Quotes by Kevin Garnett

About Kevin Garnett:

Kevin Maurice Garnett is an American professional basketball player who currently plays for the Minnesota Timberwolves of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He plays the power forward and center positions. In high school, Garnett was a 1995 McDonald's All-American at Farragut Career Academy and won a national player of the year award. Garnett entered the 1995 NBA draft, where he was selected with the fifth overall pick by the Minnesota Timberwolves and became the first NBA player drafted directly out of high school in 20 years.
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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

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

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

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

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 ourselve...

Kevin Garnett

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

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

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

Kevin Garnett

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

Kevin Garnett

I have a problem sometimes with being too hyper.

Kevin Garnett

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

Kevin Garnett

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 ...

Kevin Garnett

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

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

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

Kevin Garnett

'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...

Kevin Garnett

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

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

Kevin Garnett

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

Kevin Garnett

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

Author Bio

  • NameKevin Garnett
  • DescriptionAmerican basketball player
  • BornMay 19, 1976
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionBasketball Player
  • AwardsNBA Most Valuable Player Award