Quotes from RJ Barrett

I love playing in the Garden. My dad used to tell me stories about playing here. So to see that crowd, it's crazy.

New York, playing in the Garden, I've always been a player who likes to play with a lot of people watching.

If you can do your thing on a big stage, it helps, but then to do it against guys that are older than you still gives me confidence that all the hard work I'm putting in is really working and I just got to keep getting better.

I'd love to go to a Giants game.

I'm mad goofy.

It's the NBA summer league and everyone's out there fighting. It's been a great experience for me.

I feel I expect greatness from myself.

I like to watch the best in every sport, so definitely like Tom Brady or Tiger Woods, his comeback story, or even Usain Bolt. I look up to those guys just because they're great.

I just see the ball and I go for it. It's wanting to make a winning play for the team and get a rebound.

Basketball is fun. It's what I love to do. You got to have fun with it.

If I'm tired, I'm trying to still say hi to a fan or still talk to that person 'cause that one meeting with them can impact how they think of me for the rest of their life.

It's New York City, you want to be shown in Times Square. you want your picture there. You want those kind of things. To inspire people, that's really what it's about.

I'm not gonna lie, I'm a huge Patriots fan, so I like Tom Brady.

I'm so overwhelmed, humbled and just honored the Knicks took the chance with me.

I call New York just a bigger version of Toronto.

Bernard King said something great about me? Wow, he's one of the best. I'm definitely honored and very thankful.

For me, I'm more reserved and focused once I get to the game.

What I always say is, 'To each his own.' Everybody has a different trajectory or path in life.

I used to come home crying at the beginning, 'cause I was playing against high-school guys, college guys, and I was like in the sixth grade, so it was tough.

I was really good at a young age, but every day I had to walk in the house, and walk past my dad's jersey framed on the wall because he was an Olympian, so I was like, all right, I haven't done anything yet.

I feel like the Knicks drafted me because they knew what I could do.

My late grandfather, rest in peace, he was the biggest Knicks fan and he always told me I'd play for the Knicks, so it would mean a lot for me to play for the team.

I'm not soft at all.

Not really anything wrong with Memphis. New York is just more where I wanted to be.