Top 60 Goran Dragic Quotes

Not everyone in this world has the same start in life. From that standpoint, we are trying to give as many kids as we can equal opportunities to succeed.

I would not want to be a firefighter.

I always try to play hard as possible to help my team – it doesn’t matter if it’s on defense or offense. I would say when I was young I was playing like that, too.

I always say that it’s tough to judge a player when you’re just hearing rumors. It’s never accurate.

It’s always tough when you beat your expectation and you win 48, 49 games and you expect the next year to win 50, 55 games.

When you know your team is standing behind you, it’s a little bit easier to play in those crucial moments. And I love it.

I mean everybody’s tired at the end of the season. But I’ve never hit the point that I was so tired that I couldn’t have kept going.

The bench is really important in the NBA because if you have a good bench, then you can make that playoff push even harder.

I feel like I’m evolving with my age.

It doesn’t matter who it is. If I’m going to see an open gap, I’m going to penetrate and try to finish over those guys. I’m not afraid of big guys.

I’m not a guy who is going back in the past.

I love Miami and would love to always be in Miami.

I want to play as much as I can, many years in this great association.

I love challenges.

Somebody said that I’m the worst player in the NBA, and my last name should not be Dragic, but ‘Tragic.’ Every time I was in a practice court, I had this in my mind.

When you have Dwyane Wade on your team, we know that the ball is going to go in his hands.

It’s a much easier job when you know what to expect on offense.

Brook Lopez is huge!

You never know before the season, when you get new players, how the chemistry is going to develop and how the season is going to go.

I have friends, family, we always as a family we’re really tight.

If you come into a season without goals, you’re just going through practice and it doesn’t mean anything to you. But if you set goals, you’re pushing yourself.

I always say I’m hurting sometimes, have a lot of injuries. But if you win a game, I feel great. But if you lose the game, those injuries, they come up. I don’t know how to explain it, winning is such a unique thing.

We try to win every game that we can.

If you want to be a good team, you have to play against the best teams. For me, personally, I want to have tough challenges.

I’m a pure lefty. Everything. I eat with my right hand, but when I was a kid, I was eating with my left. My mom was getting on me that that’s not nice, so I switched my hands.

I’m an average guy, skinny, not so tall, I put my sunglasses on, and I blend in.

It’s not my goal to be the main scorer. It’s whatever the opponent gives.

I’m going to do what’s best for the team.

When I came to the league, back in Europe I was so much faster than the other guys, I was always penetrating. I didn’t use my jump shot. When I came to the league it was tough to get to the basket. All those guys, they went under the pick-and-roll. It was long threes, especially for me coming from Europe.

My country, they give me everything.

Off the court I’m always shy, I don’t talk much. On the floor I’m a different guy.

Soccer helped especially with my footwork. When I played soccer, I was on offense scoring goals – I didn’t pass the ball so much so it probably didn’t help much with being a point guard.

We’ve got a ping-pong table back home back in Slovenia. I always smash the ball.

My grandma died by cancer.

I like to watch shows.

It’s always nice to go back and play for my country. My teammates and I grew up together.

If he gets everyone involved, everyone is happy and you have that chemistry and you’re winning.

When you come out of pick-and-roll, it’s really tough to step back and shoot because the defender is coming.

I would not want to be a cop.

My first time alone in Spain playing basketball – that kind of made me tougher, especially for my character and my personality. It’s not easy when you’re alone. Some nights you have bad games or bad days and it’s not easy. I think that is the one thing that changed me, to make me a better person, a tougher guy.

I’m a good defender, so I like to play defense.

I always cherish my ancestors, my grandpa, great-grandpa, what they did for us, especially my dad who moved from Bosnia. He started a new life in Slovenia so basically I grew up there.

Standing in the corner, it’s not my game.

I’m like, how do you say, a little version of Tony Parker. But I must work hard to be as good as he is.

I like to penetrate and play fast basketball.

I feel like some things, you can’t just force it.

I always had this in my head that I could play in this league, that I’m good enough… but of course you have to prove that on the floor.

Every opponent is different. Some guys are going to be in pick-and-roll a little bit higher, and then you have opportunities to drive for layups. Some guys are going to zone deeper and then the mid-range shot is open.

Even people back home, when I went to the NBA they were questioning whether I was good enough, I’m skinny, I don’t have outside shot. As a player, sometimes that criticism, you just have to take that and try to convert it into motivation.

I played for 12, 13 years nonstop. That takes a toll on your body.

I always want to practice and play. But sometimes your body or your head doesn’t allow you to do that.

Definitely, my whole life I’ve played as a point guard. I’ve tried to get in the paint, and I’ve tried to develop for others.

A lot of people don’t recognize me. I like that. Perfect.

Oh yeah, I’m motivated. Always.

I like to experience all different kinds of foods.

Sometimes on the outside courts we’d play and guys would get into fights. I never backed down, even if the guy was stronger and I’d get punished.

We are basketball players so we want to compete.

The most important thing is that my family and I are happy.

Like a lot of fans know, I like to play fast basketball.

I gave to my country everything I had.