Quotes from Patrick Beverley

The city of Houston's been great to me.

I come from very humble beginnings.

I am from the West Side of Chicago. I have been looking over my shoulder my whole life. I am not worried about a death threat.

You know me, I'm not big into the numbers. I just like to go out there and have fun and have a ton of energy.

First and foremost, you never want to see anyone get injured.

I feel like I can play with any team. Whatever team that is, I feel like I can make an instant impact.

I can't turn my aggression off and I can't turn it on; it's just instilled in me and that's how I play.

If I didn't get paid to play this game, I'd still play it the exact same way, with as much intensity and as much focus as I play it with now.

I call a spade a spade. If you're doing things the wrong way, I'm going to let you know regardless if you're the max-contract guy on the team or the two-way guy on the team.

The biggest thing for me when I got to L.A. was everybody wrote us off to make the playoffs. That was one of my goals. Put that on my mirror. We did it as a team. And that's my thing: Wherever I go, I'm going to win.

I'm more of a go-out-there-and-get-it-done-by-any-means type of guy that don't care what name is on the back of the jersey or what name is on the front of the jersey.

I played for Miami, with LeBron. They cut me. I got drafted by the Lakers, they traded me to Miami. Bron got there, they cut me. I remember it like it was yesterday. So yeah, it's a chip on my shoulder.

Coming from the projects, we used to sneak into the United Center, watch some games; they chased us out and everything.

Things are not going to be easy, things are not going to be fair. Just do your best.

Coming from where I come from, I didn't have the luxury of having a trust fund. Or money from generations. Or the luxury of hoppin' into the family business, you know?

We understand that you can't play all 82, trust me, with injuries and all that. But if you're feeling OK - a lot of people have been banged up, but if you're feeling OK, then you should play. That's what you get paid for. That's what fans deserve. The fans definitely deserve that.

I have the mindset of a coach. I have to think, what would a coach think? How would a coach feel if I'm playing a guy a certain way?

Faith and hard work have been my mirror.

No matter how much I make or what I get, I still think that I gotta go out there and prove something. That's going to be my mentality and that's my motivation.

I love playing against my friend D-Rose.

Don't talk to me about getting comfortable. It makes me uncomfortable.

If that's my job to lead and if that's my job to go out there and play defense, take charges, dive into the stands, then that's what I'm going to do if that's what it takes to win basketball games.

I'll never forget where I come from. Especially my humble beginnings.

The Lakers, obviously, that's L.A.'s team. The Clippers and Clippers fans are put on the backburner a little bit and can go unnoticed due to the championships, due to the people who played there.