Fred VanVleet

“There's always room to grow.”

“I'll continue to work on my body and find different ways to be creative to be better and be more healthy and be strong and be more fit.”

“I'm just about wins and losses, and as long as we're on the right track and improving - each game, each day, each week - and we're winning more than we're losing, I feel like I'm in a good spot.”

“Me being a focal point of the team's scouting report, I'm not surprising people anymore. Unless they're just stupid and don't do their homework, you know what I mean? I gotta get used to that and make my adjustments.”

“That feeling of winning a championship, it trumps anything I've ever done in my life, in my career. Besides my kids, that's right up there, as far as personal journeys and accomplishments that you can make.”

“The kids that cheer me on every day on the court needed to know that I'm cheering for them too.”

“I've been one my whole life. With my family I'm a leader; in sports. I'm not perfect but it's just something that's been natural to me since I was a little boy.”

“I mean, I was one of the best college players in my four years.”

“It's important to provide opportunities to those who opportunity usually ignores, or works against, or excludes.”

“Obviously, I'm a basketball player, I grew up going to basketball camps, so any chance I have to go in and be present and be there for the kids, to see and talk to and play with and against, I do it.”

“I could've taken shortcuts and taken the easy way, but you know, even when I get knocked down and things don't go my way, it works out in the long run.”

“I think it's just defence wins championships is the phrase and that's not just borne out of randomness. There's something to that.”

“I have to be able to want more and still be hungry for more. And winning a championship doesn't stop that.”

“Going to a game is supposed to be the best part of your day and sometimes you have that part taken away from you.”

“Nothing was given to me. That's what I take pride in.”

“With the 3-point shot being where it is, I'm not sure my career would look the same if I wasn't allowed to take the 3s that I'm allowed to take and work on my game that way, to be able to expand my game.”

“I got to find ways to get better so at least I can say I've done everything that I possibly could.”

“Some people joked that I was 'The Chosen One.' But I never acted like I was bigger than anybody. I showed love to everyone and they showed love right back.”

“I found that Toronto has a lot of my similar mindset, which is the underdog mentality and just feeling like you have a chip on your shoulder all the time, feeling eager to prove yourself.”

“The goal is to win a championship every year. I'm certainly not going to lower my standards. I don't care who's on the team.”