Draymond Green

Every time you make a jump, whether it's from high school to college or college to the NBA, you're going to hear questions about your athletic ability.

My fire is my gift and my curse. I harness it 95% of the time, but the 5% I don't, it works against me.

I had a great time at Michigan State, but no four years will compare to Saginaw High.

I'm a huge fan of basketball. Any time you get a chance to watch basketball, I do it.

When I came out in the draft, people kept asking me, 'So are you a small forward or a power forward?' and I was like, 'I'm a basketball player.' Period.

I tell guys all the time, you see me messing up, get at me. I want you to get at me.

I'm blessed, and... all the time, I sit and think, 'Wow.'

Just because it's a break doesn't mean it has to be fast all the time. It can be a secondary break, but you've got to allow the defense to break down.

If you've got to second-guess talking to a teammate, what you have will never work.

You see the guys sign the big contract, you see everybody on TV, but you don't see all the work that goes into that. It's a grind. And a lot of people don't see that grind.

A guy that's going to do all of the dirty work, that guy that is willing to defend anyone and do the little things and not really care about all of that other stuff. I think every championship team needs that.

I've gotten to the point where I'm comfortable guarding any position on the floor. It just didn't happen overnight. It came with a lot of work, a lot of film study and everything.