Kevin Garnett Quotations

We have to do the impossible, but it is possible.

At the end of the day, you're responsible for yourself and your actions and that's all you can control. So rather than be frustrated with what you can't control, try to fix the things you can.

I'm not the type of person to give up just because something gets rough. That's a coward. That's not me.

Too much coffee. Too much coffee and Gatorade. It's a hell of a mix. If you're ever tired in the morning, just try that mix, and tell me what you think.

I'm very simple. I'm not for the flashes, I'm not for glitz and glamour, you know.

'Modern Warfare,' 'Black Ops,' these are all the next level of video games. The people are more detailed, the fighting is more exact, and I can't speak for every gamer out there, but I know when I play, I feel like I'm actually in the game. It's that intense.

Playing video games is something I enjoy in my spare time. I'm a gamer, always have been.

I learned one thing - never hate a positive option.

I don't think anything less than perfect, even though I'm a human being. The way I work and go at things is to better myself in perfect terms.

I have a problem sometimes with being too hyper.

There are a lot of things that frustrate me. I get frustrated when I have to wait at a red light.

I'm not for the flashes; I'm not for glitz and glamour, you know. I just want to win, I want to be good at what I do, um, and look back upon these days of playing in the NBA.

Coaching takes patience. I'm more enthused when teaching players who want it versus when I have to.

The beautiful thing about when you go through a slide is that you learn from it. Not just saying that you learn from it, but applying the things that you have learned.

I'm from the bottom, I understand what it's like to have and to not have. My perception on giving is to put yourself in those people's shoes and go from there. So that's what I did.

We know that in order for us to turn this around, it doesn't matter how many coaches they bring in here, assistants, weight trainers, whoever, we're the ones that are going to have turn it around. And I think just took that responsibility on ourselves.

I've never been an individual guy. I never cared about the accolades. I've always been driven by the competition and the learning process.

I'm not someone who is going to give in to a lot of pressure. I've always understood that everything is not always going to be good.

The last couple of practices, all we've been doing is a lot of defensive things. We've been going over some drills that make all of us have to communicate.

Performance is something we all strive to be better at. I'm no different than that. Who wants to look bad?

Some of my friends snowmobile. I'm a little scared of it.

It's scary when one day the city is there and the next day it's gone. To see the water actual kill people, I couldn't believe it. I never fathomed it could bury a city.

So we take a lot of pride in that. It's really on us to turn this thing around. I think this last month we've done just that. We've pointed ourself in the direction that we want to be, and I think we're starting to head towards that. Right now we're in a nice rhythm.

So you're dealing with a coach, and you're dealing with a guy who's actually experienced NBA basketball from a player's perspective and actually goes about it that way.

Going from Flip to Kev, obviously you don't want to see someone ever lose their job. For me it's probably a little more difficult, because other than Bill Blair, Flip is all I knew.

I don't play to sweat, I play to win.

Kev has these old Boston drills, where you all have to talk to each other, and interact, and it's helped us.

Sometimes when I hear commentating, it's sickening. People who never played the game, people who never played in the league have an opinion, and that's all it is. You are here to educate the watcher or the viewer. Sometimes it comes off as personal. I don't ever want to come off like that. My opinion is my opinion about someone.

I would love to see Flip get back into the league. I think he can definitely still coach in this league. I think he will be in this league quicker than sooner.

I can't control if people like me; I can't control if people like my game.

We both hate losing. I'm pretty sure he would like some more help.

We're still in the tutorial stage, and every day is different, from the coaches, to us, to each other.

We have to hang on to our leads. We give them away like they're candy. It's frustrating. You have to understand the personnel. We have a young team. Our guys haven't been in these situations, and they're learning.

We have no choice. We're in a position where we have to stop looking down the road and start to focus on one game at a time and getting better.

We were a lot more conscious of him. I think, to begin with, we were probably focused on (point guard) Baron Davis more than anybody, because he makes that team go.

We're a big question mark. We have no real identity at this point. We show glimpses of being very, very good defensively. ... But I don't think you can stamp us as a defensive team or stamp us as a team with an identity right now.

