Quotes by Jamal Murray - Page 2

Coming from Canada, I've always had people doubt me or doubt my ability. We're just going to keep letting our game talk.
Jamal Murray /
Canada
Always Me Keep
Game Me People
Letting
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I play with a lot of heart, play with a lot of passion. And when you're fighting for something, it means a whole lot more.
Jamal Murray /
Fighting
Passion
Whole
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Fatigue is one thing. Injuries are another. But if you are just tired because you just practiced - well, I'm not having that.
Jamal Murray /
Fatigue
Injuries
Practiced
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When we go out and play the teams that we need to beat that aren't near our level, then we've got to go out there and blow them out.
Jamal Murray /
Blow
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The main thing is being consistent, being efficient and getting good looks, moving the ball when you can and knocking down my free throws.
Jamal Murray /
Efficient
Good Looks
Main Thing
Throws
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My whole life I played the point, so naturally I think as a point. Two guard, I get to score more... During the game, I like to mix it up.
Jamal Murray /
Guard
Mix
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Just wanting to play, I think that's my biggest attribute, just wanting to play through whatever I have to in order to go out and compete.
Jamal Murray /
Attribute
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I myself have seen the same racism happen to me and my Dad... I think about all the stories I have growing up with my Dad how obvious it is.
Jamal Murray /
Dad
Growing Up
Obvious
Racism
Stories
Dad Myself Me
Seen
Same
Happen
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I really wanted to step up my defense night in, night out. So that's my mindset, just playing defense and trying to be consistent with that.
Jamal Murray /
Mindset
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In college, I got better at playing the 2, kind of got a feel for it coming off screens, found my rhythm. Before that I was a natural point guard.
Jamal Murray /
Point Guard
Rhythm
Screens
Guard
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I was very disciplined growing up. If I didn't want to run hills, I ran hills; if I didn't want to jog around the block, I jogged around the block.
Jamal Murray /
Block
Growing Up
Hills
Ran
Disciplined
Jog
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You don't want to be the selfish point guard. You want to be the guy that gets everybody open, that makes plays, and see the ball move before it goes in.
Jamal Murray /
Point Guard
Guard
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The calls aren't always going to go your way, and you can't complain about it. I tried to learn that as a young player, and you just got to play through it.
Jamal Murray /
Always Your Way
Calls
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My dad is the person who taught me how important the mental side of the game is. He studied kung fu growing up and he taught me how to meditate when I was a kid.
Jamal Murray /
Dad Game Me
Meditate
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At Kentucky, that was my job - coming off screens, catch and shoot, spacing the floor - no hesitations. Just go right into my shot - don't focus on the defender.
Jamal Murray /
Screens
Catch
Defender
Floor
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I grew up in a kung fu house. It wasn't until I got older that I discovered that most families didn't talk about the Shaolin Temple or Jackie Chan at the dinner table.
Jamal Murray /
Dinner Table
Jackie
Jackie Chan
Temple
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As a child, I was competitive in whatever it was - first one to eat your wings, first one to run to the door. In everything we were competitive. I always wanted to have the edge.
Jamal Murray /
Wings
Edge
First One
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I can't control what the other team's gonna feel. I'm just gonna go out there and hoop, and whoever takes it to heart and takes their losses salty, I can't do anything about that.
Jamal Murray /
Salty
Hoop
Losses
Whoever
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When you go to like the Nike Hoops Summit, or the All-Canadian Game, all those really matter in your development and how people perceive you as far as how good of a player you are.
Jamal Murray /
Nike
Perceive
Summit
Good Game People
Hoops
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Learning to meditate is one of my earliest memories. I started when I was maybe three or four. I mean, I didn't know I was meditating. I just thought it was a weird game my dad had invented.
Jamal Murray /
Meditating
Earliest
Earliest Memories
Invented
Meditate
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The first martial arts movie I ever watched was this old Chinese film called 'Five Deadly Venoms.' I was seven years old. My dad and I were sitting in front of the TV on the floor in our living room.
Jamal Murray /
Living Room
Martial Arts
Deadly
Floor
Martial
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I always wanted to get better, I always wanted to be the best, and I knew from a young age, so I kept putting in the hard work and kept training around the outside courts outside my house and it paid off.
Jamal Murray /
Young Age
Best Work Age
Courts
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Well, being at a big school, I had to perform every night. I had to deal with a lot of fans, media stuff, interactions, relationships, you know, just to build myself and show how much I care about Kentucky.
Jamal Murray /
Every Night
Interactions
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If you actually understand and listen to what he's saying, there's no one that can compete with Eminem. That's why no one goes at Eminem because everybody knows Eminem is just, he's too good in a rap battle.
Jamal Murray /
Eminem
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Life is a weird thing because it puts roadblocks in front of you, sometimes you gotta go through it, sometimes you gotta go around it, sometimes you gotta take a pause and look back at what you're gonna do, have a plan.
Jamal Murray /
Weird
Because
Go
Thing
Around
Back
Through
Take
Look
Front
Gonna
Gotta
Life Is A
Pause
Plan
Puts
Roadblocks
Weird Thing
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The stuff that the cops do and the stuff that happens, what bothers us, the black community, is it's so blatant... It's so out in the open that if you can't see it, then you are part of the problem because it is very obvious.
Jamal Murray /
Black
Black Community
Community
Obvious
Problem
Stuff
Bothers
Open
Part
Cops
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It's not just passing, I gotta play defense, I gotta rebound, I gotta talk, I could have 40 and not talk and not bring energy. But it's just trying to have an all-around game, just trying to be the leader I can be, get the pace up.
Jamal Murray /
Defense
Leader
Pace
Passing
Rebound
All-Around
Gotta
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Well, my dad did a lot of Kung Fu when I was growing up, so he taught me a lot about mental toughness. Ways to slow your heart rate down, slow your breathing down to take control of your body so you can push yourself to the next limit.
Jamal Murray /
Heart Rate
Mental Toughness
Rate
Toughness
Dad Heart Me
Limit
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I remember playing hockey as a kid - I was goalie in gym class and I was pretty good at it. But basketball was my passion. As a kid I went to class, came back from school, did my homework and went straight across the street to practice.
Jamal Murray /
Hockey
Homework
Pretty Good
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The best part of watching kung fu movies with my dad was the conversations they sparked. We never watched them just for fun. 'Do you see how good his balance is?' My dad would always zero in on really specific stuff like that. Everything had a potential lesson.
Jamal Murray /
Best Good Movies
Best Part
Conversations
Lesson
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The point guard thing was I had to figure out how to score when I'm hot, and how to distribute and make sure everybody is happy. Because I can be happy scoring the ball. But when everybody isn't touching the ball, and we're not making the defense move, it's kind of pointless. So, I've got to find a way to keep everybody in the loop.
Jamal Murray /
Point Guard
Distribute
Guard
Loop
Scoring
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