Quotes by Grayson Allen - Page 1

I can adjust to any situation.
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Adjust
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I think the NBA, they like competitive guys.
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Nba
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You don't go on nine-day road trips in college.
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Trips
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I'm more of a quiet guy, relaxed, calmer off the court.
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Relaxed
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I'm very appreciative to have the parents that I do have.
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Appreciative
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I really love Duke. My plan going in is to stay four years.
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Duke
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I don't feel a need to prove anything or rewrite my legacy.
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Legacy
Rewrite
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Marshall Plumlee. One of the weirdest/greatest guys I've met.
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Marshall
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For me, just my heart was here at Duke. I just wanted to be here.
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Duke
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I'm a firm believer that when something feels right, you go with it.
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Believer
Feels
Firm
Firm Believer
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Getting a degree from Duke University is an amazing accomplishment for me.
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Accomplishment
Duke
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Being the competitive guy that I am, I can't get into individual battles like I have.
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Battles
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When I'm playing timid and afraid to make a mistake, then I'm not going to play well.
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Mistake
Timid
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I'm confident about going out there and playing - playing with emotion, screaming and yelling.
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Yelling
Screaming
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If there's a loose ball, I'm going to dive and see if I can get it. That's just the way you play.
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Dive
Loose
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Duke has a lot of haters, but I know it means you're doing something right if they're hating you.
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Doing Know Right
Duke
Haters
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I learned how to prepare like a pro, how to recover like a pro, how to live like a pro while at Duke.
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Duke
Prepare
Pro
Recover
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Food is such a basic need, and it is unfathomable to me that people still do not have adequate access.
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Adequate
Unfathomable
Food Me People
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I think anyone who is also a fan of college basketball as well as the NBA, you have an opinion on Duke.
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Nba
Duke
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I found my identity in Christ. When everything else around me was falling down I found my identity in God.
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Everything Else
Falling
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I think I'm so much of a better driver than I was when I first came to Duke; that's the biggest thing for me.
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Biggest Thing
Me Better First
Better Me Than
Driver
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I love being a Duke student, and continuing to be part of the university culture is something I don't take for granted.
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Continuing
Granted
Duke
Take For Granted
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You don't want to put competitiveness and emotion away, so you learn to play with it. You learn to use it for your team.
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Competitiveness
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To me, every play counts. To me, how I play in individuals, how I play in practice, that's how I'm going to play in the game.
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Practice
Counts
Individuals
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From the time I started playing... When I tried out for a team in sixth grade and on - I was always starting through high school.
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Sixth
Time School Always
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I think the aggressive and loud way that I played in the championship game is kind of polarizing; you either love it or you hate it.
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Aggressive
Championship
Loud
Polarizing
Love Hate Game
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I think I'm a focal point for everyone. It's obvious that all the fans are watching every move that I make, and so why wouldn't the refs?
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Focal Point
Obvious
Focal
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In high school I would use that total defeat that I felt in any type of mistake to go to the gym. That's what made me such a hard worker.
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Defeat
Hard Worker
Worker
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I'm someone who really thinks the game through, who has an IQ about the game, who studies the game, who knows a lot more than just running and jumping.
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Jumping
Iq
Studies
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Half of the basketball world thinks I'm this hothead, dirty player who can't get anything under control and probably thinks I'm arrogant and a selfish guy.
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Arrogant
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As a basketball player, you want to play. There's only so much stuff I can go over doing one-on-one drills in practice and watching the team and watching film.
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Basketball
Basketball Player
Drills
One On One
Practice
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You probably know me best as a 4 year player, national champion, and graduate of Duke University, but I'm also a gamer, student, Christian, and a long time redditor.
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Gamer
Duke
Best Time Champion
Graduate
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I got used to throwing a lot of lobs, got used to finding shooters, finding cutters. Each year at Duke I have had to score in different spots. I think that has helped me so much.
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Spots
Throwing
Duke
Each Year
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Competitiveness that I've had as a player, competitiveness that was pointed in the wrong direction and went over the line. It's obviously something that I needed to work on and address.
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Competitiveness
Needed
Wrong Direction
Address
Direction
Obviously
Pointed
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I found the love that all my teammates had for me. I found the love that this Duke family, this Duke coaching staff, had for me. That's what sticks out to me because I know who I am today.
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Coaching Staff
Staff
Sticks
Teammates
Duke
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I don't feed off of the boos, I don't feed off anything like that... No one likes to get booed, no one likes to get cussed out, no one likes to get yelled at by 20,000 fans when you go places.
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Boos
Feed
Yelled
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I've come to learn that you could read through one hundred things, ninety of them could be positive, those ten negative ones are the ones you're going to remember, that are going to stand out.
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Ninety
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I really loved all my time at this university and so I hope it's seen how much I appreciate Duke. Not only playing basketball for Duke, but being a student at Duke, and I really am thankful for my time here.
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Thankful
All My Time
Duke
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I would play like one minute or not even get in at all. I'd see on Twitter - people would say, 'I hate that Grayson Allen guy at the end of the bench.' I'm like, 'What did I do?! I was in the game for 30 seconds.'
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One Minute
Seconds
Allen
Bench
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Duke has had many lightning rods over the years, it's a long list of 'em, a long list of white Duke basketball players that have been lightning rods. I didn't fully understand it before I came to Duke, but obviously I do now.
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Lightning
Duke
Long List
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The thing that you don't understand about college basketball until you're one or two seasons in - and something I've struggled with - is that you have to be 100 percent connected to your other four guys on the court at all times.
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Seasons
Struggled
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I'd rather have most of my life private. So, what you do see in me is on the court, and on the court, I am competitive. I'm an irritant to the other team. Emotional. Fired up. And so that's what people see, and that's what they judge off of.
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Life I Am Me
Life Me I Am
Fired
Irritant
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You think the end of my freshman year, from nobody really knowing who I was to skyrocketing onto the scene in the national championship game, there's nothing but good things to say after that. Then you get into the spotlight and it turns to hate.
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Championship
Freshman
Freshman Year
Spotlight
National Championship
Skyrocketing
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In a lot of ways I would love to be another student and love to be looked at as a Duke student and a senior and psych major and someone on the basketball team instead of Duke's polarizing, lightning rod, Grayson Allen villain, all those types of things.
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Basketball Team
Lightning
Polarizing
Senior
Villain
Allen
Duke
Rod
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If I was doing something that I really, really enjoyed I want to be perfect at it and not make mistakes and do everything right. And when inevitably I made mistakes, because that's what humans do, I would get very angry, very disappointed, very discouraged.
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Disappointed
Discouraged
Inevitably
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You get into the game and you know you're probably not going to be in there long. It's like, while I'm in here, I better not mess up. That's the completely wrong mentality to have. That works against how I play because how I play is 150 percent, going all out, going crazy.
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Going Crazy
Mentality
Mess
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Something like missing a shot, and the next play you're thinking about it, or you give up a play on defense and you're thinking about it, you're frustrated about it, what's happening is that you're really thinking about yourself. You're not connected to the team. And you have to be connected, or those few plays add up.
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Frustrated
Missing
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