Top 66 Austin Rivers Quotes

I know what the narrative is on me. It’s because I come from money and I have a swagger and confidence about me.

I’m looking forward to a state championship, those are my expectations.

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.

I get picked on by my older brother and sister, and I get yelled at for picking on my little brother and for not cleaning my room.

I feel like I always have to smell good.

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.

I don’t want to just meet LeBron. I want to destroy him on the court one day.

I’ve always been a fan of Patrick Beverley.

I think sometimes adding pressure can be good.

I’m kind of a loner type of dude when it comes to basketball.

Hate equals motivation. Five years ago, I was known as Doc Rivers’s son, and now I’m known as my own person, and that’s through hard work.

I’d sneak out and work on my game at midnight. The neighbors would call and say, turn the lights off. I went from the worst player to the first guy off the bench to the best player on my ninth-grade team, and then it took off.

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.

I have really good lateral movement. I’ve always had quick lateral movement.

New Orleans just wasn’t anything for me. I didn’t fit in. I just couldn’t get adjusted.

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.

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.

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.

Whenever anybody plays their old team, there’s obviously something there.

When Houston called, I was like, ‘I think this could be a great fit.’

One game, one of the kids yelled, ‘The only thing Riverses are good at is coaching.’ I didn’t take offense, I just smiled.

Most teams don’t do anything. Really it’s just take the ball out the basket, pick-and-roll, and run.

Business and basketball are two different things.

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.

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’ve always been a peacemaker.

On any team I’ve played for, I’m going to play good minutes.

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.

I grew up playing against Michael Carter-Williams.

In high school, I used to just catch the ball and do whatever I wanted and score. In college, you can’t do that anymore.

I grew up in Orlando.

You got to get the opportunity and then you’ve got to make the most of it.

I don’t really like to escalate anything.

You can’t strut around in my house, because everybody has their own achievements.

A lot of teams have won one state championship, but not many teams can say they went back-to-back.

I trust my hard work, so why wouldn’t I be confident?

That’s what drove me crazy is people would say – even people who would try to be nice would be like, it’s not different than when a dad hires his son at a law firm. I said, it’s not the same thing. You can’t be given an NBA job. I got drafted.

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 know Chris Paul well. I have a relationship with him.

The easiest thing sometimes is just playing. You don’t have to worry about the plays, this and that, you just play.

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.

When you don’t win, people have to make up a reason.

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 was the 10th pick, people were thinking could be an All-Star, but I turned out to be a pretty damn good pro.

My father’s a very private person. I mean a very private person. His life outside of basketball, he doesn’t really share it with anybody.

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.

My daily watch is Rolex, stainless steel. They’re light, they’re comfortable.

My dad’s the type of guy when I was 5 years old, we played checkers and he would not let me win. That’s just how he is. He’s not doing any favors for me.

It seems that once I stepped foot in L.A., I saw an opportunity and took it, and haven’t looked back.

I don’t understand someone not wanting to play for a city like New York. I just don’t get that.

Just being in the NBA, period, would be great.

I thought I was going to die. Seriously. I had a 24-hour flu and then I had a stomach virus. I couldn’t get out of my bed without going to the bathroom.

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 didn’t focus on trying to be Doc. I just tried to be myself.

I stopped trying to show everybody I could play. I don’t need to show anybody anything. Just go be myself, and if I do that, then I can really show how good of a player I can be.

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.

I’ve earned every stripe that I’ve gotten. I’ve earned every playing time.

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.

I want my son to look at me the way I looked at my pops. That’s what I want from him.

Wherever I go, I’m going to work as hard as I can and do everything I can to help the team immediately.

People always talk about ‘Oh, it’s so nice that you give back.’ It just kind of becomes words. When you see it, when you actually put it together and you see the amount of impact you have on a kid, they’re going to remember this for the rest of their life.

I played on the same AAU team with Brandon Knight.

He was in Boston and I grew up in Orlando. It’s not so much like father-son, it’s coach-player.

At the end of the day, my job is to play and compete and that’s it.

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 don’t want people thinking I say disrespectful things to people.