A biography for Ricky Rubiohasn’t been written yet.
“You try to run to try to have freedom and try to have fun and sometimes you have to take care of the ball.”
“I mean, you want to have fun, but you want to win, too.”
“You have to learn all the plays not only in your position, but you have to know where everybody has to go.”
“It's hard when you're missing a lot of players.”
“What I've been doing, since I am young, is leading by example, practicing hard and doing everything on the court.”
“I like to read psychologist's books. 'The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari,' that's one of my favorites. Those kinds of books.”
“In 2001, I watched Kinder Bologna win the EuroLeague, and I thought, Damn, I want to the win that some day. I remember thinking it was the coolest thing in the world.”
“I feel like having good veterans like I had during my career really helped me improve my game and know the situation that we are.”
“Sometimes losses come and it's hard.”
“The thing that you have to do is... try to be yourself.”
“If I help the team, I don't think of my stats.”
“When you're young, every game and every situation it seems like it's the end of the world sometimes when it's not working.”
“I like Minnesota. But I want to win too.”
“The goal of this sport is team wins.”
“Sometimes you think you have all the time in the world. But the time is now. Sometimes you only have a brief opportunity.”
“I live a life that I never regret any decision.”
“I have to say the truth. It's a dream for everybody to play in the best league in the world.”
“Sometimes at night during the season I was going through hell. Waking up in, who knows, Sacramento, in L.A., in the middle of the night alone in a hotel and thinking, 'Why am I here? Is it really worth it?'”
“I make a lot of mistakes. One time I mixed dark blue and black in a suit.”
“I try to do it in both languages: English and Spanish. But sometimes I just Tweet in Spanish.”