98 Quotes By - Brandon Ingram
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| 98 Quotes By - Brandon Ingram |
98 Quotes By - Brandon Ingram
I'm just kind of laidback and reserved.
— Brandon Ingram
The Duke family, those are my brothers, and it's something I'll always take with me. Coach K, he gives me a lot of motivational things and checks in on me and my family. He knows where my heart is.
— Brandon Ingram
What I'm learning about myself is, no matter what the challenge is, I can overcome it.
— Brandon Ingram
Sometimes I can get lost in games.
— Brandon Ingram
I like George Gervin a lot, even as a guy that played a long time ago.
— Brandon Ingram
I just want to be better. Of course, I'm not satisfied... I'm just pushing every day.
— Brandon Ingram
My job is just to continue to get better.
— Brandon Ingram
My great aunt raised me for about four or five years. Something I took from her was a quote: 'Fear of suffering is far worse than suffering itself.' I actually have that tattooed on the back of my arm.
— Brandon Ingram
I think I'm a good enough ball handler to bring the ball up the basketball court, and my teammates do a great job of getting open.
— Brandon Ingram
It could be the best defender or the worst defender. I have to have the attitude that I don't think anyone is going to deter me from getting to the basket. Maybe help defense can come over and affect it, but not the first guy.
— Brandon Ingram
There is always going to be another game and another day.
— Brandon Ingram
Sometimes shots just don't go my way, but for me in my growth and as a leader, it's important for me to stay aggressive.
— Brandon Ingram
I'm a filet guy, so I like steak.
— Brandon Ingram
J. Cole is definitely one of my favorite artists, but I like a lot of different music.
— Brandon Ingram
I'm just happy to be drafted. It's my lifelong dream. Wherever I end up, I'll be happy.
— Brandon Ingram
I always see Lonzo dancing on social media.
— Brandon Ingram
I just love playing basketball, so it's good being in the gym.
— Brandon Ingram
I've always been an underrated passer.
— Brandon Ingram
Southern hospitality, that's where I come from.
— Brandon Ingram
If I'm not asleep, it's probably all basketball.
— Brandon Ingram
I feel like I should be an NBA player.
— Brandon Ingram
My motivation is to be the best I can be.
— Brandon Ingram
Thirteen was my brother's number.
— Brandon Ingram
I feel like I'm a matchup problem, but that's of course because of my height and the height difference at my position sometimes.
— Brandon Ingram
I grew up being a Kobe fan, of course.
— Brandon Ingram
My decision to go to Duke wasn't a surprise to people who really knew me because I was always a Duke fan growing up.
— Brandon Ingram
I lay back and see how I can do things the right way.
— Brandon Ingram
I like to be straightforward with whatever I'm doing, whether it's basketball, whether it's meeting someone, whatever it is.
— Brandon Ingram
It was fun getting my feet wet on an NBA floor.
— Brandon Ingram
I feel like I gotta get out of myself sometimes. I think I'm in my own world sometimes. I don't like to let other people come into my own world. Especially with my teammates, my coaches, I should be doing that. The important people that need to know how I'm feeling. I can do a better job of telling them exactly how I feel.
— Brandon Ingram
People around me, they can give me talks, they can tell me what to do, but if I don't have the right mentality, then nothing good is going to happen for me because I'm not going to be confident.
— Brandon Ingram
It's all about dressing how you feel.
— Brandon Ingram
I always to try block everything out, good or bad. I always hope to keep receiving blessings, to have faith, because you know, there's a time to block everything out and just work on your craft, work on everything that you desire to get, desire to want.
— Brandon Ingram
When I was growing up, I drew my favorite basketball players.
— Brandon Ingram
In the two years that I've been in the NBA, I don't think I've played to my ability.
— Brandon Ingram
I seen my dad work for like 16, 17 hours a day.
— Brandon Ingram
LeBron's always like this: steady. Steady all the time. He's never forcing anything.
— Brandon Ingram
LeBron knows exactly who he is.
— Brandon Ingram
I don't think I can be perfect, but I think I can be close to perfect if I continue to prepare and continue to do everything in my power to be the best version of myself.
— Brandon Ingram
Individually, yeah, I want to be the best version of me. But I want to make everyone else feel comfortable on the floor where they can go out there and they are just playing their game. That's when I'm the happiest, when every guy on the floor is just being that.
— Brandon Ingram
I'm not the most vocal guy, but I try to lead by example every single day with how I work.
— Brandon Ingram
I want to be versatile.
— Brandon Ingram
I try to take whatever the defense gives me, have a sense of urgency, know who's guarding me and pick my spots, get my teammates involved and also attack the rim.
— Brandon Ingram
We try not to worry about our opponent. We try to worry about ourselves.
— Brandon Ingram
I grew up playing bigger guys all my life, so it's nothing different.
— Brandon Ingram
Seeing bigger guys doesn't scare me at all. It just makes me want to compete against those guys. Bigger or smaller guys - it doesn't matter.
— Brandon Ingram
Coach K tried to implement a style where we passing, moving the ball, the open guy gets the open shot, running in transition.
