Top 30 Derrick Favors Quotes

I like how calm and chill it is in Utah. It’s a good thing and it’s a bad thing. The bad part is, maybe after a big game you want to go out and hang out or whatever, and there’s really not too many spots like that in Utah.

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 know DeAndre Jordan, he’s a good player, good rebounder.

I feel like I got underestimated a little bit.

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

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.

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’m pretty sure I’m not looked at to score 20 a game. I can just do all the other stuff – rebound, defend, make plays.

I’m happy to be here at the NBA Draft no matter where I go.

I’ve been blessed with the opportunity to play the game I love for a living and it has given me a huge platform to help others.

I can go down to Atlanta any time I want, I grew up in Atlanta.

My favorite part about being a father is playing toys with them, or watching movies with them, really just playing around with them. They bring a lot of joy in to my life, even when I’m having a bad day. Just to come home and see them smiling brings so much joy to my life.

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

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.

Coming back, Utah just felt like home.

I’ve just gotta continue getting better and developing.

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.

I’m 19 years old from Atlanta, then a year later I go to New Jersey. I’m there for a couple months then the next thing I’m traded across the country to a place I’ve never been before. It was tough.

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.

I expect to be a leader on the court.

The Jazz have got one of the most loyal fanbases.

I took a trip down to Mexico. It kind of changed my perspective on life a little bit.

I worked out with a lot of guys with NBA experience around Atlanta, guys like Dwight Howard or Dion Glover sometimes or Josh Smith sometimes. They just tell me to keep working hard and it will pay off.

As a rookie, I was a pick-and-roll player. I was an energy guy who could dunk, block shots, rebound.

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

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 have watched the NBA draft just about every year, so to see myself up there, that is something I am excited about.

It’s a personal goal for me to be an All-Star.

I just go in, go do my workouts, go as hard as I can and let the chips fall where they may.

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.