Kevin Wayne Durant is an American professional basketball player for the Golden State Warriors of the National Basketball Association. His achievements and awards are NBA championship, an NBA Most Valuable Player Award, the Bill Russell NBA Finals Most Valuable Player Award, the NBA All-Star Game Most Valuable Player Award, four NBA scoring titles, the NBA Rookie of the Year Award, and two Olympic gold medals. Famous Kevin Durant quotes will inspire you to work hard and push yourself beyond your limits to make your dreams a reality.
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Best Kevin Durant Quotes
Hard work beats talent when talent fails to work hard. – Kevin Durant
With everything I do, I just try to be myself. – Kevin Durant
It’s hard to play well, but it’s easy to work hard. – Kevin Durant
My time is now. – Kevin Durant
Everything in my life, I had to take it. They are not going to give it to you out of sympathy. I wouldn’t want it any other way. – Kevin Durant
I know that the hard work got me here. And the day I stop working hard, this can all go away. – Kevin Durant
I don’t know what I’m going to do tomorrow. I just know for sure I’m going to keep playing basketball. – Kevin Durant
Work harder than your opponent. – Kevin Durant
I’m just trying to grow. That’s one thing I told myself is, don’t worry about who people say is the best player. – Kevin Durant
My mother taught me to always be strong and always work hard. She’s been working hard her whole life for me and my brother. I’m a lot like her in that I work hard for what I want. She taught me that. – Kevin Durant
My style has changed and evolved mainly because I’ve grown to have more confidence in myself. – Kevin Durant
Whoever want my spot can play me one-on-one for it. – Kevin Durant
What you want to do is try to separate emotion and try to play a solid and focused game. Then you try to figure out how to feel afterwards. – Kevin Durant
Experience is the best teacher. I’ve been through a lot – going to the Olympics, going to the Finals, having a lot of good games and having a lot of bad games. It’s a rollercoaster ride and I’m just happy I’m a part of it. If it was easy, then everybody could do it. – Kevin Durant
I just loved being in the gym. It was tough at times. Sometimes I wanted to quit, but I’m glad I stuck with it. – Kevin Durant
I’m busy working on every aspect of my game – defense, shooting, rebounding – but I really want to become a better overall team player. Help my teammates become better players out on the court in order to win more ball games. – Kevin Durant
You know, I think more people should watch women’s basketball. It’d do so much for the game. – Kevin Durant
It’s hard to find intelligence, character and unselfishness all at the same time. That’s rare in any profession, but it’s what makes a champion. – Kevin Durant
I’ve got a long way to go to being the ultimate best but I think my time is now. And I’m starting to enter my prime. – Kevin Durant
I just want to grow spiritually with the Lord. I’m keeping strong at it, just trying to make my walk with faith a little better. – Kevin Durant
The off-season is where you put in the most work. You prepare at this time of the year so that you can be ready to win a championship. – Kevin Durant
I always want to win because I never want to sit out on the sidelines outside. – Kevin Durant
I’m not a guy that’s going to brag or feel like I’m better than the group. – Kevin Durant
When people are used to you doing something, they want you to stay in that lane. – Kevin Durant
Basketball is just a platform in order for me to inspire people. – Kevin Durant
I’m a basketball player. That’s what I do and what I love but that’s just not all who I am. I’m talented in a lot of different areas. – Kevin Durant
So many people doubted me. They motivated me every single day to be who I am. – Kevin Durant
Inspirational Kevin Durant Quotes
- With a versatile player, there’s no spot on the court you can’t pass him the ball. You can do anything. – Kevin Durant
- Twitter is a place where I can let people know what type of person I am, and I got some good feedback from it. More good than bad, so it’s a good outlet to let people know who I am. – Kevin Durant
- I’m busy working on every aspect of game; defense, shooting, rebounding, but I really want to become a better overall team player. Help my teammates become better players out on the court in order to win more ball games. – Kevin Durant
- My wildest dreams are when I’m wide awake. – Kevin Durant