The fact that she pays the overhead of her employees and the foundation itself and just goes out and makes dreams come true ... I think it makes it more beneficial, ... It's a good thing.

We're just finishing games off of pure talent, not knowledge. We're just making it difficult for ourselves. Miami's a good team. They're going to make a run, and they did. We held it off the best we could and won the game.

We're not consistent for 48 minutes in what we're doing, and it's our fault. We can't blame Case. We can't blame anybody but ourselves, starting with me.

makes us, at times, unstoppable because the break is going so fast.

Last year was last year, ... We have a lot to prove. ... If you sense a little bit of a chip on my shoulder, it is. Because last year wasn't really pleasant. The finger-pointing. I felt like people didn't really look at themselves in the mirror. It's a new year. A new day. Happy to be back in the gym and get after it.

Ricky's not new to the league. I've seen him play. He's seen me play. We lose a lot of games being robotic. We haven't had any practice time. But it's basketball at the end of the day. It's beautiful.

I have faith in Glen that he'll do the right thing.

I don't know, man. This whole thing is an adjustment. I'm just trying to figure it out as we go.

I am happy that I can help make a difference in the communities, and blessed to be in the position where I am able to lend support.

I have my own little style that works for me, I don't try to bite into anybody else's style. When I get clothes made, I make them to my own taste and when you see me come into the arena, that's how I felt that day.

I feel like the Commodores. I feel like the Commodores.

From here on out until April, all these games are important. But this was a division game, so it was even bigger.

I don't sign anybody's checks, but you have to be committed and ready to play.

Giving up is very easy. To continue to work and to continue to compete is one of the most difficult things, especially in a rough environment when you really don't have anything to play for other than dignity.

If it's anything different from that, then, at the end-of-the-season discussion, we have to talk about it. I don't want to go through another season like this, to be honest with you.

He taught me to keep the guys together. The way you win championships is the chemistry you form with them off the field.

He has matured so fast. Probably because he's had no choice, given the position that he's in. He had to succeed. He had to be aggressive. It's been learn-as-you-go. He's handled it. He's maturing beautifully, and it's working out. So far, so good.

Good; I can talk some (trash) to him. That's probably the reason he's not returning my phone calls. It makes a lot of sense.

He's definitely into it. Sometimes, he does look a little bewildered, but I don't think passion is in the back seat, so to speak. He's playing with a lot of heart, but at the same time, he's trying to figure it out.

When they started playing zone, it slowed us down, made us stagnant. It was effective and teams have been playing us pretty much straight up (man-to-man). I'm sure some other teams are going to watch this game, and they're going to do some of the same things. I know what we're going to work on tomorrow.

He was one of the very few people that I enjoyed being around, to tell you the truth, because he was just himself. I had a lot of private conversations about being who we are, being people, not being afraid of making mistakes.

He was one of the very few people that I enjoyed being around.

He just talked to me briefly, and I could tell right away that we were going to get along.

He just expressed his thanks for me reaching out to him and being honest with how I felt, and some more personal things. I have a lot of respect for the man.

I take a lot of pride in how I look,

It is a Big Gorilla off our back. Obviously, we didn't do well on the road.

I think you measure it by how many kids are using it. You can only take the kids, so to speak, to the water... but it's up to the kids to drink.

I thought the call that was before that was sort of a cheap call. I just came down and was frustrated. By no means was I trying to hit a fan. If anything, I was trying to get a delay of game. Unfortunately, that happened. I apologized to the little girl and her father.

I thought the call that was before that was sort of a cheap call.

I think we were all kind of frustrated with the referees. We felt like they called a (expletive) game. Thirty-something to 17 fouls, that's crazy. But at the same time, we still had a chance to win it, but we just never could pull it together.

I think that is all anyone wants at the end of the day, to be appreciated. With the ovation that (Flip) had tonight, it is good to see him appreciated.

I think we're like four (games) behind Denver. If we can just get some sort of momentum...

I think there needs to be some style improvement but at the same time it has to be with in reasons.

Just being aggressive in the fourth quarter is what I'm focused on.

Our inspiration was coming out and knowing how we played against them in (California). We didn't play our best game, and we were more enthused than anything to get a little payback, if you want to call it that. The fourth quarter was a lot more energetic.

