Draymond Green Quotes

I try to be two or three steps ahead of my guy, my opponent.

We can't cross that bridge until we come to it, but I always like to lay down a pontoon ahead of time.

Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make.

Meticulous planning will enable everything a man does to appear spontaneous.

Planning means looking ahead.

With my position, you have to kind of be three steps ahead of your opponent.

I love keeping. I'm in the game all the time. I see angles that I wouldn't normally see, and I feel part of what the captain does.

I always wanted to just stay 10 steps ahead of everybody. It's just been like that my whole life.

When I'm training, I cater a little bit to my opponents.

If I always appear prepared, it is because before entering an undertaking, I have meditated long and have foreseen what might occur. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly and secretly what I should do in circumstances unexpected by others; it is thought and preparation

Fortune favors the prepared mind.

I think one of the reasons I've been successful is that I can see things before other people do. I've always been able to do it.

It doesn't always happen according to the way you have planned things out but I feel if you have covered most of the aspects, it does help out there in the middle.

You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it's really a good idea and whether there are other, better ideas.

A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.

Keep your head on the ball. You've got to hit it first, then look where it goes. People get in trouble when they look for where the ball's going, and they haven't even hit it yet.

You can't rely on luck. I've had some stages in my career where I've said we're going to wing it, and we've always ended up in trouble.

At least with me, the match starts much, much earlier than the actual match.

In life, as in chess, forethought wins.

I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.

The long view counts.

Foreknowledge is power.

Any plan is better than no plan.

I think you have to see two steps ahead of things. That's just the way I roll.

Your mind is just constantly moving, thinking of different scenarios, not only on your team but their team too, trying to figure out things they are doing.