Quotes from Shaun Livingston

Eleven years in the league, I haven't had a dirty play. I haven't made a name in this league by playing that way.

I got a temper. But part of my role is to steady the ship. That's just to try to control your emotions.

I think I can help push the tempo just a little bit... I feel I can get the ball after a rebound. Push the fastbreak. Push the tempo. Get guys some easy shots.

I play to win. If I have great numbers, that's great. Obviously you feel good about it, but still, I'm playing to win.

Once you go through something and come out of the storm, you've been tested.

With my time in the league, what I will be most proud of is the fact that my character, values and faith were tested, and I persevered.

I'm a believer in God, I'm a believer that he puts us where he wants us to be.

I'm just trying to find the fountain of youth. I'm trying to find some drops and sprinkle it in there. I'll find the well.

The hardest thing to do is be a point guard, learn how to be a point guard in the NBA as a young player because you gotta earn your respect first of all the old guys, all the old heads. You gotta command where to go, know the plays.

When I got into the league, guys didn't expect me to be as quick and fast as I was. I think it was myself holding myself back.

I'm going to do everything I'm supposed to do - except roommates. No roommates. I quietly paid for my own room on the road. I didn't want to tell anyone.

The playoffs are like nothing else. The intensity is off the meat rack and I'm looking forward to going back.

But yeah, a lot of people compare me to Magic. The physical appearance, the tall point guard, the ability to pass the ball. But comparisons are one thing, it's up to me to go out and play my game, get those wins, those championships, that's the only way those comparisons can get closer, but he's a legend.

Being in this game nine years or whatever, you understand things happen. You can only control what you control, and that's on the court. You can't make front-office decisions and other stuff. You've just got to come out and do your job. You try to do it to the best of your ability.

I just always had a knack for handling and passing the rock and making things happen.

I've always wanted grandpa to be proud of me, and I want him to see me play in the NBA.

Oh, I never knew I was going to be a great player.

Sure, there were always questions that lingered, the 'What ifs?' You wondered what might have been if not for the injury? What would my career have looked like and turned out to be? But I had to put my head down and put it behind me.

That kind of always been apart of my personality, just mild-mannered, poised, trying to keep my poise. Doesn't always work out that way but I try when I'm on the court to stabilize things.

I'm really into kind of a 'Sixth Sense' type of movie - mysteries, thrillers a little bit.

We all have those friends that tick to their drum, and you don't want them to tick to anybody else's drum.

Being 6'7' as a point guard and playing with Sam Cassell and Cuttino Mobley on the Clippers really helped refine my post game and play with my back to the basket.

If I'm healthy and having fun, then I want to play.

Going through my rehab kind of gave me a great perspective about what my game would be about.