Gerald Green

“When things just get bad you can't quit, you just have to keep fighting.”

“I need to be more of a take-what-the-defense-gives-me player and not force the issue.”

“I was honestly contemplating retirement. A lot of people don't know that, but I was done.”

“I haven't done nothing in this league. Every day I come into practice or come into a game, I'm just trying to prove myself.”

“I want to be that guy who stops players.”

“I just got to try to go out there and let my game speak for itself.”

“I'm me. I'm not into to all that GQ fashion.”

“I didn't understand a winning atmosphere until I got to Dallas.”

“I'm not an interior decorator. I just shoot 3s.”

“It's not about individual stats but whatever I can do to help my team win, I'm going to do.”

“I think you've gotta believe in yourself, I think you gotta put in a lot of work off the court to make sure you're ready.”

“The teachers told me I wouldn't amount to anything because I was a bad kid. But I knew I could still hoop.”

“Once I went overseas and had this real motivation to get back, I was willing to do whatever it took to stick in this league, and that's what I did.”

“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.”

“As a player you do kind of see you might need to get something going. Maybe it's diving on the ball, diving on the floor for a loose ball. Or maybe it's something that'll just energize the team, a lob dunk or a great pass or a great defensive play or an open shot, anything.”

“When you see the neighborhood that you grew up in being underwater, either you can sit down and look like everybody else, or you can get up and go try to help somebody that needs to be helped.”

“Some nights you're going to have a lot of energy, some nights you're not. The great ones find energy from nothing.”

“Yeah, I'm pretty old. I think I do still got it, though.”

“Certain games aren't going to be my game. Certain games aren't going to be other people's games. As long as we win with the main goal to make the playoffs, that's all that matters.”

“I've hit my head on the rim a couple number of times, back in high school.”