Most of the time, you're just trying to be the point guard out there based on the play call and the defense that you're getting; that really dictates where the football goes.
Alex Smith
I wasn't a point guard. I was a killer.
Allen Iverson
It's natural to me. I played point guard my whole life up until my senior year of high school. Most people don't know that. It's just in my game.
Andre Iguodala
My whole life, I've felt like I can do anything on the basketball court, from playing point guard in high school to having to play center one year in high school, doing everything in college and going through different roles in Philadelphia.
I grew up as a point guard, and as a point guard you learn how to navigate situations.
B. J. Armstrong
I can probably go down in history as the best backup point guard ever in NBA history.
Baron Davis
I can't think of much higher praise to give a player than to say, 'This point guard reminds me of Jason Kidd.'
Ben Howland
I think when you have the point guard guarding someone full court and just chasing the guy all around, always in the right spot, it just makes you want to get down in a stance and be his backup and have his help whenever he needs it. Or having the same energy that he has.
Brandon Ingram
I think the most important position in the league now is the point guard.
Chauncey Billups
I've been fortunate to be short my entire life. There's only one position I've ever had to play, and that's point guard. So I've always had to be that leader. And that was my job: you know, to talk.
Chris Paul
I played one year of competitive basketball, actually. I don't remember what grade I was in, maybe middle school or something. I was the point guard - I was the smallest one always. I did my best; I thought I did pretty good. I was always a little bit better at soccer, so I had to make the decision.
Christian Pulisic
The league has changed in so many ways. There are no point guards anymore, there are no centers anymore; it's all positionless basketball.
D'Angelo Russell
A lot of teams - they want a point guard and I am bouncing around, why not put me in those talks and try to get me?
It's hard to be the point guard, especially playing with a young team.
My particular demigod is the Sonics point guard Gary Payton, who is one of the most notorious trash-talkers in the National Basketball Association. He's not really bad. He's only pretend bad - I know that - but he allows me to fantasize about being bad.
David Shields
When you're younger, everyone wants to be a point guard. Everyone wants to shoot fadeaway jump shots all day. Nobody wants to be a big man. Nobody wants to go stand on the block and just set picks.
DeAndre Jordan
I'm happy to feed the squirrels - tree rats with the agility of point guards - but in fair weather, they frighten my finches. They leap from snowbank to porch to feeder and stuff their cheek pouches with chickadee feed.
Donald Hall
Playing point guard is someone's instincts. They're used to that. That's my instincts.
Draymond Green
Yeah, I play a lot of point guard. LeBron plays a lot of point guard. A lot of people are thinking too much on positions.
Dwyane Wade
The point guard is the most important position on the court. They often have to be the best player, not by choice but because that's what the game demands as far as all the thinking you have to do and picking and choosing when to score or pass, things like that.
Eric Bledsoe
At the end of the day, a point guard's got to do his job.
With my game, my biggest asset is being a point guard who can get into the paint.
Once you see the leader of the team, the point guard of the team who has the ball pretty much the whole time in the game directing everybody, I think it just rubs off on everybody.
The Suns keep great point guards here.
There's tons of point guards in this league. There's good point guards on bad teams.
There's always a good point guard in this league.
Every rookie that thought they was good, I went at them to make sure they knew I was the best point guard in the league, and they had to go through me. That's just the way I was.
The point guards that I like are the ones that are playing like point guards.
I'm never going to be a point guard, but you always have guards that get the rebound and take it coast-to-coast.
There's a lot of big guys who can play-make. We put labels like, 'Oh, he's a point guard, he's a center.' But sometimes your center can play-make for you and not just be the center, boxing out for rebounds and playing in the post.
Definitely, my whole life I've played as a point guard. I've tried to get in the paint, and I've tried to develop for others.
To be a point guard, to run the team and have the ball in my hands and try to make plays for others - that's who I am.
Soccer helped especially with my footwork. When I played soccer, I was on offense scoring goals - I didn't pass the ball so much so it probably didn't help much with being a point guard.
When I was a kid I watched Steve Nash, Jason Kidd, Allen Iverson - all these great point guards. But then when I was 14, 15-years-old I found a similar guy who played like me - Beno Udrih. He's lefty too and he played in my hometown so I was a huge fan of his. Then after awhile I saw Manu Ginobili when he was playing in Italy.
I feel like I can defend three different positions: point guards, shooting guards, and small forwards who don't want to play too much in the post.
I play everything but point guard.
When you have a guy like Chris Paul, who's the best point guard in the world, saying I should be an All-Star, and other coaches and players coming up to me and saying I should be an All-Star, it's an unbelievable compliment.
I played the two guard in college, and playing point guard is what I've done all my life.
You don't want to be the selfish point guard. You want to be the guy that gets everybody open, that makes plays, and see the ball move before it goes in.
In college, I got better at playing the 2, kind of got a feel for it coming off screens, found my rhythm. Before that I was a natural point guard.
The point guard thing was I had to figure out how to score when I'm hot, and how to distribute and make sure everybody is happy. Because I can be happy scoring the ball. But when everybody isn't touching the ball, and we're not making the defense move, it's kind of pointless. So, I've got to find a way to keep everybody in the loop.
I am a point guard. It's a job that I'm not scared of.
I'm going to make mistakes, I just have to be able to learn from them as quickly as possible. To learn faster, I watch film of myself and other good point guards, and then breaking down my mistakes and really analyzing them and seeing where I could have made better decisions.
I was an in-between size. I wasn't tall enough to be a real forward, and I probably didn't handle the ball well enough to be a point guard.
I can play off the ball some, and that's fine with me as long as I can be out on the floor. But I am definitely more natural as a point guard than I am as a two guard.
You ask what position I play, I say point guard.
Being from New York, everybody's a point guard. Even when you play in the park, you've got to know how to handle the ball. If you can't handle the ball, you can't really play.
You're not getting any recognition as a point guard if you ain't winning.
I want to be one of those point guards who knock down shots you have to get over the top.
I looked up to Magic Johnson a lot. He was a tall point guard who found his teammates and had a good time.
