Quotes from Avery Bradley

I would hope no one would be satisfied with a loss.

I'm just ready to do whatever my team needs me to do. I'm just going to be prepared and ready to go out there and do my role, and do whatever my team needs me to do to win games.

You can never take your foot off the gas pedal. You have to play the right way at both ends.

There's a lot of guys that I obviously admire. The Gary Paytons, me growing up in Seattle being able to watch him play. Even my peers now, the Patrick Beverleys and the Kawhi Leonards, I admire those guys.

I'm trying to lead by example. But I'm definitely challenging myself to be a better player, the player I want to be.

Boston was a good situation for me, but I think it was over time they were able to understand what they had.

It's nice to be back in front of the fans and being in Boston.

In the NBA, we're a brotherhood and we should all want to see one another succeed.

From playing with the guys that I played with, Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce, I learned a lot about the game. I learned how to finish games.

I'm pretty sure every team in the NBA would love to have Paul Pierce on their team.

When I have basketball camps and I tell kids my story, they're like, 'You played in Maine? In Israel? You did this and that?' I experienced a lot, and I feel like it made me not only the person I am today, but the basketball player I am.

I've always been a player who played with a chip on my shoulder.

The actual act of sitting out doesn't directly fight systemic racism. But it does highlight the reality that without black athletes, the NBA wouldn't be what it is today. The league has a responsibility to our communities in helping to empower us - just as we have made the NBA brand strong.

The most important thing with me is consistency.

It's different, but I prefer my people on the East Coast. Some people might be offended by that, but I mean, especially knowing I'm from the West Coast. I don't know if it's because it's home for me or what, but I just feel like people are real good friends. That's all it is.

There's no bigger stage than this, so each and every night, every opportunity I get, I'm gonna try to prove and show the world that I'm the best perimeter defender in the NBA.

If you ask somebody who played basketball against me in the first grade and you watch a tape, it's been with me since I was a kid. I've always had this mentality to go out there and defend.

I played with Tristan Thompson and Cory Joseph. They were my high school teammates.

As committed to my Lakers teammates and the organization as I am, I ultimately play basketball for my family.

I think the thing that helps you get to the next level is being able to affect the game in different ways. And that's me getting my teammates shots instead of me just coming off pin-downs.

It makes me happy knowing my teammates are always going to have my back defensively, and I'm always going to have theirs.

Growing up I was a different person than I am now. Now I'm the quiet, laid-back one, but I used to be the wild one in the group. I was like the bully.

The only thing I wanted to change in the past was being a little bit more disciplined on the defensive end.

I got in a lot of fights growing up, and not just basketball fights.