Quotes from Gerald Green

So, I just always try to prepare myself like I'm going to play even when I wasn't going to play. And when I wasn't playing, my thing is, I was always enjoying the team's success, always enjoying somebody else's success.

I think my one-on-one defense is pretty good.

Danny Ainge is a genius, man.

I've been trying to figure out what mistakes I'm making defensively as far as help defensive stuff.

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

I think I did that in my career, in Boston and Miami, being ready to play and at the same time when your number is not called, be ready to support your teammates, go out and be productive while not playing.

I do intend to achieve my education goals and obtain my college degree through distance programs.

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.

Not a day goes by that I don't think about my finger, but I don't really miss it.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

You know the famous quote, sometimes you have to be ready so you don't have to get ready. I do a lot of things that, it's like, off the camera, that a lot of people don't see me do.

I cried after I woke up from surgery and saw that my finger was gone. I was looking at my hand, going, 'Where the hell is my finger at?'

My son goes around shooting the basketball saying, 'Isaiah Thomas!'

I've been kind of thrown under the bus a few times in my career.

I'm never going to be a point guard, but you always have guards that get the rebound and take it coast-to-coast.

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.

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'm always looking at the ball and making sure it goes in. I'm not looking at where I'm at or what level I'm at in height.

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.

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