Top 30 Jason Kidd Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “We’re going to turn this team around 360 degrees.”

— Jason Kidd

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2. “There’s always room for improvement. We have a nucleus that’s pretty good. You want players that will help.”

— Jason Kidd

3. “Good teams beat you with speed. Great teams beat you with spacing and timing.”

— Jason Kidd

4. “Championship teams are built on being prepared, playing unselfishly and being held accountable.”

— Jason Kidd

5. “Michael, if you can’t pass, you can’t play. – Coach Dean Smith to Michael Jordan in his freshman year We’re going to turn this team around 360 degrees.”

— Jason Kidd

6. “Winning is the best deodorant.”

— Jason Kidd

7. “My job is not to scream and yell, my job is to cheer you and be positive. If you miss four shots, I’m still going to pass to you.”

— Jason Kidd

8. “My biggest fear had always been getting hurt, and not being able to leave the game as a player on my own terms.”

— Jason Kidd

9. “The business always gets in the way of basketball.”

— Jason Kidd

10. “I try to anticipate exactly where my teammates are going to be. Sometimes I look good. Sometimes I look bad.”

— Jason Kidd

11. “A lot of late nights in the gym, a lot of early mornings, especially when your friends are going out, you’re going to the gym, those are the sacrifices that you have to make if you want to be an NBA basketball player.”

— Jason Kidd

12. “I love the competition no matter at what age.”

— Jason Kidd

13. “I came in the league as not a shooter, not a scorer. My game was to play defense and make my teammates better. The most important stat to me was that left column – winning. Nothing else matters.”

— Jason Kidd

14. “When I was a little kid I used to play with guys twice my age, so, I was the last one picked, so if I picked I knew that I had to get the ball to the scorer if I wanted to stay on the court, so that was pretty much my job.”

— Jason Kidd

15. “I have had some bad shooting games but that doesn’t stop me from getting the ball to my teammates.”

— Jason Kidd

16. “Growing up, Magic Johnson was my idol. He was a good example. He could always pass the ball extremely well and get his teammates involved.”

— Jason Kidd

17. “I think we’re going in the right direction.”

— Jason Kidd

18. “Hard work does pay, and you just have to continue to work, and you got two guys, when you’re talking about Gary and myself, we have a God-given talent, but we worked at it and we’re happy to be where we are today.”

— Jason Kidd

19. “I’m a high-risk taker on the court in the sense of trying to squeeze things in there.”

— Jason Kidd

20. “Kobe enjoys that situation. Stepping up and making the big basket or being involved in a key play.”

— Jason Kidd

21. “Every team that I’ve gone to has had trouble winning games. I guess that’s what I’ve been put on this earth to do, to fix it.”

— Jason Kidd

22. “I’ve got to play free agency out, and I’ve got to look at all of my options.”

— Jason Kidd

23. “Passing is contagious. There’s nothing better than making the pass that gives someone an easy hoop.”

— Jason Kidd

24. “I’m a football guy at heart; maybe I should have played football for a living instead, because I play a lot of football videogames, I’m really into them.”

— Jason Kidd

25. “The 76ers currently play very good basketball, and we don’t. However, we are still only one win behind them. If we continue to improve, we should be on the top of our division at the end of the regular season.”

— Jason Kidd

26. “I’ve learned a lot at home and been able to take what I’ve learned at home to the court.”

— Jason Kidd

27. “Yeah, I play a lot of their games. Going way back to Bulls vs. Lakers to the later Live stuff, I go at it quite a bit. More than anything tough, I play Madden.”

— Jason Kidd

28. “I also play a little bit of Tiger Woods once in awhile. Get on the golf course there, and pretend that I’m beating him.”

— Jason Kidd

29. “I don’t care what sport you’re talking about. What you see with great franchises is structure – a structure that doesn’t just take you from year to year, but day to day.”

— Jason Kidd

30. “I’m a big fan of the game. Seeing these young guys play at the level that they are, I just wish I was 22, 23 years old so I can handle the game the way they do.”

— Jason Kidd

31. “I think that realistically we can shoot for the title this year. If we stay healthy and be persistent throughout the season, I think we have good chance to go all the way.”

— Jason Kidd

32. “If there wasn’t any business and it was just strictly basketball, then there would be no issue, it would probably be done by now. But the team has to protect.”

— Jason Kidd

33. “There are many really good teams in our conference this season. Miami, Indiana and Detroit will be our fiercest opponents this year. But we just have to focus on our game and be patient with the realistic hope that we’ll be on top after all is said and done.”

— Jason Kidd

34. “Yeah, I’m excited about it, my teammates are telling me to look at the basket, so that’s what I’m trying to do.”

— Jason Kidd