A biography for Serge Ibakahasn’t been written yet.
“I'm not gonna try to force to look for threes, but if the three is open, I'm gonna shoot it.”
“I believe in God, and I believe in miracles, and I believe that everything is possible.”
“That's one thing you can never go wrong as an athlete, try to connect with the fans.”
“I come from zero and I've had to push myself up to where I am today. I'm not going to give up and I'm going to keep pushing.”
“That's where I get my toughness in mind. From my background when I was young, everything I've been through, everything I was going through in my life. It helped me a lot, it helped me to be strong.”
“You need to love to play defense.”
“Always feels good to give back.”
“When I say about 'dream is free,' I don't only mean about basketball or to be in the NBA like Serge Ibaka. No. I mean in general, in anything you do. You can do anything you want, anything you dream about. You can do it. You just have to know the dream is free. And dream is free for everybody.”
“I'm trying to do whatever it takes to help my team.”
“One of the things I learned playing on a good team is when the team wins, when you make the playoffs, everybody looks good.”
“I am Mafuzzy Man, original man, 100 percent pure, man.”
“I just like to look nice.”
“I can play both ends of the floor.”
“I don't care how good you play, if the team is losing, it doesn't matter.”
“Where I come from, dressing is a culture. When I go back home, I cannot dress bad. I cannot miss, or people will be like, 'What's going on with you, Serge? Did you lose your mind, or what?' That's the culture.”
“I learned a lot in Spain.”
“My focus is to start my game with my defense every night.”
“I like to always be able to contest shots. If you play against a player like Al Jefferson - he likes to pump-fake, so you need to be alert and quick. If he pump-fakes you and you go up, when you come back you need to go right back up to contest his shot.”
“I'd read about NBA players in magazines when I was growing up in Congo, but I had never actually seen what NBA basketball looked like because we didn't have access to a satellite for TV.”
“You can't force people to love you. If you love somebody, you love them because you love them. People who love you, it doesn't matter; if you're good or bad, they will still love you.”