Shaun Livingston

“I'm not necessarily a 'rah rah' guy. I'm not the guy speaking out with everybody watching.”

“The advice I would've given my younger self is, 'Be patient; just hold on.'”

“The Bay Area for me has provided the most stability and it's definitely provided life-changing opportunities for myself, for my family, so I'm incredibly grateful for all that's gone on these past five years.”

“The knee was all deformed, bloodied up and leaking with puss. I just couldn't move it. Stiff. It was like I had a spare leg. All of my quad was skinny. It was like a pole with a pineapple in the middle of it.”

“Regardless of what anyone says, I know how hard I worked.”

“I always thought I would have a good feel in the basketball office.”

“I'm a believer in God, I'm a believer that he puts us where he wants us to be.”

“I watch and learn from old Clipper games.”

“There's no way I can go back and uninjure myself.”

“Just the passion to play the game is what kept me going.”

“When I was entering high school, my dad had me going around to different high schools, playing open gyms. A lot of coaches thought I was coming to their schools. If I would have done it over, I would have just stayed at one particular school just to play pickup basketball in the summertime.”

“Being 6'7' as a point guard and playing with Sam Cassell and Cuttino Mobley on the Clippers really helped refine my post game and play with my back to the basket.”

“When I got into the league, guys didn't expect me to be as quick and fast as I was. I think it was myself holding myself back.”

“I thought about possibly being in the front office, being on the management side of things like a GM one day.”

“Being in this game nine years or whatever, you understand things happen. You can only control what you control, and that's on the court. You can't make front-office decisions and other stuff. You've just got to come out and do your job. You try to do it to the best of your ability.”

“The playoffs are like nothing else. The intensity is off the meat rack and I'm looking forward to going back.”

“I can not express more the importance of treating your teammates, opponents and coaches with the utmost respect.”

“I was struggling, and I was struggling mentally more than anything, and that will carry over to the games.”

“The better I feel about my body, the better I feel about my game.”

“There are times in the game when you have lapses. It just means you're not as locked in as when you first get in or at the end of the game.”