Draymond Green Quotes

My confidence level is, I think I can be a first-round pick; I think I can be a professional basketball player.

You know, I'm just 6'9" and 260. And just so happen to be very good at playing the game of basketball.

I think, growing up, I was seen as the perfect power forward. For a long time, I thought maybe I was supposed to be a basketball player.

I expected to get drafted. I knew that I wouldn't get drafted on that first day due to the fact that not a lot of people had the opportunity to see me play much.

You have to be wired a certain way to be a professional basketball player, and the way my body grew, something happened genetically that allowed me to become a lot more explosive.

I was an in-between size. I wasn't tall enough to be a real forward, and I probably didn't handle the ball well enough to be a point guard.

I was pretty realistic about my chances of being drafted.

That's a special time, to get drafted.

If you're out there, and you can't do it, that makes you a bust. Well, I was never really out there. I was never Greg Oden in the NBA.

Given a full summer to practice basketball, and especially my jump shot, I know that I could play in the NBA and do well.

There is no such thing as a perfect basketball player, and I don't believe there is only one greatest player either.

My childhood dream was to play basketball, actually.

If I weren't earning $3 million a year to dunk a basketball, most people on the street would run in the other direction if they saw me coming.

I was a baseball player at North Central High School in Spokane, Washington even though I was all-city in basketball, even when I signed a letter of intent to play quarterback at Washington State.

I am, first of all, a basketball player. I've done this for so very long... For me, it's been essential to be successful on the court.

I have no preferred team, but everyone wants to go No. 1 in the draft. Even the guy who gets picked last in the draft wants to go No. 1. But I just know that whoever picks me, I'm going to be excited to play for that team, and I can't wait to see myself in 'Madden' on that team.

First of all, I really never imagined myself being a professional athlete.

I was pretty much seen as a basketball player coming out of high school. Football was my second love, but luckily, I turned out to be pretty good. Something just drew me to football; besides, I ended up being too short for my position in basketball.

Prince never, ever mentioned it except to say he wished he was taller so he could play basketball. He was actually a really great basketball player.

I was fortunate enough to do a docu-series throughout the draft process, but I did that to show the behind-the-scenes stuff.

Eric Gordon is a great scorer.

You've got to be on all-league teams before you can say that you are going to be a great basketball player.

I have known Marbury since he was in seventh grade, and I have always felt he is a hell of an NBA player.

In Chicago, they wanted Michael to do his thing and me to be just rebound. I'm more than a rebounder.

I think the biggest thing in this league is how many positions can you guard and do you have a strength offensively that's applicable?