Gerald Green Quotes

I was told millions of times that I was never going to achieve what I set out to, but I decided to do it, and I did it.

People said I wouldn't be in the NBA. People said I wouldn't be a starting center, this, that and the other. I just prove people wrong.

When people keep telling you that you can't do a thing, you kind of like to try it.

I remember when I was in college, people told me I couldn't play in the NBA. There's always somebody saying you can't do it, and those people have to be ignored.

No matter how many people say you can't do something, use that as inspiration to prove them wrong.

I was an underdog my whole career, but I knew I had the ability to compete with those guys.

Every year it's been people saying I can't do this or I can't do that. Y'all will see something different, I can tell you that.

I've had a very unusual background in science - not the usual route of planning on being a scientist from age 3. I think my story shows that success is more about personal motivation and determination than it is about where you were born or what your economic status was.

I had that laser focus, identified what I wanted when I was a kid, and never let anything get in my way. If you look on paper at who I am and what I sound like, and what I look like, you wouldn't say, 'Go into broadcasting.' It's just what I wanted to do - I knew that I could do it, and I never let anyone tell me that I couldn't.

I have this drive to prove people wrong - people who thought I should give up or assumed I'd never get anywhere.

If I would have listened to other people back in 2000 telling me I should have stopped playing basketball because of a kidney disease, I wouldn't have won a world championship.

People said I couldn't gig, and I proved them wrong.

I was able to overcome my failures because I was always confident of my abilities and was sure I could achieve what I had set out for.

I know, if I am playing well, I can be as good as anyone, and I want to show people who write you off and forget about you.

I've been through my fair share of highs and lows. Yes, I've been written off, and it amazes me, and it amuses me, also, when I'm written off by the press cause then I tell them that's just the lull before the storm. And every time I've been down, I've been down, never out. So it just makes me work a lot harder.

There's always going to be someone out there who doesn't like what you do, doesn't like your style, your face. That's part of life. But I feed off that. I don't think I'd be where I am today if it wasn't for that. It puts a little fire in the belly, keeps me going so I can prove so many people wrong.

Even my closest friend said I was finished, but I think I may be a little different from the others.

I've always had to prove myself to people growing up. I had to show them that I could do this and I could do that and paying no mind to what the critics said.

Whatever be the challenges, whatever be the obstacles before us, I say to you as I say to everybody else that we will overcome.

When I graduated from Parsons School of Design, the dean at that time said I would never be a designer. Obviously I didn't listen.

When people push back on you and don't think you can do it, and you struggle a little bit and wonder if they're right, it drives you to be successful and to be a great player.

My entire life, people have told me that I couldn't do certain things. They told me I couldn't go to college. They told me I couldn't go to Yale, Georgetown, couldn't end up doing much on Capitol Hill. Couldn't be party chair. And my response has always been, 'Watch me.'

I like being the underdog. I like turning around and shutting people up when they tell me I can't.

My whole life, people have doubted me. My mom did. People told me in high school I'm too short and not fast enough to play basketball. They didn't know my story. Because if they did, they'd know that anything is possible.

I feel like I've been proving people wrong all my life.