DeMar DeRozan

“It's one of them things that no matter how indestructible we look like we are, we're all human at the end of the day. We all got feelings... all of that.”

“I didn't want to be regular. I didn't want to be this type of player, how everybody else play. I always try to learn and just be better so I could be different, y'know, instead of being content like a lot of people I've seen were.”

“A lot of people in the NBA don't even take the game serious or take the same approach that I do.”

“I took pride in everything when it came to Canada. Not even just Toronto, everything that came with Canada, wearing that Toronto Raptors jersey.”

“I'm so quiet if you don't know me.”

“I don't care who you are. You can be the smallest person off the street, or you could be the biggest person in the world. I'm going to treat everybody the same - with respect.”

“I played against Kobe a lot when I was in high school during the summers, even in college, just being that guy in L.A. coming up. He always gave me advice here and there, and even the smallest things stuck with me. I watched every single thing that Kobe did, every game, every move. He made me a student of the game.”

“I am Toronto. Outside of where I'm from, I represent this city harder than anybody.”

“If you work for it, you'll deserve what comes. Hard work.”

“I came up different; I took a different route. I want to lead my own path.”

“I never force nothing in my game. I let everything come whenever it needed to come. That's the beauty of it.”

“Day 1, when I was drafted to the Toronto Raptors, they had this stigma on them: Every guy leaves. Nobody wants to be here. Superstars, nobody wants to play in Canada. From Day 1, my whole mindset and approach to the game, being in Toronto, was I wanted to change that whole narrative to that whole organization.”