Quotes from Trae Young

People keep asking me if I feel pressure. But I don't feel pressure. I realize there's a lot on my plate, a lot of expectations for me to come in and win and do certain things. But I'm just playing the way I always have.

I'll always have a chip on my shoulder until I hang my shoes up. No matter how long I play this game, the chip on my shoulder will always be there. That won't change.

I think I can pretty much do it all for a team. And I'm looking forward to whatever team I go to, making a huge impact.

My hair is different than a lot of people's. I like my hair. I like the fade. I like the little design I have. I'm cool with it. Obviously my hair is thin on top, so it looks like a bald spot, but I really could care less.

I remember me being that kid growing up. Me being the kid that grew up going to games and being a ball boy and wanting a high five from Blake Griffin or the other players.

I bring immediate impact off the court as much as I do on the court.

Rod Strickland has been influential. He gives me a lot of advice, good and bad games; he is someone I really look up to a lot.

Not a lot of people take advantage of that opportunity of being different. A lot of kids that are highly touted coming out of high school, like, doing the traditional thing and going to the blue bloods and all that, but I was always different growing up.

I was never the big leaper, the dunker, the long and athletic kid who looked the part of a traditional basketball star. Truth be told, I wasn't even considered a top guard coming out of my recruiting class.

If I'm able to get drafted by the New York Knicks, it would be a blessing.

I'm just trying to be the best version of Trey Young.

To me, I'll always be the skinny, 5-foot-6 eighth-grader on the YMCA court, trying to get grown men to choose me for pickup games. It wasn't always easy. And that's what drives me.

I want people to say that I'm something new, something different. Something they've never seen before.

I'm glad people get excited watching me play. Hopefully I show them something new each time I step on the court.

I'll never regret a moment I spent at the University of Oklahoma or my decision to stay home and become a Sooner for life.

I'm getting guarded like nobody else in the country is being guarded, scouted on like no one else in the country is.

When you're around somebody all the time, you butt heads every now and then. That's what happens in every family.

My favorite player growing up was Steve Nash, so that's been a guy I look up to and a guy I've gotten to talk to a few times, too.

My confidence level never varies.

I'm actually enjoying attention. Who wouldn't?