Motivation Quote by Jason Kidd

“I think we’re going in the right direction” is the athlete’s perfect all-purpose shield: hopeful enough to keep fans from revolting, vague enough to avoid promising anything you can’t deliver on a back-to-back in February. Coming from Jason Kidd, a point guard-turned-coach who’s lived every version of NBA pressure, the line reads less like optimism and more like professional risk management.

The intent is to stabilize. Coaches and veteran stars say this when the numbers are messy but the narrative can’t be. It gives ownership and media a sentence that signals progress without conceding weakness. The key word is “think” - a softener that frames the claim as measured, not delusional. “We” distributes responsibility across the locker room, the staff, the front office, even the training room. No single person gets pinned to the outcome.

Subtext: trust the process, stop asking for a timeline. It’s also a subtle boundary-setting move. Kidd isn’t inviting debate about rotations, effort, or trades; he’s closing the door on specifics while implying there are internal benchmarks the public doesn’t see. In modern sports culture, where every possession becomes a referendum on competence, this kind of language functions like PR duct tape: it holds things together until the next game rewrites the mood.

Context matters because Kidd’s career has been built on control - of tempo, of space, of ego. This line is control applied to storytelling: keep morale up, keep scrutiny down, keep the room pointed forward even if “right direction” is still just a compass, not a map.