Quotes from Patrick Beverley

You get rid of the mistakes by playing hard.

You don't ever salute losing - ever.

Basketball players want to be comfortable, they want to be lackadaisical, they want to make the right passes and take the right shots.

I just want to shine a light on the city of Chicago.

I don't want personal battles that take away from the team. I'm trying to win games.

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'm not physically intimidated by anyone unless the Man Above comes and walks into my face.

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.

When you're in L.A., you have a different platform than playing anywhere else. Brighter lights. Bigger media.

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 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.

I'm not physically intimidated by anyone on this earth.

Chicago is everything to me.

I just go out there and play basketball. I play basketball the way I'd play if I was at the park. There's no motives with me. I'm all for the team, and that's how I play.

When you're playing a good team, not too many point guards want to go one on one. When you're playing a not-so-good team, teams that are fighting to make the playoffs, guys are going to want to try and get their own. It's just a different read of each team.

I feel like any team I'm on, I can help take that team to the playoffs.

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.

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 can't name a backup point guard better than me in the NBA.

Being a point guard in this league, you have to balance out people - the emotions and stuff like that.

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 am the coolest dad in the world.

I put myself in debt to get to the NBA.

I get booed everywhere I go. If that can take that off my teammates, that's good. Everyone else can just be calm.