Gary Payton Quotes


Gary Payton

It felt good to come out and get a welcome like that, ... It makes you feel like you?re at home.

We`ve got to expect a war. Everybody`s overlooking this team, but this is a very good team.

That`s not why they came here, to win a Western Conference championship.

George said I needed to start giving him something special,

We`re very close, and when he steps up for me like that, it`s hard to tell him no.

They`re athletic and young and they`re all freewheeling. They`re playing really loose, so it`s going to be a good challenge.

We want to win basketball games, and not let our egos get in the way. Everybody on this team has, at one point, been a star or a starter or a bigger part of their team. ... We have to understand that we are talking about wins, not who is going to have the points.

(The Bulls) are all athletic and young and they`re all free willing. They`re playing really loose. It`s going to be a good challenge. We just can`t let them come in and try to steal one in Miami. It`s going to be a tough young team that is never going to quit playing.

We were playing well,

I`m going to try to help Jason as much as possible. He has never had a guy like me to guide him. When I come into camp, I`m going to try to help him. I`m not going to try to beat him up or beat him down.






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