Zitat des Tages von Blake Griffin:
I do have a lot of resolutions, but I don't really make them at New Year's much.
It's just cool to try to leave behind something or improve something from how you left it.
The thing in basketball is you always want to be free. I don't want to be hugged up to my guy. When we're body to body, I want to control you.
Coach Capel's got style. He's always got fresh Nikes on. He's got some pretty sweet suits.
During the playoffs, I tone down the Internet usage.
Before a game, I prefer R&B and stuff that calms me down, like the Weeknd.
My thing is, I want to play for the team that wants me to be a part of them.
Food is a big part of my life.
One of my favorite games of all time was on Nintendo 64 - 'NFL Blitz.' I don't know why, I just loved that game - being able to hit people after the play and stuff was always fun.
Every team starts out at the beginning of the year saying, 'We want to win a championship,' but you've got to have a goal of getting to the playoffs first.
When you have a tough year or a year that didn't go the way you wanted it, especially the playoffs and all that and not being able to take advantage of our team and our talent on our team, you feel that. And whenever something is taken away from you like that, you definitely cherish it more.
You just have to know that there's people watching you, and you've got to be a positive role model and not put yourself in bad situations.
I love L.A. You definitely can't beat the weather, and being close to the beach is nice. It's a good town.
You're not going to please everybody. I've just got to do whatever I feel is right, just use my judgment.
That's what I'm always searching for - finding the balance between not caring so much to where I put all this pressure on myself. But still caring enough to where it pushes me to work exactly how I've been working so far.
It's always a little gross when you're guarding someone and you can see, like, hair coming from underneath his jersey.
The hardest thing for me is to be patient and realize that it's not all going to happen right now. I just have to keep digging away, digging away. Just keep working on my game.
I've put myself in the best possible positions through my daily training and my recovery processes and my offseason regimen and preparation. I break down when I have these freak injuries happen, when the hard work is basically thrown out.
Lob City doesn't exist anymore. Lob City is done.
Sometimes you get the rap of, 'Don't always play hard,' or, 'Just doing it for the money.' But there are guys that genuinely love the game of basketball and are always playing it and are always out there. There are guys that work hard and actually understand the game and are very knowledgeable off the court as well.
I want a long and healthy career.
To me, I never get too caught up in the position thing. At the end of the day, you're playing your game.
The thing about the max is, you're worth whatever somebody is willing to pay you, in my mind.
When the draft lottery came out, and the Clippers said they were gonna draft me, I went to Google to find out more about the Clippers because I didn't know a lot. And I was like, 'Okay, team owned by Donald Sterling.' So then I typed in 'Donald Sterling' in Google, and the first thing that pops up is 'Donald Sterling racist.'
I've always had a very dry sense of humor, and I've pretty much grown up on Will Ferrell, first on 'Saturday Night Live,' then 'Old School' and 'Wedding Crashers.'
We can't have the mindset of becoming complacent with losing.
My biggest problem with everything going on is the lack of understanding and the lack of respect in this world.
I still think, when you go to the Garden, it's a completely different feeling. The energy - there seems like there's just a consistent buzz the entire game.
I wanted to be a complete player, and I felt like the dunks started to overshadow other parts of my game.
Playing 82 games is a haul, and with eight or nine exhibition games, it's a long process. You've got to take care of your body and make sure you're getting your work in and staying healthy throughout the whole season.
I've never had hard feelings with any of my teammates who decided to leave or felt like it was best to leave.
Basketball is basketball, but with each level, there's new challenges and new things you have to pick up.
I've never seen somebody get more flak than Colin Kaepernick for silently and nonviolently protesting and standing up for something he believes, and something that obviously is an actual problem.
Playing in the NBA has been a dream of mine for a long time, so to finally get to do that is amazing.
I feel like people believe I'm thinking a different thing than I am because I have this look about me.
There are times when hard fouls are just a part of the game, and then there's times when they're a little bit further than that.