Ray Allen

I want kids to believe that I was just like they were, and to believe that they, too, can aspire to great things.

Ray Allen

I’m always ready to step up and take that shot.

Ray Allen

It’s important for parents to put kids in positions where they can succeed and to teach competition because competition exists not only in sports.

Ray Allen

God doesn’t care whether or not you make your next jump shot. God will give you a lot of things in life, but he’s not going to give you your jump shot. Only hard work will do that.

Ray Allen

When people say God blessed me with a beautiful jump shot, it really pisses me off. I tell those people, ‘Don’t undermine the work I’ve put in every day.’ Not some days. Every day.

Ray Allen

As a human being, it’s in your nature, when somebody says something about you negatively, to defend yourself and lash back. That’s what we all have to learn not to do. You have to forgive a person. And when you forgive a person, you have to forgive yourself.

Ray Allen

As a team, we’re all inside a bubble. Each of us only has so much room to operate. You have to carve out your space and recognize that because of someone else’s needs, you might have to compromise a bit.

Ray Allen

Every camp I do, I’m always trying to figure out how I can help kids get better, so holding the actual title of coach, that doesn’t matter to me. In life, I’m a coach. I think we all are.

Ray Allen

Everyone has to do their job. Everyone has to buy into it and believe in what we’re trying to do regardless of who’s playing and who’s not.

Ray Allen

God could care less whether I can shoot a jump shot.

Ray Allen