Draymond Green says he thought about quitting multiple times this season until Steve Kerr kept saying the exact right things to keep him going. Green credits Kerr for never blaming players when things go wrong, unlike coaches who get fired for losing the locker room under pressure.
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I'm not a quitter. I don't know how to quit. But everyone has thoughts. You're a human being. And I can tell you, there's several times this year where I thought about quitting. And each time, he just say the right thing to relight that fire and make you want to go again. Say, "Yo, you are a motherfucker winner." That's a special coach. When you coming into a season expecting to compete for a championship, and it goes the way that it's going for us, man, good luck trying to keep that together. So many coaches you see get fired because they just can't hold it together. When it all goes wrong, they can't hold it together. Steve Kerr's a master at that. Not many coaches throw themselves under the bus. We see coaches every day point fingers. Uh, uh, uh, uh. The finger never does this. Steve Kerr never does this. He only do this. Still to this day, the way you get amazed by Steph Curry's shots or the way some is amazed by my defense is how I get amazed by his coaching when all the money is on the line. Woo!