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" At the end of the day, before basketball, before anything, I'm a man. "

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" My fire is my gift and my curse. I harness it 95% of the time, but the 5% I don't, it works against me. "

" So many times, I watch games and think, 'Man, why is that guy trying to score like that? He can't do it.' But he's been told his whole life, 'You have to go get 40 if you want to be one of the top dogs.' It's my goal to build a lane where you can be a top dog, and you don't gotta go get that 40. You can go get four and still be a top dog. "

" Wherever you go in Michigan, you find that toughness. I don't know if it's the weather or the hard times. It's like, if I can make it out of here, I had to be super tough. "

" There's the Draymond Green you see out on the floor. But that's not me. I mean, it is, but there's more. People see the fiery guy, the competitive guy, the trash talk and everything. But they don't see the love and compassion. They don't see the person. They don't see the real me, who values his friends and puts people first. "

" I know what I'm capable of, and I try to go out and prove that. "

" I've gotten to the point where I'm comfortable guarding any position on the floor. It just didn't happen overnight. It came with a lot of work, a lot of film study and everything. "

" Are you going to back down to somebody? If not, you're giving yourself a chance. "

" 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. "

" I grew up in a household where my mom made $16,000 a year. I know the struggle. I know how to keep those things in perspective, and I do keep it into perspective. "

" Four-men aren't used to picking up guys pushing the ball in transition. Let alone, somebody getting the rebound and just busting. "

" Sometimes it's tougher against bad teams because you can't really get a read on them. "

" When you play against people that's better than you, you get better. "

" People will always try to change you. They will always want you to be who they want you to be. That's fine because I'll always be exactly who I want to be. "

" I'm not as athletic as some guys, so I have to counter that with a tremendous brain that thinks the game. "

" After a game, I really just relax with the family. "

" Be remembered for the right things. "

" I'm a huge fan of basketball. Any time you get a chance to watch basketball, I do it. "

" I know things that I need to work on in my life, things that I can be better at. "

" I refuse to be outworked, and I consider myself to have the heart of a lion. "

" 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. "

" Let me get my money's worth if I'm going to get some techs. "

" I'm human, and I make mistakes. "

" When you're 250 pounds, you can push more people around, but you can't move as fast or jump as high. "

" I'm not going to worry about proving people wrong. My goal isn't to prove people wrong. You can't worry about what other people say. "

" The goal is to win a championship. Every team enters the season with the goal to win the championship, but realistically, there are five or six teams with a realistic shot at winning a championship. "

" I tell guys all the time, you see me messing up, get at me. I want you to get at me. "

" I can throw all the good passes I want, but if they don't make shots, it's not an assist. "

" You see the guys sign the big contract, you see everybody on TV, but you don't see all the work that goes into that. It's a grind. And a lot of people don't see that grind. "