A biography for John Stocktonhasn’t been written yet.
“My playing time in 1992 was limited because of an injury I suffered in a practice.”
“If I pass the ball to Karl Malone, he still has to make the shot, or nothing has happened.”
“Why was I able to be able to pass? What did I do right that allowed me to make a pass - any given pass? There's balance; there's vision.”
“I've played games where I thought I played one of my better games, and statistically, there's nothing there, and vice versa. I've never based how I feel about my performance on stats.”
“I had been told I might be drafted in the fourth round. 'Great,' I said at the time.”
“I'm a bartender's son. Some things you never forget.”
“Just because everybody else does something isn't a good enough reason to do anything.”
“You thrive off everybody on your team. If one guy's playing well, that makes your job easier. If a guy's shooting well, it makes your job easier. If a guy's rebounding well, it makes your job easier.”
“I don't go home to parades.”
“You can find advantages to being small.”
“I just always believed that all comments are better face-to-face, whether they're derogatory or whether they're not.”
“I really don't think of myself as the best player on the team.”
“I never thought I'd make it in the NBA, so everything else is gravy.”
“If you think you're doing everything right, then you have a tendency to stand pat.”
“I guess I'd rather be comfortable and play well because I'm comfortable than to get recognition and play someplace where I wouldn't be comfortable and wouldn't enjoy myself.”
“I never consciously thought about going all the way through the 'Gonzaga farm system,' but that's the way it happened.”
“I enjoy coaching.”
“All I know is the same lessons you need to learn at Little League basketball, you need to learn at the upper levels. It's the little things you learn when you're little that apply in college.”
“I've been lucky to have great coaching, great teammates, and a desire to keep getting better. That, slowly over time, helped me grow from an average high school player to the NBA.”
“I don't think you ever hear anybody shoot the last shot and say they didn't think it was in.”