Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Danny Green

If you don't believe in yourself, why should anybody else?

I have three younger brothers.

You're going to have doubts when you get cut. But you can use those moment to light a fire under yourself.

I have a red-tail Columbian boa constrictor named 'Jade.'

If a kid's trying to be the next Danny Green, that's weird for me. That's surreal, humbling and hard to put in a thought process.

You just never know who is watching you - it is important to put your best foot forward.

It's important to carry yourself as a professional at all times.

San Antonio itself does feel like home.

Especially after going through an 82-game season, the team that's more mentally locked in and focused is usually the team that makes it to the Finals and wins the NBA championship.

That's probably the biggest thing for any team in the playoffs, for every team - if you want to win. It's not about your numbers. It's not about scoring. It's about the team and whatever it is you need to do to help the team win. Whether it's rebounding, taking charges, getting steals, blocking shots or guarding somebody.

I'm not one of the guys that didn't know how to manage my money.

You know, I came in as a rookie and didn't get to play much at all, really. Became a sponge. I had to go through the rough, get cut a couple times, take the G-league route, which was the D-league back then.

I don't stay away from bread but I don't load up on bread either. I just eat it if it's around.

Since I was in Cleveland, I've gone through a lot of different things.

I listen to R&B. Hip-hop. Rap.

I do a lot of cleaning and organizing of the house, and I'm also a big TV and movie buff.

I wouldn't say I eat fruit all the time. If I'm in the mood for fruit, I'll eat it. I try to get some kind of fruit throughout the day or every couple of days. I usually go for bananas to keep the cramps away.

When you're a rookie, the game moves a 1000 miles per hour. But each year, you get more mature, the game slows down for you, and that's when you realize you're getting better at belonging. When you know where to go and where to be, that's when the game is coming a little easier to you.

I like Toronto, it's nice.

I've played for so many great coaches.

Anytime you get a chance to play in front of a big crowd is always good I feel like, for any basketball player.

Regardless where I am in life or how much money I got, I still enjoy it, but I grind it out. I continue wanting to do more, wanting to be better and achieve more.

I wasn't drafted high.

We need to get people out to vote.

When the team wins, everybody wins.

Reptiles are very low maintenance.

I'm not superstitious or anything, there's nothing I do over and over. I do pray before every game, but other than that there's nothing really that I do consistently every game that's a ritual.

There's no equal amount of training or conditioning individually you can do to simulate a 5-on-5 basketball game. It's such a different type of staying in shape.

You can't simulate playing basketball no matter how much working out you do.

I was never a one-dimensional guy; I was always able to block shots, play defense, get rebounds, or drive, or pass. My father made me grow up that way. He taught me to work on different things in my game and wanted me to be more than a one-dimensional player.

A lot of guys have made it from a lot of different places, and not necessarily because they had parents with great genes. They worked really hard, and they used the resources they had as well as they could.

I've had times where I didn't play or came off the bench.

Basketball is just a game, and it's great. We're lucky to play it for our jobs.

New York basketball's been pretty good over the years.

I like a lot of movies. I like all types of genres. I like the classics - comedy, action.

You don't want to seem like a whiner, complainer. You don't want to seem like you don't appreciate certain people, certain fans, certain coaches, criticisms. You want to be professional about it. But everybody's got their opinions, from the top to the bottom, and it's their opinion, you respect it. But nobody does our job better than we do.

Opportunities will come, you've just got to be ready to take advantage of it, be ready when the opportunity comes.

Some days you wake up and don't realize where you're at and you go, 'What the hell am I doing here?' That happened in a couple of cities, places. Reno, some places overseas.

I want to be in a situation where I can play, be effective and win.

I've learned a lot, been a sponge and just continued to take criticism in stride in good positive energy.

I've got to continue to work hard because every day somebody's coming for my job. I've got to continue to get better and better each day. I have to act like every day is my last.

I remember listening to 'Take Care' when I was overseas.

I always went school with a backup plan. Everything I did was a backup plan because I never was the most talented guy. I wasn't, you know, the superstar at all.

I am capable of dribbling the ball. I can dribble. And I can play a little defense!

I've done a lot of different things with community, going green, and not just making sure of improving the wellness of people and their bodies, but of the earth, too.

Shooting is definitely one of my strengths.

I used to watch guys like Andre Barrett, Omar Cook.

I think the biggest thing for everybody in this league is the respect of their peers. A lot of the things we do, the way we compete, is for everybody in this league to respect as good players. Whether GMs see it or not or people on the outside, we want the respect of players.

For me, my biggest thing, my biggest mantra, is winning.

I'm a prime example that you don't have to be the greatest, the most athletic or the tallest.

I know I'm not an All-Star or star player, but I want to be remembered as a great role player who won a lot of games and leave my mark in the league.

If I'm snacking, I'll go for peanut butter and jelly in between meals.

It's a great time of year for everybody. In March Madness, there are a lot of upsets, a lot of buzzer beaters, a lot of craziness going on.

I played for the Long Island Panthers growing up, and we played in all the boroughs.

In Cleveland, I was a young rookie. I was trying to be like the veterans when I wasn't a veteran. That was definitely the wrong way to go about things.

The relationship with a snake is not like what we have with dogs, like how we can sort of cuddle a dog.

I had to learn that I'm not that special. I may be talented, but I'm not the most talented in the world. And some of the most talented players don't even make it.

Everything happens for a reason. We always go through things that make us better people.

I don't have a 'favorite' movie.

I'm ambidextrous.