Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Austin Rivers
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Last updated on December 21, 2024.
If someone is constantly out of shape, late and don't remember plays, how the hell are you supposed to play?
In terms of playing for my father, that was an amazing experience that me and him got to do. But that was that.
This chip on my shoulder, this swagger and confidence, it helps me. If I didn't have it, I would not be in the NBA.
I grew up in Orlando.
I'm just kind of private just because I grew up always with a camera in my face because of my father, and I was highly touted and ranked in high school. So I just like to be kind of low-key off the court.
He and I don't know each other like that. We know each other as strictly basketball. A lot of people on the outside don't understand that because people think we have a relationship like every other father and son. We just don't. That's because he's been gone my whole life, and that's fine.
I don't want to just meet LeBron. I want to destroy him on the court one day.
I know what the narrative is on me. It's because I come from money and I have a swagger and confidence about me.
On any team I've played for, I'm going to play good minutes.
When Houston called, I was like, 'I think this could be a great fit.'
I had to go through the same things that anyone's son went through. And you know, there aren't that many guys whose dads played who got to the league.
I do like watches. I like the sophistication of it all. Like the whole thing behind collecting watches is very grown man-esque, so it makes me feel more an adult.
I am like a germophobe to the max to the point where it actually bothers people sometimes.
Most teams don't do anything. Really it's just take the ball out the basket, pick-and-roll, and run.
I think I'm a shooting guard and a point guard, to be honest with you.
I've always been a fan of Patrick Beverley.
The easiest thing sometimes is just playing. You don't have to worry about the plays, this and that, you just play.
I was the 10th pick, people were thinking could be an All-Star, but I turned out to be a pretty damn good pro.
I always watch guys and take a lot of little stuff. I've taken a lot of hesitation stuff from Steph Curry. I think he's the best at that.
Judge me all you want as a player. Some people think I'm a great player, some people don't. That's fine. Numbers don't ever lie.
A lot of teams have won one state championship, but not many teams can say they went back-to-back.
Wherever I go, I'm going to work as hard as I can and do everything I can to help the team immediately.
Golden Oreo cookies. I've got 10 boxes of them in my room. I am obsessed with them. But I burn them right off in practice.
If you go two years without playing with confidence, when your whole life, you've been extremely confident and a hard worker... I got punched in the mouth, and it took me a while to adjust. I kind of had my confidence - I don't want to say taken away, because no one should ever be able to take your confidence away.
I think sometimes adding pressure can be good.
I've put everything in my rearview mirror and I've continued to silence people. That's how I'm going to... continue to be happy living my life. And in the process, I silence haters.
I've earned every stripe that I've gotten. I've earned every playing time.
We're caught in an era where everyone likes riding a wave. People want to go to places that are already on the rise and going to franchises that are already doing really well. And people have lost interest in going somewhere and making something great again.
It's easy to go somewhere where everything already is set up and they've been to the playoffs four, five years in a row. I've been on those teams. Those are great experiences.
At the end of the day, it's the general managers' and the scouts' opinion on you and what teams need, what they're looking for.
I want my son to look at me the way I looked at my pops. That's what I want from him.
Trash talk can get confused with fight talk.
I'm going to do what I do and be aggressive and try to help the team in any area I can. And just build.
When I came here to L.A., I can't give enough credit to the coaches and the players I play with.
I don't want people thinking I say disrespectful things to people.
When your move with your left hand can be just as potent as your right hand, I think that's pretty special. I think that's why Kyrie's the best, because he finishes so well around the rim with his left or right.
Everyone has an opinion about things they don't know much about. You just have to tune everybody out.
For the guys who would say, 'oh, your dad, this and that, you've got to the league or here because of him'... they're hypocrites.
You can't play worrying about, like, what will other people say about me. That's not how I've ever approached the game.
I feel like I always have to smell good.
I grew up, I used to two-ball dribble, one-ball dribble like three or four times a week for like an hour all the way up until I got into the league where I felt like I now have it in my head.
Just being in the NBA, period, would be great.
I cross somebody once a game. Now whether you make an elite shot or whatever determines if it's a highlight, but I cross someone once a game, James Harden crosses someone four or five times a game. When you're guarding guys, you have to understand it's going to happen.
How would you deal with it if you're 9 years old, people are telling you, 'You suck,' and they don't give sympathy? They don't feel bad for you because of who your dad is.
You just go out there and shoot it, and that's the way I've been my whole life.
I've always been a peacemaker.
It seems that once I stepped foot in L.A., I saw an opportunity and took it, and haven't looked back.
You have a kid and realize what's really important. It actually takes pressure off everything. Nothing will come before fatherhood for me, ever in my life.
It's a 30-game season, and guys in college are big, strong, athletic and they're playing to show you what they can do to win every single game.
I don't understand someone not wanting to play for a city like New York. I just don't get that.
It would be weird if people weren't cheering against you. It would be boring.
My daily watch is Rolex, stainless steel. They're light, they're comfortable.
Like, I'm not enjoying LeBron's greatness right now. I mean, I have no fun playing against him. So you don't get to enjoy it until you look back.
I keep all my trash talk to basketball. I don't ever go after anybody.
I didn't focus on trying to be Doc. I just tried to be myself.
It's been a long journey. Continued to work through my rookie year. I was hurt a lot. Up and down.
I was the No. 1 player in high school. I was a lottery player at Duke. I was player of the year in the ACC as a freshman. People just forget about these things, like I don't deserve to be in the league.
It's a new NBA, man. Guys are playing on a new team every year now, and it has nothing to do with how good of a player you are, it's just how the NBA is.
I have really good lateral movement. I've always had quick lateral movement.
The thing is, I don't hate North Carolina. I know we're rivals now, but I almost went there. For me it was UNC or Duke. So I love that school. And at the end of the day, the rivalry stuff, that's just fun.
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