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We gotta play hard and leave it all out there. Dive for lose balls, take charges, just do whatever it takes to win the game.
I personally want to be in Toronto.
I had to grow up, but I think I’ve grown up a lot. I think I’m handling myself well.
I’ll never be satisfied with where my game is. I always think I can get better.
My rookie year, we used to play all the time, literally play ‘Call of Duty’ all the time, because it was like all of the younger guys on the team would get into the communication with the headsets and talking trash.
Game 7 is what you play for. It’s what you work for.
The advantage of playing in Toronto is not playing for one city, you’re playing for a country.
I believe that every single game in the Playoffs, round 1 to Eastern Conference Finals, every single game is a different game.
It’s about being a better player today than you were yesterday.
We have to let our defense dictate our offense.
Bringing a championship to the city of Toronto and the country of Canada has been one the best things I’ve done so far in my career, and I’ll push for that goal every single year I play this game.
I do play with a chip on my shoulder. That’s who I am. That’s how Philadelphia basketball players are raised.
If you go to a team that’s fighting for a playoff spot, you just want to fit in. That’s all you want to do. Go in with an open mind and let yourself take it in.
I think everyone is just expanding, with the centers shooting 3s. I think that just opens the floor up a lot more. A lot more shots are going up, a lot more freedom of movement. It makes it more of an exciting game.
It’s cool to make the playoffs. It’s not cool to lose in the first round anymore. The goal is to make the Finals.
I think the one thing about Kawhi is he literally stays level-headed all the time, he never gives up, he never gets down.
Whatever I need to do, I’m doing it for my team.
I don’t want to be a guy that’s just out there to be out there; I want to play and contribute.
I want to make sure my family is happy.
We understand it’s a 48 -minute game and for us it’s always win or go home and that’s what we do.
My job is, as a player, to go out here and do my job.
It’s like ‘Pay It Forward.’ Everyone has seen that movie. If someone teaches you something that helps you in your life, why not pass it along and help the next person?
I didn’t play in indoor gyms until I was 12… Hitting the floor on concrete – it ain’t easy bouncing up from that. It makes you tougher.
I want to support the communities that support me.
If you from Philly, you ain’t a Villanova guy. Villanova is the suburbs. That’s all you know about Villanova.
Everything I do is criticized, scrutinized, sometimes praised. Everything is always looked at like hey what’s next. It’s made me grow a much thicker skin.
When I give back to the community I don’t do it for anything except because I want to give back to the community.
You’re not just playing for one city in Toronto, you’re playing for Vancouver, Montreal, Edmonton.
The regular season doesn’t matter.
I love being an All-Star and continue to want to be an All-Star because that just shows you my talent and who I am. But I’ve always been a team player.
I have never been a recruiter. It won’t ever happen.
I’m a wuss. I’m a pushover and a wuss. But it’s worth it. And that’s the joy of being an NBA player. Because I can go out on the court and be an animal, be a beast. I ain’t a pushover. But when I go home when I’m with my family, my friends and my wife and my child, I’m just Dad and a husband.
When I see a play one time, I’ve got it. When I see it twice, I master it. When I see it three times, I know where the loopholes are.
I understand that every day I have to be a leader on and off the court.
My family, my wife, my kids – they love me no matter what is going on.
Free agency is free agency. I love when NBA players get paid.
I understood even in college, when you win as a team, everyone gets their own accolades, individual accolades.
It’s always special to be an All-Star.
I want a ring. That’s all that drives me. I want to just get better, I want to have fun, I want to win a ring.
Canadians are all over the world. When they get a chance to support their team and show up, they’ve been doing it.
I believe I had an unfair reputation. If people think I was a bad kid, I was a bad kid to them. But people close to me know I’m not.
My kids know who I am on the basketball court, but at the end of the day, it doesn’t matter about the basketball. I am their dad, and that is all that matters.
I would be a very demanding coach. I wouldn’t yell and scream, but I want players that want what I want. And that’s why I couldn’t coach, ’cause I know how hard it is and I know how hard I want you to play. But everyone’s not going to do what I want.
In this world, and all the things we have going on, we’re all human beings.