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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. "

Draymond Green

Want

Basketball

Now

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" Everything can't be sweet. Everything can't be peaches and cream. "

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

" 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. "

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

" If you're not getting better, you're getting worse. "

" What's my status? I'm just a guy from Saginaw, Michigan, trying to make it. But you know, pretty nice crib. "

" I see the game differently than some guys. I'm always reading the next move. "

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

" Everyone wonders why I talk junk, but I was doomed from the beginning. "

" You learn from adversity more than anything because it allows you to see so much. It really allows you to see things in a different way. "

Draymond Green

Learn

You

" Every decision I make is, 'How is this helping me become a billionaire?' "

Draymond Green

How

Make

" I know when I need to be pushing it full speed; I know when I got to probe and allow the flow to open up, because, at the end of the day, on the basketball court, something's going to open up. "

" Be remembered for the right things. "

" I think complacency is what you allow it to be. "

" My mom. Growing up with her, she always taught us to say whatever. Like, 'You think something, say it. Don't bite your tongue for people.' I think there's a fine line with that, but at the same time, I'm a firm believer in speaking your mind. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Draymond Green

Better

Day

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I put my heart into this. Like, winning to me is, I make it life or death. "

Draymond Green

Heart

Winning

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

" I know what hard times are like. I didn't grow up with a silver spoon in my mouth. I've had struggles. "

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

" My whole life, I've guarded guys bigger than me. "

Draymond Green

Guarded

Life

" I was always taught, even as a kid, playing against grown men, you get better. "

" I love playing basketball. And to be able to continue to play as a job, that's the best to me. "

" I'm trying to make the Hall of Fame. "

" I've been pretty broke my entire life. I'm not going to live that same life, but I'm going to keep those same principles. "