Top 98 Quotes & Sayings by Patrick Beverley
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Last updated on December 22, 2024.
I feel like any team I'm on, I can help take that team to the playoffs.
I'm locked in no matter what I'm doing. If it's a competition, I'm locked in.
I can't name a backup point guard better than me in the NBA.
There are a lot of players out there who want to be in my position.
I represent Chicago.
Coming from where I come from, I didn't have the luxury of having a trust fund. Or money from generations. Or the luxury of hoppin' into the family business, you know?
I like to stay on the ground, and remember that you get out what you put in.
Women lie, men lie, numbers don't.
I've guarded a lot of people.
Every team I play, I'm playing them like we playing the Golden State when they had Kevin Durant. Every point guard I play, I'm playing Steph Curry. Every shooting guard I'm playing, I'm playing James Harden. Every three-man I'm playing, I'm playing LeBron and KD.
Chicago is everything to me.
Don't talk to me about getting comfortable. It makes me uncomfortable.
When you play me, I'm going to get right up in your grill and let you know it's going to be a long day. It's going to be physical. It's going to be something you don't like. It's going to be hell.
If I wasn't playing basketball, I would be in the streets.
I do track, I run football fields, I run hills. I run until you feel like you can't run any more. I do the pool, I do anything that takes my body to the limit.
I just want to shine a light on the city of Chicago.
I hate being pressured. I hate when someone gets in my personal area. That's why I do it to everybody else.
I want to make sure the other point guard can't start his offense until 12 or 13 seconds. Then I've put my team in position to defend just one pick-and-roll and one pass.
I don't want personal battles that take away from the team. I'm trying to win games.
Actually when I was overseas I didn't watch any NBA. I was like, 'Forget the NBA,' and this and that. 'Cause I was hurt that I wasn't on an NBA team. I kind of was rebellious when it came to that because I was kind of jealous and envious that I wasn't on an NBA team, so I kind of just focused on my game and focused on overseas.
I am Chicago. I'm from Chicago. I bleed Chicago. I really think I can help the city. I think I can save the city.
I like to bump people, to feel me getting into somebody's jersey. I'm just different. I like contact, like physical play, like pushing and holding. But I'm not dirty.
If I didn't get paid to play this game, I'd still play it the exact same way, with as much intensity and as much focus as I play it with now.
You don't ever salute losing - ever.
Europe has by far the most hostile crowds I've ever played in.
I can't let myself down. I can't let my hood down, my area down.
I'm a Chicago kid. So, of course, I'm open to playing for the Chicago Bulls if that's a team that's interested in me. At the same time, any decision that is made, it's never personal. It's always business. I have to make the right decision for me and my family.
I am tired of losing people.
Of course, the human part of you wants to take as much money as you see, but all money isn't good money.
Sometimes you don't get in through the front door. Sometimes you don't get in through the back. Sometimes you got to climb through the window. That doesn't mean the opportunity wasn't there. There's a way; you've just got to find it.
Coming from the projects, we used to sneak into the United Center, watch some games; they chased us out and everything.
I'm talking to my teammates and talking to the opponent. That's the type of player I am.
If I had to play myself, I'd probably want to fight me too.
I can't let Chicago down. I got to put on for my city.
Anything I do that's competitive, I try to win. That's the way I've always been, and I like to keep it that way no matter what I'm doing.
You know me, I'm not big into the numbers. I just like to go out there and have fun and have a ton of energy.
I have the type of passion that I don't think a lot of people have.
The biggest thing for me when I got to L.A. was everybody wrote us off to make the playoffs. That was one of my goals. Put that on my mirror. We did it as a team. And that's my thing: Wherever I go, I'm going to win.
I'm a 6'1' guard, but I'm blessed to have a wingspan of 6'7'. I have good lateral movement. For me, fighting over screens and using my hands, I kind of get tips on the ball. People don't understand getting a hand on the ball - not just stealing it - means a lot, especially in this league because everything happens so fast.
First and foremost, you never want to see anyone get injured.
I'm a really strong guy. I can deal with a lot of things. But I can't deal with anybody suffering.
I don't go out there to hurt people, I don't even know how to attempt to hurt somebody. I play hard, bring the edge. I'm an instigator. That gets me going.
I take my role very seriously.
I get booed everywhere I go. If that can take that off my teammates, that's good. Everyone else can just be calm.
Faith and hard work have been my mirror.
No matter how much I make or what I get, I still think that I gotta go out there and prove something. That's going to be my mentality and that's my motivation.
I am from the West Side of Chicago. I have been looking over my shoulder my whole life. I am not worried about a death threat.
People don't believe this, but until sixth grade I'd never seen a white person who wasn't with the police or on TV.
I look at like this: Any player I guard, long twos or shots like that, if they make them I still think that's good defense. You can't make those shots at a high percentage the whole game. It's just hard to make long two-pointers, step-backs, fadeaways, off-the-dribble crossovers.
I'll never forget where I come from. Especially my humble beginnings.
I put myself in debt to get to the NBA.
I'm the best guard in this league, defensively, man, hands down.
I learned you can't get too comfortable.
I don't like people getting the best of me or saying that they beat me. Every game I play, every competition I'm in, whether it's in a game, playing cards, video games, whatever it is, I'm trying to win. That's always been my competitive nature.
I am the coolest dad in the world.
Things are not going to be easy, things are not going to be fair. Just do your best.
Basketball players want to be comfortable, they want to be lackadaisical, they want to make the right passes and take the right shots.
I never act like something I'm not.
I worked in the summertime with the Bulls, I don't know, two-three years in a row, Vinny Del Negro, he told me I didn't play defense.
They really allow you to play overseas. They let you play through everything - holding, grabbing, illegal screens, tough hand-checking and tough defense. Playing overseas for five years, that's all I knew. When I got to the Rockets, I brought that same mindset.
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