Austin Rivers

“I want my son to look at me the way I looked at my pops. That's what I want from him.”

“I'm kind of a loner type of dude when it comes to basketball.”

“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.”

“Just being in the NBA, period, would be great.”

“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.”

“I know Chris Paul well. I have a relationship with him.”

“When you don't win, people have to make up a reason.”

“The coaches at Duke really helped me get better.”

“New Orleans just wasn't anything for me. I didn't fit in. I just couldn't get adjusted.”

“Hate equals motivation. Five years ago, I was known as Doc Rivers's son, and now I'm known as my own person, and that's through hard work.”

“I've always been a peacemaker.”

“Trash talk can get confused with fight talk.”

“I grew up, I used to two-ball dribble, one-ball dribble like three or four times a week for like an hour all the way up until I got into the league where I felt like I now have it in my head.”

“I know what the narrative is on me. It's because I come from money and I have a swagger and confidence about me.”

“I didn't focus on trying to be Doc. I just tried to be myself.”

“I stopped trying to show everybody I could play. I don't need to show anybody anything. Just go be myself, and if I do that, then I can really show how good of a player I can be.”

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

“He and I don't know each other like that. We know each other as strictly basketball. A lot of people on the outside don't understand that because people think we have a relationship like every other father and son. We just don't. That's because he's been gone my whole life, and that's fine.”

“I've earned every stripe that I've gotten. I've earned every playing time.”

“It's been a long journey. Continued to work through my rookie year. I was hurt a lot. Up and down.”