Top 66 Joe Harris Quotes

I was fortunate in college to play as a freshman, but in the NBA, not a lot of rookies are coming in and making a significant impact right off the bat.

It’s hard to compete with everything that Brooklyn has to offer as a city.

Some games you‘re gonna have seven shots, some games you’re gonna have 15, it just ebbs and flows with the game.

My grandparents owned an apple orchard when I was growing up – a lot of apples, cherries… now, actually, a lot of grapes, too, to be honest.

There’s not a lot of guys in the NBA who stick with one team for very long.

I miss UVA and Charlottesville a lot but not so much of going to class.

Even over the course of the NBA’s schedule, you’re gonna have games where you’re gonna take your lumps.

To actually play a game, where you are in the World Cup, there is significance to it, the point differential matters, all these things kind of add up.

I like this book by Angela Duckworth called ‘Grit.’

The teams that have got good continuity, good chemistry typically have more success.

I think you go across this league and you talk to every coach and every player, and dealing with a young, up-and-coming team is much different than coaching superstar players, and everybody kind of realizes that it’s a much different dynamic.

You never want to see anybody get hurt… but if you’ve ever played basketball before you’ve probably sprained your ankle so that stuff happens. It’s part of the game.

We’re all going to have ups and downs throughout the course of the season.

If you’ve got one guy that can create just a little bit of space for somebody that can get downhill, it opens up everything offensively.

I play around 220.

The shots, all that stuff, kind of comes and goes. You’re not going to be hitting every single game. You wish that you could. But there’s a lot of other areas to impact the game where I focus more on.

Sometimes you’ve got to be able to finish at the rim.

I feel like I play with good poise and I know when to take my shot – and when I do, I have a lot of confidence.

Coming into my rookie year, I could kind of eat whatever I wanted – you’re really not too concerned about it. But you don’t realize that a pound here and there is really not a good thing. It’s just basic physics: it’s harder to move faster and jump higher when you weigh more.

There’s teams that have a lot of success in the back-to-back, and I think those teams just have a strong mental fortitude.

Every time you play against somebody like Giannis, you have to be really locked into the game plan.

I don’t really get recognized a whole lot. I blend in pretty well.

Every step of way, going from a small town to Charlottesville and playing in the ACC – that whole experience is a difficult adjustment. In all of that, you really grow as a person and as a basketball player.

The conditioning aspect of things is really important, obviously in basketball, and then specifically for players like me.

When you look across the board at the count of NBA quality players that are on various international teams in Europe, Latin America, the Middle East and Asia, there are good players all over the world now. It’s just not in the NBA where America has the most talent.

Obviously, you hope to make shots. But you can’t put too much pressure on yourself to make it, because whether or not they go in, you’re creating space everybody else.

It was like a brother-sister type relationship with all of my cousins. Growing up we were always hanging out together. We all kind of looked after each other like brothers and sisters when we went to school and stuff.

I just love basketball.

The way I play – I’m the guy moving, coming off screens, getting up and down the floor. I should be one of the better-conditioned athletes out there.

You’re gonna have pretty bad defeats. But you’ve gotta be able to respond and come back in and compete the next night.

Kyrie is a good guy. Spent a lot of time with him over the years because we were the same class in high school and ACC when he was at Duke. Then I was with him my rookie year in Cleveland.

If you look at all the top shooters in the NBA, guys that might be specialists like how I see myself, they’re always 40 percent and above. So, that’s a personal goal for me to get into that elite three-point shooting percentage.

I kind of look like I work in a Brooklyn coffee shop.

When you have guards that are versatile, it just makes it a lot easier in terms of who you put on the court.

You’ve got to be able to guard hard and then work yourself offensively to get shots.

I know I have a lot of areas and room to improve.

I feel like I take a lot of pride in the patience that I play with.

I liked the idea of being one of the foundations for Coach Bennett’s program and trying to revive UVa basketball.

You don’t really coach high school basketball because it’s a good paycheck. You do it because you love it, care about the kids and you’re just passionate about the game.

I don’t think too highly of myself, but at the same time, I don’t think too lowly of myself.

I have off days all the time too, but nobody really cares when I have an off day. People care when Kyrie does.

I come from a town in Washington state that might not be too familiar to Clevelanders called Chelan. It’s really beautiful. It’s about two-and-a-half hours east of Seattle and two-and-a-half hours west of Spokane. It’s right in the middle of the state.

I’ve grown up with the same people my whole life. I’ve had the same classmates from elementary all the way through graduating.

I think at the end of the day, regardless of who you’re playing against, there’s talent on every single team in the NBA.

If I ever got into trouble with my sisters or was slacking off, it was always my punishment that I couldn’t go to a practice or a game. That was the worst thing in the world.

I think I’ve gotten more comfortable and more confident on the defensive end. I’ve just been able to anticipate things a little bit better instead of reacting to how guys play offensively.

I think Brooklyn is easily one of the best NBA cities out there.

It was really important for me to get a degree that carried some weight, something that I really wanted to do.

You get a lot of accommodations for being on scholarship, but there is too much money floating around in the NCAA to not be giving it to the people earning it.

The decision of where I wanted to go to school was very important to me.

Everybody has a different path to making it in this league. I was fortunate to get an opportunity here in Brooklyn.

If you stay around in the NBA long enough, you’re going to bounce around, your teammates are going to bounce around, but those friendships, they remain constant.

I know what my game is and what I do well and I’m just going to keep trying to I,prove and make sure I’m consistent as possible in those areas.

Yeah, I think any time you’re comfortable playing within a system you’re going to play more aggressive. You’re going to play with more confidence.

Preparation is such a big thing and you should never take that for granted.

There aren’t a lot of second chances for second-round picks.

Obviously playing on a team like the Cavs in 2014, they were championship contenders, not allowing a ton of young guys to come in and play through mistakes. If you weren’t helping the team have success you weren’t really afforded a lot of different opportunities.

They have great restaurants, good nightlife. Everything is here in Brooklyn that you can possibly want.

I played football growing up so I used to lift quite a bit when I was in high school. And then I got to Virginia I was lucky, good strength and conditioning program and coach there.

You can play basketball – if you’re lucky – for about 10 years. So, you’re going to have to have something to fall back on.

I’ve been No. 12 my entire career. My cousin Nikki Haerling was a good basketball player, she wore No. 12 in high school and college, and my dad, he was No. 12 as well. I actually just started wearing it when I got to high school my freshman year.

None of us are perfect all the time.

If someone has my number that I don’t know and texts me a considerable amount I would just block the number.

Obviously, back-to-backs are tough… but everyone goes through it in this league.

I’ve kind of given up trying to evaluate college guys, especially guys from Virginia, just because of my bias.

I keep in touch with all the guys that I was training with in Chicago during the pre-draft process; Nik Stauskas, Mitch McGary, Adrien Payne, and Dougie McDermott. We all got pretty close training together and we just keep tabs every now and then.