Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Andre Drummond

LeBron - he's LeBron. He just won't be denied, he's the best player in the league and also a great person.

I am one of the last true centers in the NBA, and it's a title that I enjoy to hold.

I feel like I can run the floor well, rebound and block shots and let the offense come.

Obviously, with me being a DJ, I have a love for music. One day I was like, 'OK. I'm tired of playing everybody else's music. I rather play my music.' So, that's kind of how the whole me doing music thing started.

When I'm out there flying around, blocking shots, dunking the ball, grabbing rebounds it brings everybody's spirits up and gets them going.

I love giving back to the community.

Anything is possible in this league.

Stan Van Gundy is something else. He's the guy that you come to love. You get around him and he's a very personable guy, but when it's time to work, you don't want to mess with him.

I want it more. That's all it really is. Nobody wants to get hit every possession to get a rebound, and I want to.

Obviously I'm not the greatest scorer in the world or the greatest shooter in the world, but I'm tough and rebounding is something that not too many people want to put the effort into doing.

Even if I do miss a shot, I found something to keep me calm and not get myself rattled. Once I missed one, I'd tense up and I'd miss the next one, too. So I found a peace within myself.

I spend countless hours each and every day after practice doing form shooting. You know, coming in on off days to shoot.

The more times you go after it the more times you'll get the ball. So every chance I get I try to chase down the rebound.

As a younger guy, no one wants to be on a highlight or somebody's mix tape for their best plays of the year. For me, earlier in my career, that was something where 'I'm not sure if I should go for this,' not trying to get dunked on.

Every season, I've adjusted. My first couple of years it was still banging in the post and doing all the nitty gritty stuff. Over the years, it's changed to bigs being able to shoot and run the floor and be more agile, which is good for me because I'm a very agile guy.

It's a crazy feeling you know, being a young kid from New York, seeing everybody talk about Jordan, everybody wearing Jordan. Then to being up close and personal with him, eating dinner with him, and to be a part of his family.

People are going to talk bad about you no matter who you are.

I don't consider myself a celebrity. I don't think I'm better than somebody else. I'm just a human being like anyone else.

Just hearing somebody's voice in center field, it helps our guards out to know where they need to go, when the screen is coming, when the back door is coming, when the flare is coming. When different things like that happen and we're talking, it helps us all out in the long run.

No one knows what I'm capable of doing.

The way I play is not to prove anybody wrong. It's to help my teammates win games.

I was a very large baby. A big Oompa-Loompa.

I love 'The Walking Dead.' Steven Yeun who plays Glenn, is from Michigan and is a really close friend of mine as well.

I started a YouTube channel called Days of Dre. There's a lot of content on there.

I'm not seven foot, I'm about 6'9', 6'10', around that area. It's fine, I really don't care if I'm not as tall as everyone says I am. I'm doing fine.

Guys like LeBron, Chris Paul, Kobe... They all speak to me. It's just insane that all these top tier guys who have been in the All-Star game for so many years actually know who I am. I mean not in a million years did I think that Kobe would speak to me.

Teams passed on me, that happens.

I have a really good relationship with a lot of people in the music industry from Detroit. They're very kind when it comes to us stepping into their field or what they do and they're really willing to help out and help you get better at what you're trying to do.

Detroit, it's just an incredible city overall. The people here are so friendly and very outgoing.

I want to get to know my fans and let them get to know me. Give them an inside look at my life outside of basketball.

You know, I'm really known for being an energy guy and working hard on the floor, grabbing a lot of rebounds.

Detroit has a history of a lot of great rebounders and big guys that have been great defenders. So for me to pick up where they left off and continue that trend, of being a gritty, tough big man is pretty cool.

Community involvement is second nature to me. I've been doing it since high school.

My job is to just focus on basketball and you know, I don't really get a chance to really pick and choose who I play with.

I think, for me, I'm making the right plays and finding my teammates if I'm not open and finishing strong around the rim.

In high school, I didn't have to talk. All I had to say is 'left' or 'right' when a screen was coming.

I'm just really just continuing to work on back-to-the-basket stuff and working on getting better from the foul line.

Even if I do miss a shot, I'm going to be comfortable to get back up there and shoot the same shot again. Make or miss, I'm not going to be frustrated but move on to the next play.

I like to eat a lot of fruit and starchy things to give myself more energy before games.

My sister's a bully.

I'm a shotblocker and I want to get everything.

Instagram and Twitter are the best ways to let people in on what I do - not only basketball, but having fun with my friends too.

Those plays are winning plays, getting those blocks. Somebody's trying to dunk the ball and you get a block and that's demoralizing for the guy that tried to dunk the basketball.

You know I've watched the All-Star game as a little boy... and to have the opportunity now to play in it is so overwhelming.

Being a Jordan athlete has been outstanding for me.

As a kid and even to this day, I want to be an actor when I'm done playing. I work on music, too.

There's a lot of guys in the league that make music and it's hardcore gangsta rap. None of us really live that life and you can't talk about being a thug.

I always tell the kids, basketball is not going to be there forever, get a good education and make good choices.

I try to get eight or nine hours of sleep a night, and if I don't, I'll make sure to take a nap.

Everyone changes throughout the years.

I drink coffee a lot before my games. I take it with cream and sugar.

My mom and sister both make fun of me now. Well, it looks like you're on trade block again. Where we going this year?

Basketball will always be my first love.

Spending my 20s in Detroit has been incredible for me.

You see, some kids, the college coaches are calling them at all hours of the night, saying the same thing over and over again.

I'm all about saving money.

I am a hard worker, and there's nothing wrong with my motor.

Everybody knows the struggles I went through coming into my career with the free throws and how much work I put into it, how many people made fun of me for not being able to stay in games, this and that.

My athleticism will go away some day. I'm gonna be old one of these days, so I'm going to be able to use those post moves.

My music is a little bit of everything - R&B, hip-hop, EDM.