A Quote by Derrick Favors

When I set picks and rolled to the basket early in my career, either I'd dunk or it'd be an offensive foul where I run the guy over. — © Derrick Favors
When I set picks and rolled to the basket early in my career, either I'd dunk or it'd be an offensive foul where I run the guy over.
It's an offensive foul if you go into the defender's body, but if I fade and a guy runs into my leg, it's a foul.
You fouled a guy who needs to be fouled. If he's going to the basket, you don't give a knick-knack foul and then argue with the ref. You foul him so he knows, so the next guy coming behind him knows, so his team knows you can't go in the lane.
I'm not the most athletic guy who is able to make these crazy layups or dunk all over people. I'm more of a shooter, floater, lane guy - not too much flash. But it gets the job done.
Stevie Wonder used to come the ball games and they would have a guy sitting with him. And the guy would be holding on to his arm, telling him what's going on, and he would say, "Hey, the big chocolate guy just put down a thunder dunk. The chocolate guy with another monster dunk." And Stevie Wonder actually gave me the nickname Chocolate Thunder.
You gotta try something people ain't seen before, and you gotta go to the gym and work on your dunks. In a slam dunk competition, don't show up with three dunks. You got to have eight or nine dunks because if you get into the finals and two guys may do the same dunk or one guy does the dunk better than the other.
Guys like to dunk on me. It's always been that way. I'm 7-6, and guys want to dunk on the 7-6 guy.
When I was in the dunk contest, DeMar DeRozan actually did the dunk I was about to do before me. That was going to be my next dunk, so I was panicking when I went up for my turn.
Either you change with the times or you get rolled over.
When you're in the slam dunk contest, you try to do the things the average person would have trouble doing on a Nerf basket.
Against Bradley, every time I'm trying to dunk, dunk, dunk.
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.
I never plan to run at a certain pace. All my career my motto has been 'no limits.' I don't try to run with a set time in mind, sticking to set splits, because what happens if you're ahead of your splits - are you going to slow down?
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.
In the early days, I was living with Dee Dee for a little while, and he was never around then, either. He would always be out. He was kind of an energetic guy who was always on the run.
I talked to the ball a lot of times in my career. I yelled, "Go foul. Go foul."
You're put into a box where you're either an offensive, defensive coach or a player development guy. Fair or unfair. You have to be whatever your team needs you to be.
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