Hopefully I'm going to be a good father. I'm going to try and give my best.
Goran Dragic
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.
I already said to D-Wade and Steve Nash and those guys, 'I don't know how you guys do it.' Of course, I want to be a famous basketball player, but not to that standpoint where you go out and you don't have peace. You cannot enjoy your personal life. I would rather be with my family and do what I want.
It's not my goal to be the main scorer. It's whatever the opponent gives.
I watch tape of players - Chris Paul, Deron Williams, all the top players who play my same position.
I'm like, how do you say, a little version of Tony Parker. But I must work hard to be as good as he is.
The older you get, the more you need to work on your game and try to survive with those young fellas out here.
It doesn't matter who it is. If I'm going to see an open gap, I'm going to penetrate and try to finish over those guys. I'm not afraid of big guys.
I mean, at the beginning of a season you never know how things are going to turn out. You're always going in positive, believing in the work that's been done.
I would not want to be a cop.
I like to watch shows.
I would not want to be a firefighter.
The bench is really important in the NBA because if you have a good bench, then you can make that playoff push even harder.
Definitely, my whole life I've played as a point guard. I've tried to get in the paint, and I've tried to develop for others.
I was always good at penetrating in Europe, but in Europe, you don't have so many shot-blockers as there are in the NBA, so it was easier.
If you want to be a good team, you have to play against the best teams. For me, personally, I want to have tough challenges.
I'm a pure lefty. Everything. I eat with my right hand, but when I was a kid, I was eating with my left. My mom was getting on me that that's not nice, so I switched my hands.
My first time alone in Spain playing basketball - that kind of made me tougher, especially for my character and my personality. It's not easy when you're alone. Some nights you have bad games or bad days and it's not easy. I think that is the one thing that changed me, to make me a better person, a tougher guy.
I started playing soccer first and then basketball. I had a leg injury when I was young and my mom said, 'come on, try to choose a different sport.'
I'm a lefty, so I really love Manu Ginobli's games.
I like to experience all different kinds of foods.
When you have Dwyane Wade on your team, we know that the ball is going to go in his hands.
For me, definitely, to make the All-Star team, that's something that I'm always going to remember.
Of course, if you have D. Wade on your team, he's the best closer in the history of this sport, so the ball needs to go in his hands, but I was always ready. I was always ready. I remember every time he would play pick-and-roll, he said, 'G, just be ready. Maybe you're going to be open. I need to hit you.'
When you know your team is standing behind you, it's a little bit easier to play in those crucial moments. And I love it.
I love Miami and would love to always be in Miami.
I'm a good defender, so I like to play defense.
I like to penetrate and play fast basketball.
You always want to play good against your ex-team.
It's always nice to go back and play for my country. My teammates and I grew up together.
It doesn't matter who's standing on the other side. I'm always going to play my game.
My game is to attack. If I'm aggressive, I'm at my best.
We are basketball players so we want to compete.
I want to play as much as I can, many years in this great association.
Somebody said that I'm the worst player in the NBA, and my last name should not be Dragic, but 'Tragic.' Every time I was in a practice court, I had this in my mind.
Off the court I'm always shy, I don't talk much. On the floor I'm a different guy.
I can express my will on the court. I'm kind of, how you say... a little bit cocky and try to fight some guys.
Even people back home, when I went to the NBA they were questioning whether I was good enough, I'm skinny, I don't have outside shot. As a player, sometimes that criticism, you just have to take that and try to convert it into motivation.
When I was younger, I showed my nation that I would always play for my national team, no matter who was there. If we had a good team or a bad team, I was there.
I played for 12, 13 years nonstop. That takes a toll on your body.
To be a point guard, to run the team and have the ball in my hands and try to make plays for others - that's who I am.
Standing in the corner, it's not my game.
We try to win every game that we can.
I learn from my mistakes.
I always want to practice and play. But sometimes your body or your head doesn't allow you to do that.
My country, they give me everything.
I have friends, family, we always as a family we're really tight.
I always cherish my ancestors, my grandpa, great-grandpa, what they did for us, especially my dad who moved from Bosnia. He started a new life in Slovenia so basically I grew up there.
It's always tough when you beat your expectation and you win 48, 49 games and you expect the next year to win 50, 55 games.
I always say I'm hurting sometimes, have a lot of injuries. But if you win a game, I feel great. But if you lose the game, those injuries, they come up. I don't know how to explain it, winning is such a unique thing.
