Draymond Green Quotes
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The more time you spend with somebody, the more your relationship grows.
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My uncle, my dad always made sure I had guard skills. But as far as defending everybody, that wasn't really my mindset until my rookie year.
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I think it's cool to read that Draymond Green is transcending the NBA. I also think it's cool to read that Draymond Green is terrible.
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Become a good all-around human being.
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A person who can go out and get 40 is going to get a lot more respect than somebody who goes out and holds somebody to two points. It's just the nature of the game. It doesn't bother me.
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I refuse to be outworked, and I consider myself to have the heart of a lion.
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You couldn't play if you weren't tough. You'd get bullied. Everybody who comes through the Civitan Recreation Center has to be tough. It's what we breed.
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Just because it's a break doesn't mean it has to be fast all the time. It can be a secondary break, but you've got to allow the defense to break down.
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I'm a huge fan of basketball. Any time you get a chance to watch basketball, I do it.
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You don't contest shots without expending energy. You don't get deflections - unless you walk into one every now and then - without expending energy. These are the things in basketball you have to really want to do.
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I have a great smile. A lot of people don't know that.
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When you play against people that's better than you, you get better.
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I think when you look around this league, so much is scripted. And not scripted in a sense that the league is scripted, but when guys talk, it's like, 'Say this. Yeah, come out and say that.' Like, nah, I'm not doing that. I'm going to say what's on my mind. I'm going to say what's on my heart. It's just genuine speaking.
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I will not feel like I've made it until the day I retire from basketball because there's something that I can always get better at, and there's always somebody better, and that's what drives me.
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I watch basketball all day every day. So when I'm watching the games, I watch it - I just enjoy watching basketball - but when I'm watching other people play, I'm really just watching as a student trying to figure different things out.
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Every year, I strive to be the best defensive player in the league.
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No one is going to tell me I'm too small to do whatever, to do anything. That's not up to them, and I'll never give anyone that power to say that.
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I'm trying to make the Hall of Fame.
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Are you going to back down to somebody? If not, you're giving yourself a chance.
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It just doesn't go with my story to be a first round pick, because I had to grind my whole life.
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If you put junk into your body, your body is going to give you junk results.
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When I came out in the draft, people kept asking me, 'So are you a small forward or a power forward?' and I was like, 'I'm a basketball player.' Period.
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I see the game differently than some guys. I'm always reading the next move.
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There is no chip coming off of my shoulder because, at the end of the day, you're still going to continue to be doubted.