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" 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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" There's gonna be stretches where I don't play as well. People are gonna be talking bad about me and not always on my side and cheering me on. "

Trae Young

Talking

Always

Bad

" I'm just trying to get better each and every game. "

" I remember me being that kid growing up. Me being the kid that grew up going to games and being a ball boy and wanting a high five from Blake Griffin or the other players. "

Trae Young

Boy

Growing Up

" I'm excited about getting the opportunity to show people that I can play defense. "

" I'm light-skinned. I'm mixed with black and white. "

" 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. "

" One of my dreams was being called a 'Diaper Dandy' by Dick Vitale. He calls me that all the time now. It's surreal. "

Trae Young

Dreams

Time

" I'm glad people get excited watching me play. Hopefully I show them something new each time I step on the court. "

Trae Young

Time

Step

" I want people to say that I'm something new, something different. Something they've never seen before. "

" If I'm able to get drafted by the New York Knicks, it would be a blessing. "

" 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. "

Trae Young

People

Way

" I bring immediate impact off the court as much as I do on the court. "

" 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. "

" I'm actually enjoying attention. Who wouldn't? "

" 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. "

Trae Young

Mystery

Try

" I'll never regret a moment I spent at the University of Oklahoma or my decision to stay home and become a Sooner for life. "

" 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. "

" 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

Always

Trying

" I know what I need to work on, and I know what I need to prove and to show, and that's all that matters. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm just trying to be the best version of Trey Young. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" That's what my mindset is, making the right play and doing the right thing each and every possession. "

Trae Young

Mindset

Doing The Right Thing

Doing

" 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. "

" My confidence level never varies. "

" 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. "

" 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. "