33 Klay Thompson Quotes On Shooting Confidence, Basketball And Success

The best (and funniest) Klay Thompson quotes:

Klay Thompson is a professional basketball player who plays for the Golden State Warriors in the NBA.

Klay is known for his elite shooting ability, particularly from three-point range.

Klay is a four-time NBA champion with the Warriors in 2015, 2017, 2018, and 2022. He has also been named an NBA All-Star five times.

Klay owns the record for most three-pointers made in a single game with 14 which he did in 2018.

Besides being a knock-down shooter, Thompson is also one of the better defensive guards in the league.

Off the court, Klay is known for being one of the most laid back, chill, and down-to-earth players in the NBA.

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Klay Thompson Basketball Quotes

1. "Not missing games, miss one game due to injury in my career, and that even hurt me to miss that game, but I just love to get out there and compete, both ends of the ball..."

2. "I'm trying to get a lower center of gravity. I think, when I play at a lower level, it helps my overall game, just my explosiveness to the rim with the ball in my hands. When I play with a lower center of gravity, my legs are always in my shot instead of playing vertical out there where I don't get the same explosion or legs into my shot."

3. "I knew my worth. I knew I could be one of the best 2-guards in the league. I'm not going to be bashful about it anymore."

4. "I think I might not be the best vertical athlete, but I think I'm quicker than people give me credit for. That was the biggest knock on me coming out of college."

5. "It's such an incredible experience to play in front of my friends and family. I would go to Staples as a high school basketball player with my pops, just dreaming of playing on that floor, playing against the best in the world. Now to be here and be a part of it, I don't lose sight of that perspective of how great this opportunity is. I'm just excited to do it in a building where all my hoop dreams came about."

6. "I played point guard growing up and I played quarterback so vision was always in my repertoire."

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Klay Thompson Quotes About Shooting Confidence

7. "...I don't think I'm afraid to take the big shot. If I'm 2-for-15, I'm not afraid to take that shot, make it 3-for-16."

8. "I don't care if I miss 100 shots in a row. I'm never gonna stop shooting the ball."

9. "No matter how many I miss, I'm confident I'll make the next one."

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Success And Winning Quotes By Klay Thompson

10. "I know to win a championship, you're not going to do it alone. You're going to have to have a great supporting cast."

11. "It just feels good to say we're the best team in the world, with the best player in the world."

12. "Steve held us to a high standard. He told us he was going to when we first met him at the USA camp. He's been a great leader. I mean, the guy always keeps his composure. He has an amazing mind for the game, and man, Steve, I'm just proud of him. The way he's balanced everybody and let us know what our roles are, he's been great for us. Him and the whole coaching staff. We all deserve this together, we work so hard."

13. "I don't know if I was born for it, but I definitely worked my butt off to get to this point."

14. "I'm out there playing, out there competing. That's what's most important. If you do those things and give it your all, you can accept that the accolades and great shooting nights will come."

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Klay On Kobe

15. "I'm a huge Kobe fan; obviously, he was my biggest inspiration. I'm just gonna play my hardest to honestly honor him and Gigi because, without his play and all those years of me viewing his tenacity on the court, I would not be the athlete I am today."

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Klay Quotes About His Injuries And Overcoming Adversity

16. "It's not the end of the road for me. I still know I have greatness ahead of me. This was the first full season in three years I've had to make it through start to finish healthy, so that's a positive, and I know I'm gonna come back even better next year."

17. "That time gave me so much gratitude to do what I do. It gave me perspective on what really matters." 

18. "My appreciation of the stuff we have to do every day to play this game is a lot higher than it used to be. The losses you take. The shots you miss. The off-nights and slow mornings. All of it. It’s special."

19. On winning the 2022 NBA Finals: “This one feels so special -- so special. I appreciated the others, but this one is different. I’ll always cherish it because it feels like completing a journey."

20. "Sometimes I forget just how successful and how lucky I've been to be a part of championship teams, and All-Star games, and gold medals. When you want to get back to that level so badly, you can kinda get in your own way. And rather than forcing it, [Steve Kerr and I] had a conversation about just enjoying this last chapter of my career and how lucky I truly am to still be playing this game."

21. "You got two options...it's either fight or flight and I'm fighting all day."

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Funny Klay Thompson Quotes 

22. "I never tried Pokemon Go. I figured I'd get too addicted to it. I did play Pokemon Snap on Nintendo 64, so that window is closed for me."

23. After the Warriors championship parade: "I'm tired. I want to go eat a sandwich."

24. On the Warriors: "You kinda see what you get. The ball goes in the hoop a lot."

25. "I'm an avid collector of robes."

26. "I didn’t know everything would go viral as it did. I forgot the internet was so worldwide. It is undefeated."

27. "As a rule, I do not approve of messing around with coffee. No sugar, no milk, no chocolate, hazelnuts, cinnamon, no nothing.... Just drink it black, the way God does."

28. "Once we go on a little win streak, it will not matter, and this will be in the past like a ponytail."

29. "I make the best paper airplane on the West Coast."

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Other Klay Thompson Quotes

30. "I don't try to attach myself to technology so much. I'm on my phone a lot, though, but in the off season, I try to get away from it as much as I can."

31. "I tried to swim as much as possible. Being in Southern California in the summer time, it's so nice because you have the warm beaches, so I try to swim every day."

32. "When you're overseas and on a trip for awhile, it's tough to stay groomed. You miss your routine."

33. "It's my dream to one day be an athletic director of a high school slash high school coach. When I'm done playing, everything I've learned, I just want to give back to the kids who are coming up."

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