Top 73 Garnett Quotes
#1. I play against a front and a back every night, Ming does not have to do that, Duncan does not have to do that, Garnett doesn't do that. I am the only one that has to do that.
Shaquille O'Neal
#2. I've modeled my game after Kevin Garnett and Tim Duncan.
Chris Bosh
#3. Poor thing, thought Garnett, to have to commit yourself so hard to one moment of poor judgment.
Barbara Kingsolver
#4. Paternalistic is a very good word. They think they have to look out for these guys? Don't worry about it. Why? Because of history. Kevin Garnett, Tracy McGrady, LeBron James, Kobe Bryant. They did okay.
Sonny Vaccaro
#5. Is it a particularly British trait to so utterly adore truly appalling men, from Tony Hancock through to Steptoe and Alf Garnett, Captain Mainwaring, Rigsby, Del Boy, Victor Meldrew and on to David Brent from The Office. The most deeply adored characters are all simply vile.
A.A. Gill
#6. How would you even begin to make a hush puppy, what in the world was in one? Nothing to do with a puppy, surely. Garnett had long known, though he didn't much like to admit it, that God's world and the better part of daily life were full of mysteries known only to women.
Barbara Kingsolver
#7. Kevin Garnett is the prototype for the NBA player of the future. He's already one of the greatest players to have played the game.
Bill Walton
#8. Emerson died April 27, 1882, after a few days' illness from pneumonia. Dr. Garnett in his excellent biography says: Seldom had 'the reaper whose name is Death' gathered such illustrious harvest as between December 1880 and April 1882.
Anonymous
#9. People will think there are no other great ballplayers. Look at Garnett. Look at Duncan, Shaq, Kobe. Look at the players with Sacramento. The have a really good basketball team.
Oscar Robertson
#10. Childhood is played out in a foreign language and our memory of it is a Constance Garnett translation.
Rabih Alameddine
#11. Kevin Garnett did the classic hold me back but fall away at the same time.
Jemele Hill
#12. After the NBA and ABA merged, players could come out after high school. Still, there were only a few cases prior to Kevin Garnett coming out in 1995, so Nike and the other companies were only involved in the college game.
Sonny Vaccaro
#13. I'm a Lakers fan. Kevin Garnett is my favorite player of all time because of his passion for the game.
Rahim Moore
#14. Yes, Garnett Grey was an Architect. Were a psychoanalyst to approach him from behind, tap his shoulder, and say 'Humanity,' Garrett'd spin and respond, without hesitation, 'Solvable'.
Chip Kidd
#15. 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.
Kevin Garnett
#16. Besides, there is perhaps nothing so effective as the monotony of provincial town life in the Andes for suffocating ideals and creativity.
Miguel Garnett Johnson
#17. I have a problem sometimes with being too hyper.
Kevin Garnett
#18. Every veil secretly desires to be lifted, except the veil of Hypocrisy.
Richard B. Garnett
#19. 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.
Kevin Garnett
#20. Would the atheist continue such, let him beware how he admits Love into his breast: for God will surely come along with him.
Richard B. Garnett
#21. I've tried to tell the truth. But I would say that, wouldn't I? In any case it has to be my truth. What other truth could I possibly know?
Tony Garnett
#22. Flip's a player's coach, and I do know one thing, he motivates better than anybody I know. His system is very oriented around the point guard. He and Steph (Marbury) had a great relationship when Steph was in Minnesota.
Kevin Garnett
#23. Some of my friends snowmobile. I'm a little scared of it.
Kevin Garnett
#24. Love is wont to visit Man in the company of Desire; but Woman by himself.
Richard B. Garnett
#25. There are a lot of things that frustrate me. I get frustrated when I have to wait at a red light.
Kevin Garnett
#26. We have to do the impossible, but it is possible.
Kevin Garnett
#27. 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.
Kevin Garnett
#28. Trust Love, nor fear to soar upon his track. The wings that bore to Heaven will bear thee back.
Richard B. Garnett
#29. Playing video games is something I enjoy in my spare time. I'm a gamer, always have been.
Kevin Garnett
#30. Performance is something we all strive to be better at. I'm no different than that. Who wants to look bad?
Kevin Garnett
#31. I'm very simple. I'm not for the flashes, I'm not for glitz and glamour, you know.
Kevin Garnett
#33. 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.
Kevin Garnett
#34. '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.
Kevin Garnett
#35. I'm not the type of person to give up just because something gets rough. That's a coward. That's not me.
Kevin Garnett
#36. Art achieves all little things by absolute truth: but all her great things need some admixture of illusion.
Richard B. Garnett
#37. 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.
Kevin Garnett
#38. 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.
Kevin Garnett
#39. 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.
Kevin Garnett
#40. This ain't the Girl Scouts. This ain't the Boy Scouts. This is the NBA.
Kevin Garnett
#42. I learned one thing - never hate a positive option.
Kevin Garnett
#44. 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.
Kevin Garnett
#45. This is it. It's for all the marbles. I'm sitting in the house loading up the pump, I'm loading up the Uzis, I've got a couple of M-16s, couple of nines, couple of joints with some silencers on them, couple of grenades, got a missile launcher. I'm ready for war.
Kevin Garnett
#46. Kev has these old Boston drills, where you all have to talk to each other, and interact, and it's helped us.
Kevin Garnett
#47. 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.
Kevin Garnett
#48. 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.
Kevin Garnett
#49. I'm like Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. If I'm not ready, the sled isn't going to go.
Kevin Garnett
#52. The competition, the naysayers, the owners who talk too much. The people who don't think a 36-year-old can do what I do. I take a lot of pride in my craft, I work really hard at my craft everyday, and I'm a true professional.
Kevin Garnett
#53. Wail not too wildly for expiring Love: The Love that dies was never quite alive.
Richard B. Garnett
#54. Then is Love blest, when from the cup of the body he drinks the wine of the soul.
Richard B. Garnett
#55. 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.
Kevin Garnett
#56. Love is God's essence; Power but his attribute: therefore is his love greater than his power.
Richard B. Garnett
#57. It is no wonder if Art frequently prefers Illusion to Truth: for Illusion is her servant, but Truth her mistress.
Richard B. Garnett
#58. I can't control if people like me; I can't control if people like my game.
Kevin Garnett
#59. I'm not a star, man. If a guy came in here and shot you and shot me, we'd both be two dead people. You understand?
Kevin Garnett
#60. 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.
Kevin Garnett
#61. Coaching takes patience. I'm more enthused when teaching players who want it versus when I have to.
Kevin Garnett
#62. 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.
Kevin Garnett
#63. In the religion of Love the courtesan is a heretic; but the nun is an atheist.
Richard B. Garnett
#64. 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.
Kevin Garnett
#65. If Pity come as Pity, bid her stay; But if in guise of Love, chase her away.
Richard B. Garnett
#67. They say no matter how hard you work, there's always someone, somewhere working harder then you. Guess what.. I'm that someone
Kevin Garnett
#68. Were Love exempt from the militations of Necessity, he were greater than God and the World.
Richard B. Garnett
#69. 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.
Kevin Garnett
#70. They're really aggressive. They're like roaches on bread - you drop some on the floor and, boom, they're on it.
Kevin Garnett
#71. Thou canst not pray to God without praying to Love, but mayest pray to Love without praying to God.
Richard B. Garnett
#72. 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.
Kevin Garnett
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