Quotes from Derrick Favors

After what happened with my mom passing, I was just like I need to get back. I just need to get back to my routine, get back to playing basketball.

My senior year in high school I knew was going to be drafted into the NBA.

You've gotta be able to score around the basket.

Know sometimes you might have to sacrifice minutes or scoring opportunities just for the betterment of the team. And I think once everybody buys into that, I think that's how you get tighter as a group and start winning more games.

When I set picks and rolled to the basket early in my career, either I'd dunk or it'd be an offensive foul where I run the guy over.

I thought it was destiny that I was going to play basketball.

Cartoons only showed you certain things. The comic books go in deep.

I can hedge out on the screen-and-roll, I can fall back, and I can switch. I'm pretty good with everything on the pick-and-roll.

Whichever position coach decides to put me at, I will be ready, I want to be able to use my jumper as a weapon in whichever position they put me at.

Some games you going to play great. Some games you're not. So, it's all about moving on to the next game, next possession. Just come in there every day working, figuring out what you got to work on and see what you did wrong in either in the last game or the last season or whatever.

In the past years, I got in a lot of foul trouble because I was out of position, or because I was just too aggressive. I was trying to block too many shots. It's really just learning when to take a chance at blocking shots, and to get to spots early.

Other teams and other opponents, they look and see I'm 6-foot-10 and think I'm a 5 man or whatever, so they try to take advantage of it.

You just have to know how to put in the work, know how to be patient, how to take advantage of every opportunity that you get.

I do make a difference. I just come out and provide a presence in the paint, defensively and offensively. I play hard.

No one would get a tattoo like this, so I decided to get Jesus holding a basketball.

When you bring kids in to the world it's a big responsibility, you're responsible for taking care of those kids and providing for the kids and whatnot. It's been a huge change in my life; it's been a great experience for me.

Every summer I kept figuring out what I needed to work on to be productive the next season.

Georgia Tech definitely helped me a lot. I don't know about coming out of high school. But Georgia Tech was good for me. I got a lot stronger, a lot more used to not having the ball in my hands all the time, moving without the ball, setting screens.

I've enjoyed my time at Georgia Tech and feel my year here has helped my development as a player.

When you first come in the league as a big man, they tell you to be physical down there. No layups, all that kind of stuff. So you have to buy into it, because you think it's going to get you more playing time. But it really just gets you more foul trouble.

I want my friends and family to see me play.

My mom, she had a challenging job raising three kids on her own and having to work at the same time, you know that shows me a lot. It shows me how hard she worked, how much she cared about us and I want to do the same thing for my kids.

I've just gotta continue getting better and developing.

Everybody has that outlet in life when they're going through different stuff. They like to do different stuff whether it's reading books or watching movies. My outlet was going to comic books because it got me out of this world and put me into that world and let me use my imagination.