Tony Parker quotes:

When there is talk about the best point guards, sometimes they dont talk about me. But that is not my main motivation. They can talk about Jason Kidd, Steve Nash, Deron Williams, and Chris Paul. I still have the most rings.

We have a pretty tough schedule coming up. We have to stay strong mentally and must focus on getting better.

If Tim Duncan had 'Knicks' on his jersey, he'd be a god. He'd be more than Patrick Ewing. With four championships and two MVPs, I think people realize he's one of the best ever, but if he played in New York, he'd be way more famous.

Getting up at three in the morning to watch Michael Jordan, I never dreamed one day I would be kissing that trophy.

In France, if you talk to little boys, they know all of the NBA players and not one single Pro A player.

Every night you have different match-ups, and you have 82 games, so physically you are going to get tired. You have to be ready mentally to bring your energy and bring the juice every night.

If Tim Duncan had Knicks on his jersey, he'd be a god.

It hurts. Frankly, it hurts terribly. I have just lived one of the biggest loss of my career. It will be difficult to digest that moment. It is extremely hard to accept. I am disappointed.

I want to follow in my father's footsteps, but do it better.

Well, actually, I'm a bisexual lesbian in a man's body... but it's more complicated than that.

You never know, the way technology is going, we might all use the games for scouting by the time I retire.

When Boston and Orlando told me they were going to pick me at 21 and 22, I figured I don't need to do a workout for a second -round team. Boston and Orlando never drafted me because they said I was too skinny and no European point guard will make it in the League.

I still have a lot of room for improvement. I need to become a more skilled player.

You're going to see ups and downs your whole career.

Experience is everything. It means so much because it enabled me to learn the game even faster. Playing in the playoffs is the best basketball in the world, and if you can learn under that pressure, succeed under that pressure, it gives you more confidence the next year.

I am, first of all, a basketball player. I've done this for so very long... For me, it's been essential to be successful on the court.

For me, speed isn't anything I ever practiced. It's all in the genes. Plus, my mom gave me a lot of vitamins when I was small.

I want to become the first European floor leader to succeed in the NBA. I want to be the standard-bearer and prove we can succeed here.

When I first came in the league, a lot of people were surprised by my knowledge about the history of the game.

My mom was a model, and her laid-back but put-together sensibility really rubbed off on me.

You have to know how to keep things in perspective.

Everything feels like you're in slow motion and everything you do seems like it's about two or three plays of what everybody else is doing.

Playing in the playoffs is the best basketball in the world, and if you can learn under that pressure, succeed under that pressure, it gives you more confidence the next year.

When you win 20 games in a row and then lose four, people ask you, 'What happened?'...That's the beauty of sports.

I don't think I'm boring.

I love being under pressure. Even the pressure put on me by the media. That is how you outdo yourself.

If we go to the conference finals and people say we had a bad season, I'll take that.

The day when I am satisfied with what I have, will be the day I retire from the sport.