Marcus Smart

“I want to work for what I have. If feel if you work for what you have instead of it being just given to you, people respect you a lot more because you understand what it takes, you've been there and done it. No one can just say it was easy because you took it. You didn't just get it. You took it.”

“As a competitor, you're always taught that you want win championships. You want to put yourself in the best place to do that.”

“I want to hear good things. I don't want to hear any negative things about me. It makes me look bad. It makes me feel bad. It makes my family look bad.”

“To be honest, I'm worth more than 12-14 million. Just for the things I do on the court that don't show up on the stat sheet. You don't find guys like that.”

“We can't change the past. We can only get ready for the future.”

“I'm the youngest of four boys, and my oldest brother, Todd, was like a father figure to me. We were very close even though we were 23 years apart. When my parents were working, he was the one there for me. He was diagnosed with lung cancer when he was 15 years old.”

“On that court, ain't no such thing as friends and smiling and everything like that.”

“As a kid back home in Texas, I was followed by sales associates in stores and called derogatory names more times than I can count.”

“What would I do if I were being guarded by Marcus Smart? There's not much you can do!”

“I know how important I am to my team, my teammates. They tell me every day.”

“My rookie year, I bought a new Range Rover, and, knowing what I know about traffic stops in this country, I made damn sure that the tint on the windows was legal. Somehow, though... I just kept getting pulled over for my tint.”

“How many guards are doing what I'm doing guarding 1 through 5? How many bigs are guarding 1s the way I'm guarding 5s?”

“There are a lot of things that make Kyrie's game unstoppable. But his ability to ad-lib and come up with things on the fly is special.”

“You've got to want to play defence. Nobody really wants to play defence. It's boring. It sucks. You don't get the flashiness, the scores, the dunks. But you've got to have it.”

“With the years I've had with U.S.A. Basketball, my loyalty, their loyalty to me with always asking me to come back, that's incredible.”

“I just don't want to give anybody a reason to label me as something I'm not.”

“Just make sure that you know what's going on with your money and you know where you money is coming from and how much is coming out and going in.”

“I think any player would tell you when you've got a coach that believes in you and you don't have to be looking over your shoulder after every play you do, and you can just go out and play, that's the coach you want to have on your team.”

“I never had a spring break. I've always been on the road. I've always been traveling.”