— Brandon Ingram
I think as a player you're never satisfied.
— Brandon Ingram
When I draw defenders into the lane, it's easy for me to kick it out.
— Brandon Ingram
I don't like video games.
— Brandon Ingram
I really don't do much. I play basketball.
— Brandon Ingram
I'll do everything I can to reach my potential.
— Brandon Ingram
I definitely want to show that I'm going to be a reliable guy to put in the work.
— Brandon Ingram
I want to win. Whatever it takes to win, that's what I'll do.
— Brandon Ingram
It's something that I have to learn to do: affect the game in a different way. If I don't get it on the offensive end, try to get it on the defensive end.
— Brandon Ingram
Eventually you get tired of losing.
— Brandon Ingram
It's important for me to be aggressive and not defer.
— Brandon Ingram
When I'm aggressive, all the other guys are aggressive, and somehow that's how we win games.
— Brandon Ingram
When I go on the basketball court, I don't think about who's guarding me.
— Brandon Ingram
I write music.
— Brandon Ingram
It's OK to be hard on yourself, just know you have another chance to go out and prove yourself again.
— Brandon Ingram
When I play my hardest, I feel like I'm one of the best on the floor.
— Brandon Ingram
I'm a believer everything happens for a reason.
— Brandon Ingram
I like to play my game. I don't want to do anything out of control, out of nature.
— Brandon Ingram
My arm is so long, I kind of shoot over my head sometimes.
— Brandon Ingram
Without basketball, I'd have no idea what to do.
— Brandon Ingram
Don't take for granted things.
— Brandon Ingram
My greatest strength is my scoring ability. I've scored the ball at every level.
— Brandon Ingram
I can shoot the basketball, I can get to the basket.
— Brandon Ingram
Of course I've been compared to Kevin Durant.
— Brandon Ingram
Work hard, work away from the game, work when no one's looking, and just knowing that it's a process. Everything will come at the right time.
— Brandon Ingram
I'll do whatever the coach wants me to do.
— Brandon Ingram
I was always around basketball, from when I was four or five years old.
— Brandon Ingram
On my youth teams, I always pretty good. I guess I just really started to play with some of my peers around age 8 or 9. We always battled and had fun playing in the rec leagues.
— Brandon Ingram
Of course my goal at Duke was to win the national championship, but we were shorthanded, and lost one of our big guys that was very important to the team. By the end of the season we only played about six guys. But we tried our hardest and did our best and overall had a successful season.
— Brandon Ingram
Ultimately, it was always my dream to be here in the NBA. I just took it serious. I knew if I put in the work I could eventually get here.
— Brandon Ingram
I was shooting over my head. With my long arms, it was like a slingshot. Coming from college to the NBA, I was only about 180 pounds, so I was trying to push the ball to the rim from the 3-point line.
— Brandon Ingram
I just try to use my length to the best of my ability.
— Brandon Ingram
I think when you have the point guard guarding someone full court and just chasing the guy all around, always in the right spot, it just makes you want to get down in a stance and be his backup and have his help whenever he needs it. Or having the same energy that he has.
— Brandon Ingram
I might do a hobby or go to the movies, but everything comes back to basketball.
— Brandon Ingram
I think when you have 24 hours in a day to just think about basketball all the time, that's just what I want to do. I want to fall in love with it and just do everything I can to be the best at it.
— Brandon Ingram
Versatility is very important in the modern game.
— Brandon Ingram
I try to make a name off someone before they make a name off me.
— Brandon Ingram
I don't do anything else but play basketball.
— Brandon Ingram
Playing one year under Coach K feels like you've played for three years. I learned so much from him; gained a lot of wisdom and knowledge from him.
— Brandon Ingram
When you want to play basketball and you get paid for playing basketball, you want to do it every single day. So I don't think I'll get tired of doing it.
— Brandon Ingram
I have the same routine every day just to make me a better basketball player, and I'm going to continue the routine just to see where it gets me and how I can reach my potential.
— Brandon Ingram
I think I can do everything on the basketball floor. I just gotta be consistent in what I do.
— Brandon Ingram
There are no other Kobe Bryants.
— Brandon Ingram
I feel like I'm a competitor. I hate to lose.
— Brandon Ingram
If you can score the ball, it doesn't really how big or small you are.
— Brandon Ingram
If you're not trying to win, there's no point in playing.
— Brandon Ingram
That's all I seek every practice and every game, to progress in some way, be coachable and try to be the best I can be for my teammates.
— Brandon Ingram
I've always been a shooter.
— Brandon Ingram
Even Coach K thinks he can be a better coach each and every day.
— Brandon Ingram
You're always becoming; you've never arrived. And I use that day by day just for me to work hard each and every day, and know that no matter how good I worked out today, no matter how good I thought I was today, I can always get better and always be a better person.
— Brandon Ingram
I think if you can score the ball, you can play at any level.
— Brandon Ingram
I think anybody would want to be compared to Kevin Durant.
— Brandon Ingram
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