The Best John Stockton quotes

I heal quickly, and I stay in good shape, and I will stay in good shape. — John Stockton

I really don’t think of myself as the best player on the team. — John Stockton

I just play. I’m not one to think about it. If I get one assist and we win, that’s great. Otherwise, I could care less. — John Stockton

Once I came to Salt Lake City, I didn’t want to go anywhere else. It was home sweet home for me. — John Stockton

I don’t judge my performance on how many assists I have or how many points I have. — John Stockton

I think everybody should have the attitude that you can’t allow yourself to be hurt. You avoid a lot just with that attitude. — John Stockton

I really don’t look at my accomplishments. I really don’t think about myself much. — John Stockton

I think I’ve preserved most of my private life, and I think that’s still important for me, and that’s still important for my family. — John Stockton

Magic is the man. No one is in his class. — John Stockton

I don’t think you ever hear anybody shoot the last shot and say they didn’t think it was in. — John Stockton

I want my kids to have a life like I did growing up. The greatest gift I was given in life was from my parents. Though I can’t match them, I’d like to be that kind of parent. — John Stockton

Just because everybody else does something isn’t a good enough reason to do anything. — John Stockton

The West is tough. Great teams. Great records, top to bottom. — John Stockton

I try to exploit things against everybody; that’s part of the game: beat the guy that guards me while you’re beating their team. — John Stockton

My impression is that the NBA always precluded anything else. — John Stockton

You can find advantages to being small. — John Stockton

If you start chasing around trying to get steals for your own benefit, then you really put your defense at a disadvantage. It’s not a big thing for me; if it happens, great. — John Stockton

I didn’t want to get caught up in the mind–set that, ‘Wait a minute, I’m ahead of Magic. I better slow down.’ — John Stockton

Mostly, I go in the weight room and visit. — John Stockton

I think I laid it all out there for 19 years, and you don’t always achieve all the goals that you shoot for. — John Stockton

I don’t care if people even discuss what I did. But if anyone is ever sitting around the kitchen table talking about my career, I hope they say they enjoyed watching me play. That’s good enough. — John Stockton

I’ve been lucky to have great coaching, great teammates, and a desire to keep getting better. That, slowly over time, helped me grow from an average high school player to the NBA. — John Stockton

Usually for the last play, everyone goes helter–skelter. They go to the wrong spots. They don’t do the right thing. — John Stockton

With kids and all the other activities around the house, I’m finding it harder to give my full attention to basketball. — John Stockton

I don’t like to give in to injuries. I don’t like to use them as excuses. Everybody has them. — John Stockton

I never thought I’d make it in the NBA, so everything else is gravy. — John Stockton

Essentially, when you join a team, you’re making a commitment to your team. You can’t take that lightly. — John Stockton

I never consciously thought about going all the way through the ‘Gonzaga farm system,’ but that’s the way it happened. — John Stockton

If I pass the ball to Karl Malone, he still has to make the shot, or nothing has happened. — John Stockton

You never think about being wide open. I don’t know if I can describe the feeling. Tremendous. — John Stockton

I just always believed that all comments are better face–to–face, whether they’re derogatory or whether they’re not. — John Stockton

I have a great respect for people that write. I don’t know how they do it every day… or do novels that they have to use their minds instead of just their memories. It’s tough duty. — John Stockton

I guess I’d rather be comfortable and play well because I’m comfortable than to get recognition and play someplace where I wouldn’t be comfortable and wouldn’t enjoy myself. — John Stockton

I was just lucky to have a uniform. — John Stockton

You have a different personality in front of the world than you do in front of your pals at home. I like to keep them separate. — John Stockton

I’ve played games where I thought I played one of my better games, and statistically, there’s nothing there, and vice versa. I’ve never based how I feel about my performance on stats. — John Stockton

I have an ego like everyone else. I want to be recognized as a good ballplayer. — John Stockton

I know my first years sitting on the bench, largely behind Rickey Green, was a great learning tool for me. — John Stockton

The game’s a beautiful game when five guys go out there and give something of themselves so that you can win. — John Stockton

I haven’t played quarterback since eighth or ninth grade. I didn’t see it get much attention when I completed a pass then. — John Stockton

I think records are irrelevant, but I’m being approached about it all the time. If I could avoid it, that would be great. — John Stockton

It’s always in a cycle. One set of plays will work really well for a time, and then defenses figure it out, and you go to something else. — John Stockton