Rudy Gobert

“When you know where you want to go, you're mentally tough.”

“It hurts to see other people calling Jazz fans racist.”

“It's a tremendous amount of fans in France that love basketball, that follow it every day even though the games are at like two or three in the morning.”

“At the end of my life, I just want to make sure I made a big difference in this world.”

“To be honest, I love being in Utah so I think most people have the wrong idea about the city, about the place.”

“Even though I didn't have a lot of material things, I had the love and education and all together a lot of kids don't have the same chances, so the goal is to give some chances to the kids that don't have it.”

“I'm motivated every night.”

“Like I always say, it's a five-on-five game.”

“You don't want your opponent to score. You don't want your guy to score and once you get better at it, you get used to it, it becomes a mindset. You just try to do it every game.”

“I think I learned basketball. I learned a lot.”

“I'm just working every day and keep watching film and keep building chemistry with my teammates.”

“My mom probably has a record player. I might need to get one.”

“I'm able to impact people's lives by the way I play, but there's so much more things I can do so there is no limit to what I can do.”

“I want to stay with the Jazz.”

“It's something I take a lot of pride in doing, in being the best defensive player in the world, in helping my teammates every night.”

“Obviously, the basketball career doesn't last forever.”

“When I was young, I didn't watch basketball, but I watched 'Space Jam' with Michael Jordan so he was my favorite player.”

“I don't like to fall short. It's tough. Just make the right play when I'm open, and I'll thrust to the rim and be aggressive.”

“All the coaches preach about defense. Every day they talk about defense, they talk about how important it is to get stops in order to win basketball games.”

“The more you see, the more you know, the more you feel like you can help others and the more you feel like you can help the team win.”