God blessed me with a lot of heart and no height, and I'll take that any day. Nate Robinson More Quotes by Nate Robinson More Quotes From Nate Robinson It was just weird. Once you get the ball and you get in a situation, it's like haywire, everything goes crazy, and everybody's running around. You don't know who to pass it to or what to do. So Coach said just slow down and just make the right play. I tried to get the best look I could at the basket. Nate Robinson crazy play running Now I've probably got to be more aggressive and pick up where [Marbury] left off, but I'm just going to take it how it comes. I'm not going to force it. I'm going to let the game come to me. Nate Robinson aggressive force games It was a great idea from my teammate Jamal Crawford. He kept telling me to jump over Spud, so we decided to call him and he was more than willing to participate with me. I just thank God for him. Nate Robinson teammate thank-god ideas In college, the fans cheer the whole game, from start to finish. In the NBA it's really laid back. Nate Robinson nba cheer college I usually dig the single-digit numbers, but No2 is retired. I'm going to change it up and wear No10. I'm going to wear it for Messi, my favourite soccer player. I've been playing a lot of FIFA lately and watching the games. He's the best little guy to do it and I've got to be the best little guy to do it at No10 in the NBA. That's my goal. Nate Robinson nba player soccer I remember back in the day, when Jordan wore the 7s, something magical always happened. He always performed at high levels, but it was something different when he laced up the 7s. Some of the Jordans still have that juice that MJ left in them, and the 7 is one of them. Nate Robinson juice levels different I had to, ... Tie my suit up, tie my tie and just get downstairs to my car as fast as I could, so nobody could see me. Nate Robinson suits car ties I've watched all (of Webb's) dunks on tape. I talked to him about what his preparations were going into the dunk contest. He just said he practiced a couple of days before. That's what I did. I practiced for two weeks, I know my routine, and I'm going to go in there, and I'm not going to shy away from it. Nate Robinson preparation couple two I observed the way Dee and Deron played at the Nike Camp [in Indianapolis]. They share the ball well; I mean, they average about 13 points apiece and they could both score 20 -- they do what they have to do to help the team. Nate Robinson nike team mean My dad said, 'Stay humble, and you gotta work harder than everybody else.' My mom said, 'Always be yourself.' She always told me only God can judge me. Nate Robinson me you god work There's so many kids in the world who are told, 'You can't do this, you can't do that.' Those are all put-downs. I'm all about pick-ups. You have to pick people up and pay it forward. Nate Robinson forward you people world I'm going to be me, regardless of anything. Nate Robinson regardless going anything me Actually, I'm 5-8 and change without shoes. With shoes, 5-9. Nate Robinson actually without shoes change You don't have to be the biggest, tallest, strongest guy to do whatever you want to do. You can do anything. There's tall doctors, short doctors. It doesn't matter. You don't have to be the tallest guy to play the sport of basketball, football or whatever you want to play. Nate Robinson short you matter football I always wanted to play with Kobe Bryant. I used to tease him all the time. Every time I was a free agent, I was like, 'What's up, bro? You got a chance to get the pit that you need. You feel me? This is your chance.' Nate Robinson feel me you time I don't like one-foot jumpers like LeBron James. It looks better jumping off two feet. Every time Michael Jordan jumped off two feet, it looked so much better. Nate Robinson better feet time looks My mom is probably the only person shorter than me that I'm scared of. Still to this day. She's, like, five-two, maybe. Nate Robinson person day me mom Mike D'Antoni was a cool coach, but he was just a bad person. He can coach. He was just mean for no reason. Nate Robinson person bad cool reason We're a competitive family - we compete in everything we do: playing cards; if we're walking down the street, we want to be the first one down the block. Nate Robinson street down family walking I've got the best shoe guy in the business. Nate Robinson shoe best guy business
