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" My goal is to the best player in the NBA. That's what I'm focusing on each and every day. "
Trae Young
Every Day
NBA
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" Who wouldn't want to be compared to a guy like Steph Curry? "
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" I'm glad people get excited watching me play. Hopefully I show them something new each time I step on the court. "
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" 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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" I'm just trying to get better each and every game. "
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" I want people to say that I'm something new, something different. Something they've never seen before. "
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" If I'm able to get drafted by the New York Knicks, it would be a blessing. "
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" That's the nature of basketball. You gotta go out there and compete. "
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" I'm excited about getting the opportunity to show people that I can play defense. "
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" 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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" 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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" 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. "
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" I bring immediate impact off the court as much as I do on the court. "
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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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" 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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" 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. "
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" 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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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" That's what my mindset is, making the right play and doing the right thing each and every possession. "
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" 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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" 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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" 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. "
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" 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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" The history behind the Garden and all the players that have come through and played on that court in the Garden, I think that the history is the reason why it still is, in my mind, the mecca of basketball. It definitely draws me in. That's the thing about New York; that's a big thing about the history, and the Garden is a big part of that. "
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" I'm actually enjoying attention. Who wouldn't? "
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