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Ricky Rubio

(1990) Basketball Player

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Ricky Rubio is a basketball player.

Quick Facts About Ricky Rubio

Born: October 21, 1990
Profession: Basketball Player

About Ricky Rubio

Ricard Rubio Vives, known as Ricky Rubio, is a Spanish professional basketball player for Joventut Badalona in the Liga ACB. He became the youngest player ever to appear in the Liga ACB on 15 October 2005 at age 14. He made his EuroLeague debut on 24 October 2006, just days after turning 16.

Quotes by Ricky Rubio · Page 2

I use a lot of Pinterest to follow trends.

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Barcelona is very similar to Santa Monica.

Barcelona

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You have to try to play well and focus on your game, and that's it.

Focus

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I have to learn how to be more vocal. I'm not good at that and I have to improve.

Education

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I make a lot of mistakes. One time I mixed dark blue and black in a suit.

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The thing that you have to do is... try to be yourself.

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I like culture. So D.C. is a great city for me.

City

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It's one dream to go to the N.B.A. It's true.

Dream

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What I've been doing, since I am young, is leading by example, practicing hard and doing everything on the court.

Court

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There's a lot of coaches who are just going to try to save themselves before saving you.

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I loved Minny. I still do. And that place, those people - they will always be in my heart.

Heart

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It's just something, 'Should I run the team or should I score?' I gotta learn how to balance that, and be more…

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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.

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In 2001, I watched Kinder Bologna win the EuroLeague, and I thought, Damn, I want to the win that some day. I…

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You don't find a lot of coaches who cares more about you as a person than the results.

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I always try to have fun, because that's why I like playing basketball; I love it. And sometimes it's hard when you…

Basketball

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When your name is out there in the media, you're thinking like, this can be my last game. Coming from Europe, it's…

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In Spain, we have a pretty good league - for me, I think it's the second-best league in the world. They play…

Football

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By signing a contract, you accept the conditions, but there are ways and forms. Players are privileged, but those who are in…

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A lot of people, a lot of players, come to the league knowing 'I can do that, I can do this, I…

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Sometimes at night during the season I was going through hell. Waking up in, who knows, Sacramento, in L.A., in the middle…

Alone

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When I tweet in English, Spanish people get mad at me. When I tweet in Spanish, English people get mad at me.…

English people

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I know where my weaknesses are. I am not as athletic as other point guards in the league. I can't dunk over…

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At the end of the day, we're here to play basketball but to help the community, too. It's something that makes me…

Basketball

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Basketball isn't one-on-one. It's five-on-five, plus the bench.

Basketball

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I never jumped too high, I'm going to be honest.

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I try to help the team. It doesn't matter if you have to score 50 points or zero.

Football

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I've been through good things and bad things that helped me grow up.

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I love playing basketball, but the most important thing to me is my family.

Basketball

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It's hard when you're missing a lot of players.

Football

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If you do the same mistake over and over again, it means you're not learning.

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I prefer a small town where everybody knows everybody.

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Losses will come. That's for sure. There's nobody in the league who has gone 82-0.

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I'm not a man of many words, I don't like to talk much. I prefer deeds, sacrifices and showing that what matters…

Deeds

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I grew up idolizing Spanish basketball, and to be a part of another chapter of our country's success was really special to…

Basketball

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I have to say the truth. It's a dream for everybody to play in the best league in the world.

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When things get complicated, you have to bring out your character and put more wood on the fire.

Character

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You can do whatever you want, you can run a lot, but playing the game and practicing, it's just different.

Game

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Every time you don't make the playoffs, you have something inside that you want to prove again next year.

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I try to do it in both languages: English and Spanish. But sometimes I just Tweet in Spanish.

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