Baron Davis Quotations

We're getting there. We're trying to keep ourselves in ballgames. We just got to close it out.

I am the donation to the foundation.

I just stopped liking basketball. And then you dribbling down the court and having the owner like cuss at you and call you an idiot. I didnt even look forward to coming to the games, and if the owner [Donald Sterling] came to the game, I definitely was not gonna have a good game because it was just like, how do you play when the main heckler in the gym is the owner of the team, and hes telling you how much he hates you and calling out your name?

I always loved the Clippers. You root for the underdog. Obviously, everybody in L.A. is a Laker fan, but deep down inside, you root for the Clippers. If you're a true Los Angelean, that's how it happens. You always want the Clippers to do well.

I played with Mike Dunleavy Jr., and we got a great relationship on the Warriors. Knowing him and now knowing his dad, all I know is he's a man of his word. Anything that he's ever said to me has been honest and I respect that.

I wish Elton Brand the best. He's a great guy. He's always going to be a great friend of mine, regardless of what goes on.

For me this was never a money issue, it was about being rich in your heart. To come home, and to be in the place where your dream first started, 15 minutes away from where my grandfather built my first basketball court, is a dream come true.

The adrenaline gets pumping and you just got to forget about [injuries] and play.

People compare me to Isiah Thomas because of my quickness and change-of-direction, the way I change speeds and run the team.

I think the more aggressive I am on defense helps me to get easier buckets and get in a good grove.

We're a rhythm team. If we're not playing to a certain rhythm, a certain beat, a certain pace, then we have to make adjustments and I think tonight we let the Lakers dictate, dictate, dictate and then we got down and then we tried to force the tempo.

We're just trying to get a win at this point. Can't talk about playoffs when you're losing.

We're showing flashes of brilliance. The key now is to sustain it. People are excited about us in town. I hear about it all the time when I'm out there in the community. But it won't mean a thing if we can't keep it going.

OK, there's T.J. and . . . oh, there's Baron. Over there.

She don't understand -- I'm in grind mode, ... It's what I do in the summer. I grind. I hustle. I don't have time to get no haircut.

I was supposed to go on pick and roll, but I got isolated, and usually I can get a shot off. Tonight, I wasn't able to do it. ... I was confident I would be able to get a shot off. That's something I live for. I'm very disappointed in myself.

I felt at the beginning of the season, and I still do, that we have one of the top backcourts in the league. We just have to continue to play like it.

He was carrying us throughout the whole game. Guys should be inspired by that and want to sacrifice themselves. We can help out by playing at the level he's playing at. We haven't been able to get production from people that we used to get it from and people that we need. I ain't calling nobody out. Myself included.

He made a good move, but I made a few good ones myself.

He's been playing well for us, carrying us throughout the whole game. Guys are inspired by that, want to sacrifice themselves to get him shots and help out and play at the level that he's playing at.

He was hot and has been hot for a while. It is good for us that he is playing at the level he is playing at and he keeps us in a lot of ballgames.

Just whipping that ball around and sharing, guys knocking down threes. Team play is the most important thing to me. I'm not really averaging a lot of points. But at the same time, we're winning, I'm happy, my assists are up. It's fun when we share the ball and make the extra pass.

I think the defensive energy was there, it's just we got our hand caught in the cookie jar.

My personal expectation is that I definitely want to finish as the best point guard in the NBA, and that translates into us winning, ... If I'm the best point guard in the NBA, it means that we're winning and we're a playoff contending team. It's just motivation for me to know that a lot of people have me low on the totem pole right now. I'm just trying to prove them wrong.

That's the type of energy we need. It's good to see guys getting an opportunity.... Last year when I came (to the Warriors via a Feb. 24 trade), our bench was so critical. The energy they brought was fun and exciting. That's what we were missing.

We finally started to move the ball and we found a way to exploit them at the offensive end, but in the fourth quarter, we got away from it.

We came out like gangbusters, ... It's going to be exciting. You can see it.

When you're not playing well as a team, you've got to play the players that are giving you the best effort out there on the floor. And no offense -- no knock on anybody because we need everybody on our team -- but Ike has really given us a boost. We'll just see what happens.

We didn't really do a good job of shutting down anybody today.

We stepped our intensity up, played better defense, applied the pressure,

What I'm trying to do is use my body. That way, as I back him down, I can kick it out to other players.

We were not as sharp as we usually are, ... They have very good one-on-one players, and down the stretch we couldn't hit our open 3-point shots.

But, obviously, I don't think that had much to do with it. It's motivation. I'm just going to do what I got to do on the court and let my game speak for itself.

We just played in spurts. You can't play in spurts on the road and expect to win.

