I feel like when it comes to rap - like, real rap music - and knowing the pioneers of rap, I feel like there's no competition for me in the NBA. Other guys can rap, but they're not as invested or as deep into actual music as I am and always have been. I think that might be what the difference is. I'm more wanting to be an artist.

Damian Lillard

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If you want to look good in front of thousands, you have to out work thousands in front of nobody.

Damian Lillard

ifs want looks

If your dreams don't match your actions, you can either change your dreams or change your actions.

Damian Lillard

ifs dream action

I just want to keep working hard, stay humble, and keep trying to win games.

Damian Lillard

humble games winning

Anytime odds get stacked up against me, I feel like it's in me to beat it

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beats odds feels

Tried to get a little bit of space. ... Andre Iguodala grabbed my arm and I lost the ball a bit, there was a lot of contact, but obviously the ref is not going to decide the game or jump in at that point. So... good defensive play.

Damian Lillard

sports

Thats part of what makes it special, Im from here, i could walk home from here if I wanted to, that tells you how close it is.

Damian Lillard

sports

I think over the course of the series, at least after Game 1, I just havent seen the ball go in consistently enough, my job is to stay aggressive, keep doing what I do, and tonight, shots fell.

Damian Lillard

sports

Its basically a game where only one team is going to make it out, its your last opportunity to play, so facing elimination is what it is to me, and thats going to be my approach, just like it was tonight. The only thing is that its going to be on the road. Its for our season. All the marbles.

Damian Lillard

sports

All of those things that we did to give ourselves a chance to win were huge, and my part in it, I think, was probably my most important performance.

Damian Lillard

sports

We know how it feels to win again, now we can just kind of move on from that and stay focused on this series.

Damian Lillard

sports

It's nothing for us to be ashamed of, i thought we played a really good game. I don't think the score said the way the game went.

Damian Lillard

sports

It is impressive and I think it impressive for any team, to go out on the road and to win on someone else's floor is tough. Anything can go wrong on the road. We have grown so much. Over the last month or so we have really committed ourselves to every little thing that will allow us to win games. We have been over dedicated to these things and that is why we are winning games. After Lillard attacked the Knicks defense, it was McCollum's turn in the third. McCollum scored 13 of his 25 points in the third quarter and made three key plays late in the quarter to help Portland take an 85-72 lead into the fourth.

Damian Lillard

sports

You have to go win the game, (The Nets) made a push, and they took the lead. At that point, everything is out the window. Players gotta go win it; players gotta play. And we did that.

Damian Lillard

sports

Everybody picked their effort up and played with more energy in the second half, had we done that in the first half, it probably would have been a different result.

Damian Lillard

sports

Injuries are a part of the game. Every athlete knows that.

Damian Lillard

injuries game athlete knows

Sometimes, it's just your turn to go through hard times.

Damian Lillard

your go hard sometimes

This era is like, 'Oh, I want to win championships, and how many rings do you have?' I've said that's what I play for: to win. But I'm not as overly consumed by that as how I treat people around me. And how I care about the people around me.

Damian Lillard

win me you people

For me it's just amazing that I grew up watching Tim Duncan and KG and Kobe and Paul Pierce, Allen Iverson and all those guys and now it's like, 'Man, I can't believe they actually got old.' It's like they actually walked away. It's crazy to think about, but the game has to keep moving.

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game me man crazy

I'm loyal to Portland. I want to play my whole career here, but at any moment, they can decide we want somebody else.

Damian Lillard

career moment want play

I started working with Special Olympics when I was 17 years old. I'll never forget the first time I did it: I was at Weber State, and it was the summer before I started school. We have to get up in the morning and do this Special Olympics camp.

Damian Lillard

never-forget time morning school