A Quote by Austin Rivers

Trash talk can get confused with fight talk. — © Austin Rivers
Trash talk can get confused with fight talk.
Honestly, I don't like trash talk, because we gonna fight anyways, right? We don't need to trash talk.
I talk trash, but the thing is, I talk trash about people I'm actually going to fight, who are actually in my weight class.
Everybody gets all worked up about trash talk but it is what it is - it's talk... You ask any player, honestly, if trash talk's gonna affect how hard they play, because if a little trash talk affects how hard they can play, it just lets us know that they were holding back or weren't playing harder or as hard as they could.
I really want to do everything I can to try to win a game or win on a play. You get fiery; you get chippy out there, but a lot of respect, I never have anybody, like, talk trash in my career in the league, or I don't talk trash. I think guys respect the fact that I'm coming.
Trash talk is not my thing. I believe I have other weapons to make a fight get booked.
The new trend in MMA is to talk trash and curse to get a fight, but I'll never change who I am.
My dad is the way he is. He likes to talk. It's really a perfect team, because I'm not really a trash-talk kind of person. I can if I want, but I feel like I don't have to because I know I can fight.
Draymond's always talking trash, and he's really good at getting you off your game. He's one of the guys that he'll talk trash, even when you're playing golf. He will knock you off your game... But when you see his swing, you're like, 'How do you talk trash so well, and your swing's this bad?'
I never trash talk, I don't like to trash talk. I like to be friends with all the other boxers.
Me and Kobe are always going to talk trash and get into it. But when he talks trash to everybody else, some people tend to shy away.
I want the whole world to watch me fight. But you know if people are just tuning in to hear me trash talk are not fight fans.
Talking makes the fight bigger... When the fight is over, everyone goes in opposite sides with money in the pocket. You have to talk trash because that brings money.
Trash talk? Smack talk? This is an American term that makes me laugh. I simply speak the truth. I'm an Irish man.
I'm not one to trash talk my opponents. If the talk is on, then let's go, I'll say the truth - nothing more or less. But it doesn't affect me in my competition.
You can talk about things indirectly, but if you want to talk how people really talk, you have to talk R-rated. I mean I've got three incredibly intelligent daughters, but when you get mad, you get mad and you talk like people talk. When a normal 17-year-old girl storms out of the house or 15-year-old boy is mad at his mom or dad, they're not talking the way people talk on TV. Unless it's cable.
We have to talk a little trash to sell fights, talk more, because we know we will profit more from that. It's important.
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