We had the game and we let it slip away. We were in control of the game pretty much with a minute to go. From that point on, we've got to manufacture points and make plays and get stops, but we didn't.

Breakfast would be, like, egg whites with tomatoes, turkey sausage and feta cheese. Then for lunch I'd have salmon and spinach or something like that.

Bring it on, ... With the talent that we have, I definitely see that burden being lifted.

Everybody hits a wall. We hit our wall and now it's time for us to start bouncing back and to play better basketball. It was a great win for us, a much-needed win for us.

There's going to be some nights where he's going to score big for us and there's going to be some nights where he won't. His defense and his ability to be out there and to make plays without having the ball is going to be really helpful in the long run.

I used to always brick, ... I used to always do like UCLA or Indiana late game, on the road, and I'll always miss.

Sometimes it happens, sometimes it doesn't. As long as we win.

As long as you're respected among your peers, that's all that matters, and he has my utmost respect. He's proven himself. He continues to reinvent himself. Everything he does on that court, you'd best believe every other player recognizes it. He is a true All-Star and one of the elite point guards.

That's why we're losing. When we're down, we pull together. We trust each other out there on defense, and on offense, we make extra passes. That's the sense of urgency we got to have through the whole game. If we start with it, we stay close.

The whole game was frustrating for me, ... It was an ugly game, but it was a 'W.' Guys stepped up and hit big shots. ... I tried to be a nuisance on defense. I felt like it was an opportunity to go after it (against Crawford), especially down the stretch. I knew he wasn't passing, so I took a gamble.

They pound us on the boards every time they play us. If we can do a better job of rebounding the basketball and close that rebounding gap, we'll be all right.

They're more physical than we are. They really have a great game plan when they play against us. They know what they want to do. They know where they want to attack us and they exploit them. And they pound us in the boards every time we play them.

I tried not to push off too hard on it.

It's all a part of stepping up. It was great tonight that everybody pulled their weight. I always have the utmost confidence in my teammates.

It's good that we got kicked tonight. It lets us know where we stand, and know that we've still got to keep working hard.

It's frustrating. We could have put that game away had we come with the energy we started the game with. It's up to every individual to come mentally prepared and ready to play. If that doesn't happen, we're not going to win.

Derek Fisher and myself, we bring a lot to this team, as far as winning, ... When you want to win, when you experience winning streaks, you get upset when you lose. It feels bad. When you're accustomed to losing, then you really don't have any feelings towards it.

They were trying to show me L.A., ... But I knew more than they did. That was my city.

Anytime you're playing against those two guys, especially the great one in Kobe Bryant, you want to try to be focused as possible on him defensively. Lamar Odom, being one of the rising stars in the league, a triple-threat element ... I think it was really important that we honed in on them defensively.

I'm definitely going to get back. I don't care if it's three games left, four games left, as long as I get back to my full capacity. I think it's in my best interest and my team's best interest that I get healthy and really let the ankle rest.

I Like Chris Paul a lot. He was one of my favorite players when I watched him at Wake Forest. I used to talk about him a lot. I like what he's doing with that team. I like the way he's running the (pick and roll) and adjusting to the whole NBA system. He's definitely, if he continues to work, is going to be a great guard, an All-Star in this league.

I'm just using this training camp as a base to build up my strength, ... We've got a good month until the season starts. We're not in a rush. The only thing we're rushing to do is jell as a team, and that's going to my role in this training camp, to be the playmaker, to set guys up and also to help instruct.

I missed (playing). As for suspensions, I'll never get suspended again.

If you don't outwork your opponent, you're not going to win. And tonight, we got outworked, we got bullied, we got pushed, and we didn't push back until it was too late.

(In the fourth quarter), we put some people in who wanted to play. We got back to playing defense and moving the ball and going down low ... We have to do stuff like that. We have to play people that are going to produce.

I just feel bad because maybe I rushed myself back a little bit too soon. It's been frustrating for me with my ankle and all that. I'm just not myself.

He's established himself as a guy to have that confidence to take that shot.

He's our go-to guy, especially down the stretch. We post him up a lot as well. It's going to be a tough challenge for us, but I think it's something that we're all up to.

I didn't realize how injured I was and how much rest my body needed throughout the summer,

But you live and you learn and that's the whole thing,

Caron came out with great energy and he was unstoppable tonight. We couldn't stop him down low. We didn't have an answer for him.

These kids have already passed the class. They've taken the finals. Basically they're doing busy work.

The damage to the city from Hurricane Katrina is irreplaceable. Thousands of people are homeless. We all know someone who needs help.

a good person, and he's young, which means he is immature.