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“When I saw Steph say he deals with impostor syndrome, I was like, ‘Damn.’ I know Steph really well. We’ve spent 13 years together. I’ve probably spent more time with Steph over the last 13 years than anybody in my life.”

“I didn’t really know that. But when he said it, I was like, ‘Ah, makes sense, because I too feel like that at times.’ But I’m also not Steph Curry, so I’m like, ‘Oh damn, him too?’ The doubt for both of us is what our journey is built on. Klay too. We all were, in a sense, overlooked.”

“The doubt is actually what did this for us. You didn’t see it coming. You doubted all of us. He’s too small, not strong enough. He can’t dribble well enough. He can’t play. He don’t shoot it. All of us. Our foundation is actually built on: I’m covering his weakness here. He’s covering my weakness there. He’s going to cover his weakness there.”

“We bonded around that and used everything we had together to lift this thing up. That’s what brought us together and lifted us up and created this thing that I still can’t believe. Like, damn, we won four championships. It is built on the doubt. We banded around each other on the doubt.”

“People be like, ‘Yo, I don’t know how Steph deals with him. I don’t know why Steph still wants him on this team.’ You’ll never understand why. We’re bonded by the doubt. That’s probably the key ingredient to everything you’ve seen us do.”

“We relied on each other. There is no one of us without the other one. There’s no Draymond without Steph. There’s no Steph without Draymond. There’s no Klay without Steph. There is not one of us without each other.”

I’ll tell you a great story about Roger Federer. We were playing in China with the Warriors in 2017. Roger was in Shanghai for the Masters tournament, so we invited him to come speak to the team.”

“Draymond Green asked him, ‘How do you sustain success? How have you managed to win majors 20 years after you first won one?’ Everyone was expecting him to say, ‘I work harder than everybody,’ the will, all the clichés.”

“Roger Federer says, ‘I get up every morning and I make breakfast for my kids. Then I take them to school and drop them off. Then I go practice tennis for about two hours, and I’ve figured out a really good routine where I don’t destroy my body, but I can get all the work in I need.”

“‘Then I go have lunch with my wife. In the evening, we cook dinner together. The kids are all home from school. We ask them about school. There’s so much joy in the house. We put them to bed, and then I put my head on the pillow and go, “Man, that was just a great day.” And I’ve been doing that for 20 years.’”

“And it was like, yes. That’s it. That’s the formula. That’s what leads to sustained success. He loves tennis. He loves his family. He loves life. It’s not outworking everybody and banging your head against the wall, ‘I’m going to be better than everybody.’ It’s allowing your natural talent to shine through with a work ethic, with a great family life, with perspective, with peace, with mindfulness.”

“It’s perspective. It’s joy. It’s passion. It’s mindfulness. It’s an awareness that we are truly lucky. To get the most out of ourselves, it’s our daily rituals and experiences and love and joy.”