I'm just trying to look at everything as positive as I can to keep me motivated.
Gerald Green
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.
All I've been doing is shooting in my driveway and playing one-on-one with my Rottweiler.
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.
The teachers told me I wouldn't amount to anything because I was a bad kid. But I knew I could still hoop.
I'm me. I'm not into to all that GQ fashion.
When I signed with the Rockets, I just kind of felt like that was my calling card.
I want to retire here, man. The Suns gave me an opportunity to revive myself and why would I want to go anywhere?
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 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 think in Phoenix Phoenix is like the run and gun team. We used to do a drill where we'd try to score in the first seven seconds. We used to do that in practice.
I want to be that guy who stops players.
I'm never going to stop because I had a bad game. I'm never going to stop because somebody thinks that I can't do something. I'm going to always play the way I feel I should play, because I wouldn't have got to here if I felt like I couldn't.
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.
I think I have the ability to be athletic on both ends of the floor, so I just need to go out there and play with a lot of energy, a lot of enthusiasm.
A lot of times you get a good opportunity and it never comes again.
I never failed a class. Never.
I didn't understand a winning atmosphere until I got to Dallas.
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.
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.
When things just get bad you can't quit, you just have to keep fighting.
For a long time, I played for me, for my career.
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.
I'm not an interior decorator. I just shoot 3s.
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?'
I have vets like Antoine Walker, Greg Buckner, Mark Madsen, and Michael Doleac who keep me motivated to want to get better.
I've always been a fighter in my life.
I was honestly contemplating retirement. A lot of people don't know that, but I was done.
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.
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'll never be in a dunk contest again. I don't ever want to be a part of it.
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.
I didn't think I was going to school to be a doctor - no offense, but that wasn't me.
Not a day goes by that I don't think about my finger, but I don't really miss it.
Scoring is easy for me.
I don't want to be remembered for dunks, even though that will probably happen.
Hopefully I can win a ring before it's all said and done. Hopefully they'll remember me as being a champion.
That's a great trade. I'd trade myself for Kevin Garnett.
I do intend to achieve my education goals and obtain my college degree through distance programs.
No team wanted me. No overseas team. Not even a D-League team.
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.
I've been kind of thrown under the bus a few times in my career.
My Rottweiler really don't talk much. He just bites.
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 just got to try to go out there and let my game speak for itself.
I don't really get excited about games any more because I don't know if I'm going to play.
I kind of like being geeked up. I think that's the type of personality I have anyway.
I'm always animated; I'm always kind of crunk.
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.
I'm just so happy to be able to wear Celtics green again.