- When people are used to you doing something, they want you to stay in that lane. – Kevin Durant
- Every memory I had growing up was involving a basketball. I didn’t go to the prom and stuff like that. It was always basketball for me. – Kevin Durant
- I’m like a chameleon. I adapt to my situation. It’s very slowed down here. I like it that way. I’m a guy that’s very reserved, quiet and shy myself. – Kevin Durant
- It’s fun that I get to live out my dream every single day. It’s a blessing. I can’t lose sight of that and I’ve just got to keep pushing. – Kevin Durant
- My mom just wants to make sure that my heart is always in whatever I do and I’m in things for the right reasons. – Kevin Durant
- I’ve heard a few times, in three or four years, this league is going to be yours. I don’t like that. Because I think I’m established now. My time is now. – Kevin Durant
- I feel like it’s easy to be the best player when you don’t have good players around you. I feel like it’s harder to stand out when you have great players around you. I pride myself on standing out wherever I am. I pride myself on working hard wherever I go. And I feel like these guys embraced me. – Kevin Durant
- Everything has been such a whirlwind ever since I stepped foot in the league and everything has been like a dream, so I’m just blessed to be in this position. – Kevin Durant
- I fell so many times and got back up. I been through the toughest times with my family, but…I’m still standing. – Kevin Durant
- I can score the basketball, but I think I can pass pretty well, or I can make the correct pass. I’m not the type of guy who’s just going to throw the ball inbounds to a guy who’s wide open. I can make the right pass. – Kevin Durant
- The clothes are not making me, if I like it, that’s all that matters. It’s not about the clothes. It’s about how I am as a person and how confident I am. – Kevin Durant
- Whoever wants my spot can play me one-on-one for it. – Kevin Durant
- My acting coach I’ve got here, Richard Lawson, he’s been doing good, just telling me to calm down sometimes and just be me. – Kevin Durant
- I’m just trying to grow. One thing I’ve told myself is, don’t worry about who people say is the best player. – Kevin Durant
- I’ve failed so many times and got back up. I’ve been through the toughest times, but I’m still standing. – Kevin Durant
- I learned how to pass when I was real young. That’s one thing I always knew how to do was find an open man. – Kevin Durant
Famous Kevin Durant Quotes About Success and Life
- I want to show people who I really am, especially aspiring basketball players who want to be at this level. That’s what I’m about. – Kevin Durant
- In this league, experience means a lot. – Kevin Durant
- With everything I do, I just try to be myself. – Kevin Durant
- My friends are happy for me, and that’s all that matters. – Kevin Durant
- We live in a world of what have you done for me lately. We don’t remember the day before sometimes. Think back five, six, years ago what he was doing. It’s unheard of. – Kevin Durant
- It feels good to be a part of history. – Kevin Durant
- I’ve been more content with just who I am. – Kevin Durant
- You gotta win. That’s all it takes. – Kevin Durant
- I fell in love with the game because I had teammates that pushed me to be the best that I can be. – Kevin Durant
- Chemistry is important. If you like teammates, it’s going to be easier to play with them on the court. – Kevin Durant
- I want to go down as a winner. – Kevin Durant
- I’ll play all five positions if my team needs me to. – Kevin Durant
- People always say: ‘You’re one of the top three players in the world, that’s cool. There’s billions of people in the world and you’re in the top three, that’s really cool.’ I’m tired of settling for that. I’m tired of hearing that. – Kevin Durant
- I was the second-best player in high school. I was the second pick in the draft. I’ve been second in the MVP voting three times. I came in second in the Finals. I’m tired of being second. I’m not going to settle for that. I’m done with it. – Kevin Durant
- Trial and error is only going to make you a better player. – Kevin Durant
- Our best years are only ahead of us, so we got to continue to keep pushing. – Kevin Durant
- I like to sit on things and digest them and then I’ll figure out my next move… – Kevin Durant
- There are so many people that doubted me. They motivated me every single day to be who I am. – Kevin Durant
