I'm a great player.

I don't take nothing for granted.

Beyonce. I love it. Big Beyonce fan.

I appreciate the route God put me through.

Each day I give it my all, whether good or bad.

Always stay positive and keep positive people around you.

At the end of the day I did have LeBron James on my team.

Learn, learn, learn, and the sky is the limit for the young kids.

I've been the guy who has been the third option most of my career.

When I talk, it's meaningful. It's useful. I don't just talk to talk.

So I guess Cleveland is a city for me that brings a lot of newness to my life.

I have my days like everyone else, but mostly I'm the calm guy. I'm the laid-back one.

To me basketball is secondary. I had to really fight for my life. I almost died over this game.

My game is what it is. I just have to improve on different things. Just show it out there on the court.

Money comes, and money goes. I just want to win games. I could care less how much money is riding on a rebound.

My game pretty much speaks for itself - a guy who can play multiple positions... attack in different situations.

Education, for me, was big. It allows me to have different avenues, job-wise, because basketball is not forever.

I want to play, I wanted to finish out the games, but I've got to make sure I'm right before I step out on the floor.

You want to get your teammates involved. You want to make the right play. But sometimes you have to be the guy to make the play.

I'm very fortunate and thankful everyday to the man up above. Because without Him, and my friends and family, I wouldn't be here.

A lot of us take the game for granted, but that's not the case for me. I'm truly humbled by the game and when I say it, I mean it.

It's not in my place to comment on what the media says. You can write whatever you want to write. I'd just rather it be the truth.

When you get to a team whether you're traded, drafted, or signed, you owe it to the organization and your teammates to give it your all.

I don't care what position I'm at. I'm on the floor, I'm playing, I'm thankful for that, so whatever coach tells me to do, I'm going to do.

When you have a coach who pinpoints the places you're at most of the time you're on the court, you sort of become a player that's stuck in this box.

I overcame a big struggle and was able to play in the most prestigious league in the world - something that kids dream of - and play for a long time.

Going through heart surgery, being on blood thinners, having been in the hospital is not something you want to go through. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.

Sometimes I get caught in just trying to get assists, trying to help my teammates get a good shot, and I think I put myself in positions where I get turnovers or I force the issue.

I've never been in this position where I've had to take an 'X' amount of shots, where I've had to focus on scoring. All of my career has been being a defensive player just running the floor.

Everybody has their opinions of what Jeff Green should be or what I can do, but I have to go out there and prove it to myself that I work hard and I put in the work to be in the position I'm in.

My feelings for Cleveland are a little bit different because there's always the memory of me having surgery here. Cleveland is a special place to me now because it's a place that helped save my life.

I'm blessed to see another day. For something like that, with any strenuous activity, the tissue could rupture. Could have died, quite frankly. I'm grateful to the doctors in Boston that detected the aneurysm.

Every morning waking up and every night going to bed, I look at my scar. And I tell the Lord, 'Thank you for the blessing that He's given me to keep living, to keep playing, just to continue to breathe everyday.'

Sometimes you can get into a phase where you takes things for granted, especially each day. When you go through something life-threatening, something that could change something you love, it makes you appreciate it much more.

The hardest part was four days after the surgery - my heart rate was very high, I was choking, I couldn't cough, and I started crying. And it was seeing the way my chest looked, definitely deformed. I'm a fit guy, I'm a skinny guy, but to look in the mirror I was bloated with all of the meds.

I'm going to be a dad in a couple of weeks and by the grace of God, He's allowing me to see this moment and I can't wait. I think about it every day. My fiance and I have pillow talk about it every day, all day. I rub her belly, I'm blessed and I can't wait for my little princess to get here.

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