Larry Hughes Quotations

We know we might face these guys early on. That's our focus. We don't want to let anyone we play feel like they have a chance.

We heard pretty much right after the accident about what had happened. He is the kind of guy who is so incredibly exciting to watch race. He just has such a wonderful personality and is the kind of person who always wants to help others and give back to people.

If this budget goes through as it stands now, it would hold hospitals and nursing solely responsible for everything that has gone wrong in the system, and I would suggest that might not be fair.

Gilbert and I are the best backcourt tandem in the league, ... You can put us up against anybody, either in the East or the West, and I feel like we're the best.

I don't think anybody can stop him. He can get his shot off any time. You have to make him work on defense and make him work on offense. You have to make him take a lot of shots.

I got a good look. I kind of rushed it a little bit.

He is just full of life. People gravitate towards him. He'd see young kids out on the track and he'd go right over to them and help them out. That's the kind of person he is.

I was just dealing with it, playing through it, but I knew something was wrong. This was the best time to do it. If it was later in the year, I would've kept playing.

It hurt. That initial sting and me having the history of it you have to make sure everything is good.

I will ask for him and guard him,

Our pitching was pretty good all weekend except for the game against Huntsville.

It felt great to get out there. I know you can't get it back all in one night. I'm on a four or five-game pace to find my rhythm and help my team.

It feels good for me to play meaningful games against a team I just left. It is against guys I have a great relationship with. It is more of a fun, meaningful series for me. We should go out and prove we have a good team over here.

It felt good just to be out there and get back in the swing of things. The team is winning and playing basketball, so it is definitely a good time right now.

That's basically up to coach. I think it will be a process where I work my way up.

(Winning 50 games) is a big goal. We feel like that's the mark we want to get to. We feel like if we get to 50 wins, we had a good season. And then the second season starts.

We were able to get six games in, which is what we needed to do.

We couldn't even break huddle. We couldn't even discuss practice tomorrow or we had a good game or nothing. He was just talking about winning on TNT, winning on national TV.

We couldn't even break huddle, ... We couldn't even discuss practice tomorrow or we had a good game or nothing. He was just talking about winning on TNT, winning on national TV.

Whether you win by 30 or lose by two you just have to move on. What we did in Game 1 really doesn't mean anything if we come out and don't take care of what we are supposed to take care of in Game 2. That's pretty much the nature of it.

Yeah, I think we're ready. I know we've been tested by our circumstances.

We have a lot of history. Playing alongside him, we know each other's tendencies.

We have to win on the road. That is basically what it comes down to. We didn't come into this series thinking that we would not have to win in D.C. We planned on it, and that is something that we have to do.

We're not going to be that team that's a defensive stopper,

We kind of got stagnant and just didn't execute.

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We watch football, play video games, shoot the breeze, joke one another. It's just like hanging with your boys at home. It's different, but it'll keep us together.

Fifty wins, that's a big goal. That's definitely a mark we want to get to. If we can get to 50 wins, then we had a good season.

Expectations were high because of his size and speed. A lot of people wanted him to do things he's not capable of. There are a lot of tall guys that can't play basketball.

Every season I want to play 82 games. That's my goal, and obviously that's not going to happen this year. I have to deal with it. I have to make the best from it.

At this point, not a lot of guys in their career win 50 games, so that's always a plus. But staying healthy is definitely more important. It would be nice to get it done, but you don't want to sacrifice what we've worked all season for.

There's not really any limitations. I just need to make sure I'm warmed up. My bone is healed. My tissues are healed. I'm icing after every workout.

This is an opportunity that I couldn't pass up, ... Coming from the situation I was in, I just felt like this is better for me.

It was going pretty good until the other night when he had 17 free throws. That's tough to contain a guy who is already potent on the other end. I have to continue to force him into our help, get a hand up on his jump shot and sometimes make him play a little defense on the other end.

For everyone else, it's a crazy shot. He makes it on a regular basis.

Not a lot of guys in their career win 50 games. It's a new team and a new staff from top to bottom. To come in and put up 50 wins in a season I think that's a great confidence booster for the time that everyone is here.

It will be good for us. We're ready. We know what's at hand. We aren't planning on walking to the playoffs because we have the fourth spot.

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I'm happy that she's going to be included in this activity. She's a high school student, and athletics is part of her education. They were denying her the opportunity.

If you don't tell your students, they will tell you.

I realize that the writers and broadcasters are just trying to do their job with the questions they ask. They are just doing their job. I just try to cooperate at all times because that's part of my job also.

I play defense. That's what I do, and I like doing it. That's tough when you don't get the opportunity to do what you like to do: that's anticipate, beat guys to the spot, get your hands in there, play clean basketball, play good defense.

Cleveland, I felt, had an opportunity to take it to the next level. I feel like coming to Cleveland from Washington, Cleveland's basically in the same place Washington is. That really was the deciding factor. I didn't want to go to an organization that was trying to hold things together to just win basketball games. Here, we're putting pieces together so we can advance to the playoffs.

I definitely want to win so I talk a little smack to those guys. I was one of the oldest guys on that team and they kind of looked up to me.

The doctors didn't put any limitations on me.

The first thing we have to realize is, they're a perimeter team. We have to understand their guards are going to do the majority of the work. We have to take those options away.

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