Draymond Green Quotes

For me football is more about making the right pass at the right time.

In training when I'm receiving the ball I always know where I want to go. At the end of the day it's just soccer.

I like to play with my back to the goal, but my colleagues have to tell me when I'm alone or how much room I have so I can choose to pass or to go straight for the goal.

The most difficult thing is football is to give the ball to a player that has the same colour shirt.

I like to control the ball and analyse the game.

In soccer, you have to be sly.

For me, good football is not about how many skills you show or how many players you beat. It's about making the right decision every time you have the ball.

This is football, so you need to be clever to understand the moment and win games.

I try to have a picture when I receive the ball and know where everyone is. That's one of the most important things for a midfielder.

The biggest thing I've been working on his just finding the open man.

You can play fast but not in a hurry. As a point guard, I can dictate that.

Once I feel like I know my teammates, know where everybody is going to be, being a basketball player will allow me to attack from anywhere on the court, get better shots and facilitate.

You can't say, 'You're a scorer, you score. You rebound, you rebound.' Basketball is more than that. Basketball is knowing the next step, knowing the next play, knowing how to make things happen.

I think it's important to know what you're going to do with the ball before it comes to you. So you're always thinking before hand and when the ball comes to you to can make the pass straight away.

When you get to that level, it's not a matter of talent anymore - because all the players are so talented - it's about preparation, about playing smart and making good decisions.

I learned how to pass when I was real young. That's one thing I always knew how to do was find the open man.

Soccer is simple, but it is difficult to play simple.

I spend the entire 90 minutes looking for space on the pitch. I'm always between the opposition's two holding midfielders and thinking, 'The defence is here, so I get the ball and I go there to where the space is.'

Game management, game decisions, adjustments, seeing things during games - it's all important.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

You play it the way you always play it. You look for matchups, and you go through your progression, and you throw it to the guy who's most open.

There are some people who might have better technique than me, and some may be fitter than me, but the main thing is tactics. With most players, tactics are missing. You can divide tactics into insight, trust, and daring. In the tactical area, I think I just have more than most other players.

In football, the only game I know is the 90-minutes game. It's not mind games; I don't try to do that.

Football is a game you play with your mind.

Football is not about suffering. It's about enjoyment. Control the ball, be friendly with it, try to attack, try to score goals. Of course defending is part of it, but you can defend in a lot of ways.