Grayson Allen Quotes

Grayson Allen

Profession : Athlete

Birth : October 8, 1995

I don't feel a need to prove anything or rewrite my legacy.

Grayson Allen

I learned how to prepare like a pro, how to recover like a pro, how to live like a pro while at Duke.

Grayson Allen

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.

Grayson Allen

I'm very appreciative to have the parents that I do have.

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I'm confident about going out there and playing - playing with emotion, screaming and yelling.

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I'm focused on the good things and that makes you really appreciate what you are doing with the team and the time you are out there on the court.

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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.

Grayson Allen

If you watch college basketball growing up, you picture yourself in that moment, you picture yourself playing in the Final Four on a huge stage.

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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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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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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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