DeMar DeRozan Quotes

DeMar DeRozan

Profession : Athlete

Birth : August 7, 1989

My mindset was that I was always going to be in Toronto my whole career, but I was never naive.

DeMar DeRozan

Day 1, when I was drafted to the Toronto Raptors, they had this stigma on them: Every guy leaves. Nobody wants to be here. Superstars, nobody wants to play in Canada. From Day 1, my whole mindset and approach to the game, being in Toronto, was I wanted to change that whole narrative to that whole organization.

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I took pride in everything when it came to Canada. Not even just Toronto, everything that came with Canada, wearing that Toronto Raptors jersey.

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I'm so quiet if you don't know me.

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I stay standoffish in a sense, in my own personal space, to be able to cope with whatever it is you've got to cope with.

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Every time I shoot a turnaround, I feel like nobody can block it.

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I never wanted to be ordinary. I never just wanted to do one thing.

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I didn't want to be regular. I didn't want to be this type of player, how everybody else play. I always try to learn and just be better so I could be different, y'know, instead of being content like a lot of people I've seen were.

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I played against Kobe a lot when I was in high school during the summers, even in college, just being that guy in L.A. coming up. He always gave me advice here and there, and even the smallest things stuck with me. I watched every single thing that Kobe did, every game, every move. He made me a student of the game.

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I never force nothing in my game. I let everything come whenever it needed to come. That's the beauty of it.

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People ask me what I would have done if it wasn't for basketball. I can never give a good story because I honestly don't know. I had no other options.

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