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" I want people to say that I'm something new, something different. Something they've never seen before. "
Trae Young
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" That's the nature of basketball. You gotta go out there and compete. "
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" Who wouldn't want to be compared to a guy like Steph Curry? "
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" A lot of my family is from Texas, stuff like that, so I was always in Texas, and when you grow up in Texas, around Texas, you want to go to the biggest Texas school, and UT was that. "
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" I think I can pretty much do it all for a team. And I'm looking forward to whatever team I go to, making a huge impact. "
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" People keep asking me if I feel pressure. But I don't feel pressure. I realize there's a lot on my plate, a lot of expectations for me to come in and win and do certain things. But I'm just playing the way I always have. "
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" Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would become a constant topic for national television and radio shows - never mind mentioned by some of the country's most respected journalists. "
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Think
Television
" I think my ability coming into the NBA is going to make it that much easier for me with the space and the different type of players here. I think just by the spacing alone is going to make my game that much easier and that much better for my teammates. "
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" I just hope I get picked by the right team and the team that really wants me and a team where I can help and take it to the next level. "
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Team
Right
" I feel my overall skill set, my ability to make players around me better, and my ability to help my team win is unique. "
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Unique
Team
" My goal is to the best player in the NBA. That's what I'm focusing on each and every day. "
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NBA
Best
" If you ask the guys I played with when I was little, they'll all tell you the same thing. All I did was catch and shoot. I didn't do anything else. "
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Tell
You
Ask
" My hair is different than a lot of people's. I like my hair. I like the fade. I like the little design I have. I'm cool with it. Obviously my hair is thin on top, so it looks like a bald spot, but I really could care less. "
Trae Young
Hair
People
Cool
" Not a lot of people take advantage of that opportunity of being different. A lot of kids that are highly touted coming out of high school, like, doing the traditional thing and going to the blue bloods and all that, but I was always different growing up. "
Trae Young
Doing
Opportunity
School
" I bring a lot to a team. I bring immediate impact. As far as my skillset, I can attack defenders in multiple ways and get my teammates involved. "
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Impact
Teammates
Team
" To me, I'll always be the skinny, 5-foot-6 eighth-grader on the YMCA court, trying to get grown men to choose me for pickup games. It wasn't always easy. And that's what drives me. "
Trae Young
Me
Always
Trying
" I was never the big leaper, the dunker, the long and athletic kid who looked the part of a traditional basketball star. Truth be told, I wasn't even considered a top guard coming out of my recruiting class. "
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Long
Top
Truth
" It's a mystery coming out each and every game to try and figure out how a team is going to guard me and how I'm going to dictate how my team wins. "
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Me
Mystery
Try
" I love when people try to be physical with me. They think that's the way to try to guard me and to get physical with me. I use that to my advantage. "
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People
Me
Way
" If I'm able to get drafted by the New York Knicks, it would be a blessing. "
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Get
New York
New
" I'm light-skinned. I'm mixed with black and white. "
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Black And White
Mixed
White
" I'm just trying to get better each and every game. "
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Every
Get
Better
" One of my dreams was being called a 'Diaper Dandy' by Dick Vitale. He calls me that all the time now. It's surreal. "
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He
Dreams
Time
" I'll always have a chip on my shoulder until I hang my shoes up. No matter how long I play this game, the chip on my shoulder will always be there. That won't change. "
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Shoes
Play
Long
" I'm getting guarded like nobody else in the country is being guarded, scouted on like no one else in the country is. "
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Getting
Nobody
Being
" Rod Strickland has been influential. He gives me a lot of advice, good and bad games; he is someone I really look up to a lot. "
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Someone
Advice
Bad
" I'm actually enjoying attention. Who wouldn't? "
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Who
Attention
Actually
" When you're around somebody all the time, you butt heads every now and then. That's what happens in every family. "
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You
Time
Now And Then
" I think people get caught up a little bit in the fact of finding things that people can't do instead of looking at the things that the player can do. "
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Think
People
Looking
" My favorite player growing up was Steve Nash, so that's been a guy I look up to and a guy I've gotten to talk to a few times, too. "
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Growing Up
Guy
Look