Top 99 Quotes & Sayings by Goran Dragic - Page 2

I'm a basketball player. I can play the whole game. Of course, when you get older, it's a little bit tougher, but whatever.

My grandma died by cancer.

Every opponent is different. Some guys are going to be in pick-and-roll a little bit higher, and then you have opportunities to drive for layups. Some guys are going to zone deeper and then the mid-range shot is open.

You need to be in shape every year. I am.

I'm a partner with City of Hope for many, many years.

I mean everybody's tired at the end of the season. But I've never hit the point that I was so tired that I couldn't have kept going.

I feel like I'm evolving with my age.

The only thing I can control is my preparation and how I play games and how I practice.

The most important thing is that my family and I are happy.

Not everyone in this world has the same start in life. From that standpoint, we are trying to give as many kids as we can equal opportunities to succeed.

When you get older, you cannot play the same.

The older you get, the more you need to work on your game and try to survive with those young fellas out here.

You never know before the season, when you get new players, how the chemistry is going to develop and how the season is going to go.

You need to believe you can do something big.

It's not my goal to be the main scorer. It's whatever the opponent gives.

I gave to my country everything I had.

Like a lot of fans know, I like to play fast basketball.

I mean, I was always hoping to play in the NBA. Of course, when that thing happened, you're like, 'Finally, I did it, but the work starts now.' I didn't want to just be known as OK, I came to the NBA, and then in a few years, you're gone. First my goal was to be the best Slovenian player in the league. Of course, after that, your appetite goes up.

I feel comfortable in Miami.

You can see a lot of technical fouls, ejections but at the same time, it's a man's sport.

We've got a ping-pong table back home back in Slovenia. I always smash the ball.

It's a much easier job when you know what to expect on offense.

A lot of people don't recognize me. I like that. Perfect.

Every time I went to play for my national team, we spent together two months away from our families, as a team.

Brook Lopez is huge!

I'm not a guy who is going back in the past.

Of course, I want to win the championship.

I always try to play hard as possible to help my team - it doesn't matter if it's on defense or offense. I would say when I was young I was playing like that, too.

To hear people mentioning me for All-Star is an unbelievable feeling.

When I came to the league, a lot of people were saying Dragic's name was 'Tragic.' That hurts a little bit. I always have those comments in the back of my head and try to prove to all those people that they were mistaken.

I feel like some things, you can't just force it.

I didn't play a lot in the first season, so I had to spend a lot of time developing my game.

When you come out of pick-and-roll, it's really tough to step back and shoot because the defender is coming.

I always say that it's tough to judge a player when you're just hearing rumors. It's never accurate.

I was never a strategic guy. If I can play, I just want to play.

Sometimes on the outside courts we'd play and guys would get into fights. I never backed down, even if the guy was stronger and I'd get punished.

When I came to the league, back in Europe I was so much faster than the other guys, I was always penetrating. I didn't use my jump shot. When I came to the league it was tough to get to the basket. All those guys, they went under the pick-and-roll. It was long threes, especially for me coming from Europe.

I always had this in my head that I could play in this league, that I'm good enough... but of course you have to prove that on the floor.

Soccer helped especially with my footwork. When I played soccer, I was on offense scoring goals - I didn't pass the ball so much so it probably didn't help much with being a point guard.