Top 96 Quotes & Sayings by Gerald Green
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American athlete Gerald Green.
Last updated on December 3, 2024.
I want to retire here, man. The Suns gave me an opportunity to revive myself and why would I want to go anywhere?
I get judged a lot. Maybe because of the way I talk, the way I look, I'm real quick to say a lot of stuff that maybe people don't understand because that's just me.
For a long time, I played for me, for my career.
Not a day goes by that I don't think about my finger, but I don't really miss it.
I've always been a fighter in my life.
I'm just getting a lot more opportunity than I got my second year in Phoenix. Here defensively with the Heat, I'm on a lot more tough defensive assignments. They trust me.
I don't want to be remembered for dunks, even though that will probably happen.
When things just get bad you can't quit, you just have to keep fighting.
I'm just so happy to be able to wear Celtics green again.
Obviously, I don't want to be too emotional. I just kind of want to use my energy on the court so I can just be able to be effective on both ends of the floor.
No team wanted me. No overseas team. Not even a D-League team.
If I could palm a ball I probably could have more dunks than I have in my career, but I still can get the job done.
I've seen young guys break down in those situations. They're cruising along, playing great, then their minutes get funky and they fall apart. Some of them never recover.
I feel like everybody makes mistakes defensively.
I try to tell young guys - like, if I see a young guy pressing, I try to tell him to relax and play your game.
I have vets like Antoine Walker, Greg Buckner, Mark Madsen, and Michael Doleac who keep me motivated to want to get better.
I just got to try to go out there and let my game speak for itself.
I'm always animated; I'm always kind of crunk.
I need to be more of a take-what-the-defense-gives-me player and not force the issue.
I'm not an interior decorator. I just shoot 3s.
Hopefully I can win a ring before it's all said and done. Hopefully they'll remember me as being a champion.
Some days, I'm going to miss shots; some days, I'm not.
I used to always hide my hand, I still do. I don't really like talking about it. Sometimes I still hide it and not even realize that I'm doing it.
I never failed a class. Never.
They'll touch you and look at your skin to see if it's paint. I'm not playing. All Russia is not like that. You've got your big cities like Moscow, St. Petersburg. Some cities understand that there are black people. They do exist. But the smaller cities, the little villages, they've never seen it.
I'm me. I'm not into to all that GQ fashion.
That's a great trade. I'd trade myself for Kevin Garnett.
I go to Milwaukee, I get cut, that really put a funk in me. I'm like, 'Man, it's over for me. I can't even make it in training camp now?'
Anybody tells me I get a chance to rep Houston, I'm gonna rep it proud. It's all I've been wanting to do forever.
Instead of me going out and having eight shot attempts with six 3s, let me see if I can have just four 3s and attack the basket and try to get fouls and rebound better.
I'm just trying to look at everything as positive as I can to keep me motivated.
This is what I've dreamed about man. Putting this jersey on is a straight honor. Me being from Houston I'm giving it my heart and my everything because this is what I grew up watching and grew up wanting to be a part of. It's just an honor to play for this team.
I don't really get excited about games any more because I don't know if I'm going to play.
The teachers told me I wouldn't amount to anything because I was a bad kid. But I knew I could still hoop.
I'll never be in a dunk contest again. I don't ever want to be a part of it.
I don't want to just shoot 3s. I'm not that type of player.
I do intend to achieve my education goals and obtain my college degree through distance programs.
Don't get me wrong - any team in the league, I'm blessed to be on. But to be the team that you dreamed about as a little kid, it's just that much more special.
Even before I made my high school team, I'd say I want to be a NBA player, and people laughed at me with, 'Get out of here, you ain't going to be a NBA player. You don't even play basketball.'
I've been kind of thrown under the bus a few times in my career.
My son goes around shooting the basketball saying, 'Isaiah Thomas!'
As a player you do kind of see you might need to get something going. Maybe it's diving on the ball, diving on the floor for a loose ball. Or maybe it's something that'll just energize the team, a lob dunk or a great pass or a great defensive play or an open shot, anything.
Certain games aren't going to be my game. Certain games aren't going to be other people's games. As long as we win with the main goal to make the playoffs, that's all that matters.
It's been kind of tough, but tough people last.
A lot of times you get a good opportunity and it never comes again.
I didn't understand a winning atmosphere until I got to Dallas.
I didn't think I was going to school to be a doctor - no offense, but that wasn't me.
I kind of like being geeked up. I think that's the type of personality I have anyway.
I know this sounds arrogant or cocky or like I'm selling myself, but even on the court now, I don't think anybody can stop me. I just have that much confidence.
When I signed with the Rockets, I just kind of felt like that was my calling card.
I cried after I woke up from surgery and saw that my finger was gone. I was looking at my hand, going, 'Where the hell is my finger at?'
My Rottweiler really don't talk much. He just bites.
Scoring is easy for me.
I hate talking about the dunk contest. I'm just so sick of the dunk contest. I'm done with that. That point of my life I'm over with.
People could tell me I was not good at something and, even if I wasn't, I told myself I was.
All I've been doing is shooting in my driveway and playing one-on-one with my Rottweiler.
I just tried not to just quit. Because sometimes I did have a tendency to think that I would never be back I would never be wearing an NBA logo.
At the end of the day, I'm a professional. I've got to continue to work hard.
I was honestly contemplating retirement. A lot of people don't know that, but I was done.
If I see somebody that's doing something good, I tell him, Hey, man, keep doing those things. Those things can make you be a great pro.'
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