- You know, I don’t want to stand out too much. I want to stay quiet and go to work. – Kevin Durant
- Winning is all about the journey. The journey is better than the destination. – Kevin Durant
- Every memory I had growing up was involving a basketball. I didn’t go to the prom and stuff like that. It was always basketball for me. – Kevin Durant
- The odds were stacked against us (him and his mom), everybody told us that we weren’t supposed to be here. You would yell at me to run up the hill, tell me to do more pushups, you made me believe. – Kevin Durant
- It’s about competition. When you play against the best, it brings the best out of you as well. – Kevin Durant
Motivational Kevin Durant Quotes
- I’ve been second my whole life. I was the second-best player in high school, the second pick in the NBA draft, second in the MVP voting three times, I finished second in the finals. I’m tired of being second. I’m not going to settle for that. – Kevin Durant
- I was the second-best player in high school. I was the second pick in the draft. I’ve been second in the MVP voting three times. I came in second in the Finals. I’m tired of being second. I’m not going to settle for that. I’m done with it. – Kevin Durant
- When you’ve got people behind you, you can do whatever. – Kevin Durant
- With a versatile player, there’s no spot on the court you can’t pass him the ball. You can do anything. – Kevin Durant
- Mom, you the real MVP. – Kevin Durant
- I’ve learned what it feels like to lose, believe me. But I think, in the end, that is just going to make winning that much better. – Kevin Durant
- I like the nucleus that we have. I’m excited. I want to be here as long as possible. It’s like family. I love being here. – Kevin Durant
- I was always in the gym. People would look at me crazy because I spent so much time there. But that’s what it was about. I’m glad I did it. – Kevin Durant
- It feels good to come here and be a winning program. – Kevin Durant
- It’s fun that I get to live out my dream every single day. It’s a blessing. I can’t lose sight of that and I’ve just got to keep pushing. – Kevin Durant
- I want to be a champion. – Kevin Durant
- I like something simple and traditional, like dinner and a movie. The best way to get to know someone is to have a conversation over dinner. And steak houses have a nice atmosphere – the lights are dim, and they usually have a band playing. – Kevin Durant
- You hear all these stories about, ‘There’s one in a million guys that make it to the NBA and stay there.’ To see people cheering for me and when they say my name, it’s just crazy. It’s still crazy to me. – Kevin Durant
- I look at my jersey and see the NBA logo, I’m like, ‘I didn’t think I’d be here.’– Kevin Durant
- I was just a big fan of tattoos always growing up, and I wanted something cool that symbolizes what I’ve been through in my life, and everything on my chest and my back is like a collage. – Kevin Durant
- This was the hardest road because I don’t know anybody here. I’ve never lived in this community, never played for this team and I took a leap. – Kevin Durant
- I’ve heard a few times, in three or four years, this league is going to be yours. I don’t like that. Because I think I’m established now. – Kevin Durant
- I feel as though I’ve proved myself these last five years that I can be one of the top players in the league. – Kevin Durant
- I feel good doing it. It’s not like guys are stripping me at half-court or I’m just losing the ball dribbling. I think I’m handling the ball pretty well, just trying to make good passes, man. – Kevin Durant
- My dream was to become a rec league coach. I love basketball so much, I love playing it, I just never thought I’d make it to college, NBA, or be standing up here today. It is a surreal feeling. So many people doubted me and motivated me. I failed so many times and got back up. I got through the toughest times with my family, but I’m still standing. – Kevin Durant
- I don’t watch a lot of other basketball away from the gym. But I do look at LeBron’s box score. I want to see how many points, rebounds and assists he had, and how he shot from the field. If he had 30 points, nine rebounds and eight assists, I can tell you exactly how he did it, what type of shots he made and who he passed to. – Kevin Durant
- I’ve just got to let my teammates know in practice, without even telling them, that I don’t think I’m ahead of anybody. – Kevin Durant
- I would describe my style as off the wall. I like stuff that doesn’t match. I just like to stand out. – Kevin Durant
