Quotes from Gerald Green

Hopefully I can win a ring before it's all said and done. Hopefully they'll remember me as being a champion.

I don't want to be remembered for dunks, even though that will probably happen.

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.

When I signed with the Rockets, I just kind of felt like that was my calling card.

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

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 try to tell young guys - like, if I see a young guy pressing, I try to tell him to relax and play your game.

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.

That's a great trade. I'd trade myself for Kevin Garnett.

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.

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?'

If I see somebody that's doing something good, I tell him, Hey, man, keep doing those things. Those things can make you be a great pro.'

I'm just trying to look at everything as positive as I can to keep me motivated.

I never really believed in Satan, or that there was pure evil in the world, until I came here.

It seemed to me at that moment that the peril hanging over us, the horrors we had seen at Babi Yar and elsewhere, made it all the more vital that we love each other, never hurt each other, always be truthful and gentle with each other. Helena understood that also. I could see it in her eyes, sense it in her sighs, and small cries, and reluctance to let go of me.

My mother had that talent for endowing any place she was with dignity and charm. She behaved elegantly and politely, and thus hoped to change the world.

There is a kind of psychotic middle-class hate asserting itself here, exactly the thing that produced Hitler. It strikes out everywhere, at anyone, mindless, cruel, convinced only it is right and that all who disagree are traitors.

We can't all be like him, or his brother, or Helms, or the rest of those people.' 'No,' she said sadly. 'But I wish to God we could be something else.

They choose not to believe. Or they think we are lying. The crime is so enormous, they won't believe it. That's what the Germans are counting on.

She pushed a strand of white hair under the scarf. Surely, it seemed to Sweeney and Wettlaufer, she was the essence of the good deed unselfishly performed, the deed that could save the world if the world wanted saving.

Whatever God is He's in them. Not everyone. But in some people. He sort of doles Himself out a little, and He shows up in people where you'd never expect it. Huguette and Father Latour and Kruis and Mr. Munk. God gave a little piece of Himself to make 'em.

Yes, they were part of him. He hoped he was a little part of them--if only a memory, a fraction of their consciousness. How the Sweeney's of the world needed them. He blinked fiercely, stemming his tears. I am not much of a man, but at least I have known them.

No, it couldn't all be bad the way Stonebreaker insisted it was. There were people who hid the children from the sanctioned murderers; people who looked the horror in the eye and said, no, no, you can't do it any more, we're against you even if you kill us. Thus had Sweeney's friends acted, and they had redeemed belief and tradition for millions.

All the ghettoes were being wiped out. The Germans were killing all the Jews." "But why? Why?" Helena asked. "They don't need reasons," I said. "Any excuse works for them, because they have the guns and we don't.