Draymond Green Quotes

Who can't relate to a story of a dreamer who, against all odds, is going to make something of himself that is completely unexpected?

I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.

I like to think I defied the odds my entire life, definitely my entire athletic career.

I was the kind nobody thought could make it. I had a funny Boston accent. I couldn't pronounce my R's. I wasn't a beauty.

Nothing really comes easy to you when you're under-recruited, you're undersized, you're undervalued. It's a situation where you have to be better than the bigger guys.

I don't really care anymore: I'm fiercely proud of the fact I've been able to make a career despite the fact I wasn't born into privately educated schools.

Like Nemanja Vidic, I came from a small town in a small country in Eastern Europe, but we had reached the top.

I am a five-foot six-inch, dark, ordinary-looking man. People didn't imagine that I would make it.

I was very skinny, braces; so I never thought I would be a model.

I worked really hard, and I surpassed myself... I didn't have, visually, what it took. I was not pretty, I had teeth problems, and I was very skinny. I didn't fit the mold.

I was a freshman and auditioned for the school play. Freshmen usually never got cast. I was the first freshman to be actually given a legitimate part and it was that feeling of 'Wow! I broke the system!'

In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you.

I've had to work very hard, and I don't really have a category or fit into any niche, so each time I come out with a new record, it's like, I'm a new guy.

I think it's your duty to overcome what you inherit in life.

My dad had to work for everything in his life; so did my mum: she cleaned people's houses and looked after old people. You can be complacent and sit on the couch and complain about the dreams that you missed. Get off the couch!

I was told I would become nothing. Now I am showing people how big nothing is.

If I didn't mould my reality then I'd still be in the ghetto where people like me are supposed to stay. You have to dream your way out of the nightmare.

There's hardly any precedent for a guy like me to have the career that I've had. Because I grew up the way I grew up, I'm an in-your-face kind of guy. I developed that as a defense mechanism to survive in the streets. I do that in Hollywood in the service of my passion.

I've been an underdog all my life.

I wanted to prove to people it doesn't matter if you come from a small little island: that you can make it in this industry.

I was the kid that was the 199th pick that never had the body for it. People didn't think I'd play one year in the NFL, and now I'm going on my 17th year.

I am used to people underestimating me.

Embrace the grind because it was once taken from me.

Proving to my friends, family, and the people that I love that they were wrong - that in spite of my age and my lack of experience, I could change sport and achieve something really special - gives me a lot of satisfaction.

Viola Davis is a perfect example of somebody who's so much better than the parts she has the opportunity to play.