Rublev, ‘Responsability’ and Steph Curry

Q&A after Doha victory.

Q. So which is the word that you wrote on your shoes?

Andrey Rublev:

“No, the word is ‘responsibility’, and in the beginning I was writing it on my wrist. But because this part of the skin, not every pen can take it, it was tough to find a pen that will write here. Then I found a spot that any pen is working on the finger, so I write it on the finger. But the thing is, doesn’t matter, wrist or finger, after couple of games, with the sweat, everything was gone. Then I was watching one of the videos from Steph Curry that he was, I don’t know, explaining some things what helps him, I don’t know, to be kind of in his own way, but triggers him in a good way, some tools that he’s using. One of them he said that he’s writing some messages to himself, and he’s writing them on his shoes. Then I thought that this idea that I’m writing on the hand is perfect, like he’s doing on the shoes, because it stays there, it doesn’t go away. Every time you put the shoes on you’re writing it, so it’s perfect. I start to do the same thing, just with the word that helps me.”

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