Quotes from Austin Rivers

My father's a very private person. I mean a very private person. His life outside of basketball, he doesn't really share it with anybody.

I was the 10th pick, people were thinking could be an All-Star, but I turned out to be a pretty damn good pro.

I don't want people thinking I say disrespectful things to people.

I have to do so much to distinguish myself.

You have a kid and realize what's really important. It actually takes pressure off everything. Nothing will come before fatherhood for me, ever in my life.

My dad's the type of guy when I was 5 years old, we played checkers and he would not let me win. That's just how he is. He's not doing any favors for me.

That's what drove me crazy is people would say - even people who would try to be nice would be like, it's not different than when a dad hires his son at a law firm. I said, it's not the same thing. You can't be given an NBA job. I got drafted.

I was the No. 1 player in high school. I was a lottery player at Duke. I was player of the year in the ACC as a freshman. People just forget about these things, like I don't deserve to be in the league.

I have really good lateral movement. I've always had quick lateral movement.

Golden Oreo cookies. I've got 10 boxes of them in my room. I am obsessed with them. But I burn them right off in practice.

It seemed like my dad was always a thousand miles away, coaching.

I always watch guys and take a lot of little stuff. I've taken a lot of hesitation stuff from Steph Curry. I think he's the best at that.

If you go two years without playing with confidence, when your whole life, you've been extremely confident and a hard worker... I got punched in the mouth, and it took me a while to adjust. I kind of had my confidence - I don't want to say taken away, because no one should ever be able to take your confidence away.

When Houston called, I was like, 'I think this could be a great fit.'

You can't play worrying about, like, what will other people say about me. That's not how I've ever approached the game.

I've put everything in my rearview mirror and I've continued to silence people. That's how I'm going to... continue to be happy living my life. And in the process, I silence haters.

I get picked on by my older brother and sister, and I get yelled at for picking on my little brother and for not cleaning my room.

Trash talk can get confused with fight talk.

I keep all my trash talk to basketball. I don't ever go after anybody.

I feel like I always have to smell good.

I'd sneak out and work on my game at midnight. The neighbors would call and say, turn the lights off. I went from the worst player to the first guy off the bench to the best player on my ninth-grade team, and then it took off.

Judge me all you want as a player. Some people think I'm a great player, some people don't. That's fine. Numbers don't ever lie.

I'm just kind of private just because I grew up always with a camera in my face because of my father, and I was highly touted and ranked in high school. So I just like to be kind of low-key off the court.

People always talk about 'Oh, it's so nice that you give back.' It just kind of becomes words. When you see it, when you actually put it together and you see the amount of impact you have on a kid, they're going to remember this for the rest of their life.