Matt Barnes

“You're never prepared to lose anybody in your family.”

“I'm listening to 2Pac the whole time. While I'm getting treatment, while I'm stretching, I'm listening to music.”

“I love to be physical.”

“Having kids, any time you can help kids, it's something that's close to my heart.”

“I hated Mo Cheeks.”

“I was a good shooter in college, but it's a different level here in the NBA and I'm working on getting better.”

“In the NBA you better come to play every night, where in the NBDL the talent level just isn't there and maybe you have guys taking a night off.”

“My mom was my rock, my confidant and my best friend. She was an elementary school teacher who worked with students with disabilities and she lived every day giving back to her family and her community.”

“We call media out that hasn't played and have crazy opinions.”

“The NBA never wanted to use me to market their work even though I have a huge following and lots of fans. I was the bad guy to them.”

“I grew up in the '80s in an era that was tough. The Pistons, Celtics, Knicks, Charles Oakley, Anthony Mason. It wasn't dirty. It was just men playing basketball.”

“My kids' happiness kind of outweighs everything. Just seeing the smiles on their faces and the anticipation leading up to Christmas is what I love now, having kids of my own.”

“I really feel blessed to be in a position I am, to even have an opportunity to play in the league.”

“It comes with experience and learning and knowing the game. It's not necessarily about sticking your chest out and saying, 'I'm tough.'”

“I like being the hated one.”

“I just think that my road has been so difficult to get where I'm at that I don't take anything for granted.”

“You only get one mom.”

“I've had to fight every year. That's kept me hungry.”

“If you take the chance to get to know me off the court, you'll see that I'm not the bad guy that everybody wants me to be on the court.”

“Refs need to get over themselves.”