actions
Somebody
Man
Own
Woman
Take
Else
Finger
Point
Real Man
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Trying to guard Kawhi on an island by yourself is tough. You gotta take the basket away and push him to your help. You want him to take a contested shot as far away from the basket as possible, because his mid-range game is phenomenal.
Marcus Smart /
Far Away
Yourself Your Game
Basket
Contested
Island
Guard
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I think any player would tell you when you've got a coach that believes in you and you don't have to be looking over your shoulder after every play you do, and you can just go out and play, that's the coach you want to have on your team.
Marcus Smart /
Believes
Shoulder
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You understand what your eyes mean to you, but it's different when you have to go through something like I did, where it's a possibility you could have lost your eyesight. It puts things back into perspective for you and humbles you a little bit.
Marcus Smart /
Eyesight
Possibility
Puts
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I'm the youngest of four boys, and my oldest brother, Todd, was like a father figure to me. We were very close even though we were 23 years apart. When my parents were working, he was the one there for me. He was diagnosed with lung cancer when he was 15 years old.
Marcus Smart /
Father Figure
Me Father Parents
Diagnosed
Father Me Parents
Lung
Oldest
Todd
Youngest
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I look at basketball as like a storm. But it's the eye of the storm. The calmest place of it is to be right in the eye of it. And that's what basketball is for me; it's my eye. And while everything else around me is going on,' he continued, 'the destruction and things like that, basketball keeps me calm.
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Calm
Destruction
Storm
Everything Else
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When I got cleared by doctors and was coronavirus-free, one of the first things I did was get to marching in Boston. I wanted to join the people out there doing all they could to speak out against injustice and hatred and police brutality - folks looking to ensure the future of our country is better than its past.
Marcus Smart /
Boston
Injustice
Cleared
First Things
Join
Marching
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I defend just like my brother Todd lived. He taught me how to play defense by the way he lived his life. I defend like every game is my last game, like anything can be taken away at any moment, and that's what my brother taught me. That's what he always preached to me, so that's how I believe the game should be played.
Marcus Smart /
Life Believe I Believe
Defend
Life Moment Game
Preached
Todd
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