Let me tell y'all something: Even though we've been losing and gone through some difficult times, man, we continue to keep our morale up. Our confidence has always been high.

Marko was aggressive tonight. It was the first night when we didn't have to say much to him. I think he came here with a little chip on his shoulder, some kind of edge with him.

I'm so locked in that I was thinking we had more time. I should have fouled earlier. I'm thinking we had had him (Blake) trapped in the corner, but not thinking that he's sitting there waiting to be fouled with the clock running. It was stupid on my part.

That was so unfortunate. It could have happened to any of us. I kept telling him, 'You'll be OK. We're right there with you.

That was a good block. I mean, you all saw what you saw, but as soon as it left his hand I got it, you know. I'm sitting right here in front of you all with a win.

I wasn't going to feed into what you guys wanted me to say,

We have our hand on the neck of the golden goose and we're squeezing hard.

Whether you want to put faith in them or not, they do what they do and they do what they want to do, ... It's not my team. Glen Taylor, he and Kevin McHale try to put together a plan and I guess for whatever reason try to enforce it. But I don't think I'm the person to ask.

Usually we get a better boost from our bench. It's been a rough 48 hours, personally. For the most part today, we withstood every blow, and then the fourth quarter came and they were a lot more aggressive.

We didn't have one of the best third quarters. Third quarters have been our Achilles' heel. In the second half, we didn't have that same flow.

We've got a lot of young guys, and I'm trying to help teach them and get a lot of the new guys some confidence. We just have to come in and work every day and make each other better.

We're two totally different people from two totally different parts of the earth. I think people are wanting it to be more than what it really was. It wasn't like we hated each other. We spoke every day, said what's up, had conversations, cracked jokes, just like any other teammate in here. Basketball-wise, came in, did what we had to do to get a win. Sometimes we didn't get it. We're both competitive.

We weren't able to do anything on the offensive end that we were doing in the first half. We were not spacing and moving correctly and we weren't able to figure out what they are doing. They played well when they had to.

We knew that if we came in here and played around or didn't play with the right mind set, we were going to get blown out. We came in and took some of their 3-pointers away.

Tonight, you had a more energetic team. A team that was feistier.

Tonight's win was great. It was a win we definitely needed. For the most part we all played together. We played aggressively. The defense was probably what won the game for us.

We've got a lot of new faces, a lot of variables, ... Can we win? Can we not win? What kind of team it's going to be. Our identity. How different things take shape. We'll find out pretty soon.

You guys, you go to work, and when a new colleague comes in you have to form chemistry and try to work with that. Sometimes that transition is a rough one.

When you lose, the easy part is to see who gives up. Giving up is very simple. You basically take your stuff and walk away. To continue to work and to continue to compete is one of the most difficult things, especially when you really don't have anything to play for other than dignity and self-perseverance. That's when you see who's really with you.

Even though we've been losing and going through hard times, we've kept our morale up.

Everybody, including the coaches, keep looking forward to the playoffs, the playoffs. But we need to focus on one game at a time instead of looking down the road.

Everybody from A to Z has to be ready to play, and sometimes that's not the case. It's a little more difficult on the road, dealing with the crowd and different elements, but that's no excuse.

I should have had a little more control than that.

I've never had (a) beef with World. Personally, we were teammates. We understood that. I understood that. As the primary (option) on this team, I felt it was my responsibility to have the ball come through me, and I consolidated and distributed to everybody. I don't know if World was bothered by that.

The zone tonight was a big problem. The zone slowed us down and made us stagnant and not as aggressive.

The third quarter has been our Achilles heel pretty much the whole year.

I've never been opposed to a reunion. I've always let him know that I'm going to be in Minnesota, and he's always let me know he's going to be in New York. So I guess we've got a problem. Different parts of the world, dealing with the map is probably the issue at this point.

I've never been a part of something like this before, so I didn't know what to expect. I was not here for anything else but the people. This weekend was the most memorable weekend I have ever had.

I've always said I'll be in Minnesota as long as they want me. I don't think I can take another one of these rebuilding stages.