Quotes by Austin Rivers - Page 2

I had to go through the same things that anyone's son went through. And you know, there aren't that many guys whose dads played who got to the league.
Austin Rivers /
Dads
Same Things
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I thought I was going to die. Seriously. I had a 24-hour flu and then I had a stomach virus. I couldn't get out of my bed without going to the bathroom.
Austin Rivers /
Bathroom
Flu
Stomach
Virus
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He's a great father - I don't view him as a coach. He gives me advice as a person and as a basketball player, and I've learned a lot from him and my mom.
Austin Rivers /
Basketball Player
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My dad's the type of guy when I was 5 years old, we played checkers and he would not let me win. That's just how he is. He's not doing any favors for me.
Austin Rivers /
Checkers
Favors
Dad Me Doing
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You have a kid and realize what's really important. It actually takes pressure off everything. Nothing will come before fatherhood for me, ever in my life.
Austin Rivers /
Fatherhood
Life Me My Life
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I do like watches. I like the sophistication of it all. Like the whole thing behind collecting watches is very grown man-esque, so it makes me feel more an adult.
Austin Rivers /
Collecting
Sophistication
Watches
Me Feel More
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How would you deal with it if you're 9 years old, people are telling you, 'You suck,' and they don't give sympathy? They don't feel bad for you because of who your dad is.
Austin Rivers /
Sympathy
Old People
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I really wanted to give back to the youth - especially abused or underprivileged kids. Just hearing their stories breaks your heart. So that's who I wanted to give back to.
Austin Rivers /
Underprivileged
Breaks
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It's easy to go somewhere where everything already is set up and they've been to the playoffs four, five years in a row. I've been on those teams. Those are great experiences.
Austin Rivers /
Playoffs
Row
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I've put everything in my rearview mirror and I've continued to silence people. That's how I'm going to... continue to be happy living my life. And in the process, I silence haters.
Austin Rivers /
Rearview Mirror
Silence
Haters
Rearview
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I grew up, I used to two-ball dribble, one-ball dribble like three or four times a week for like an hour all the way up until I got into the league where I felt like I now have it in my head.
Austin Rivers /
Dribble
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I was the No. 1 player in high school. I was a lottery player at Duke. I was player of the year in the ACC as a freshman. People just forget about these things, like I don't deserve to be in the league.
Austin Rivers /
Freshman
Lottery
Duke
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I'm just kind of private just because I grew up always with a camera in my face because of my father, and I was highly touted and ranked in high school. So I just like to be kind of low-key off the court.
Austin Rivers /
Be Kind
Low Key
Just Kind
Ranked
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The thing is, I don't hate North Carolina. I know we're rivals now, but I almost went there. For me it was UNC or Duke. So I love that school. And at the end of the day, the rivalry stuff, that's just fun.
Austin Rivers /
Carolina
North Carolina
Rivalry
Love Hate Me
Duke
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When your move with your left hand can be just as potent as your right hand, I think that's pretty special. I think that's why Kyrie's the best, because he finishes so well around the rim with his left or right.
Austin Rivers /
Best Your Right
Finishes
Potent
Right Hand
Rim
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I'd sneak out and work on my game at midnight. The neighbors would call and say, turn the lights off. I went from the worst player to the first guy off the bench to the best player on my ninth-grade team, and then it took off.
Austin Rivers /
Midnight
Sneak
Best Work Game
Bench
Lights
Neighbors
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That's what drove me crazy is people would say - even people who would try to be nice would be like, it's not different than when a dad hires his son at a law firm. I said, it's not the same thing. You can't be given an NBA job. I got drafted.
Austin Rivers /
Firm
Be Nice
Drafted
Drove
Law Firm
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People always talk about 'Oh, it's so nice that you give back.' It just kind of becomes words. When you see it, when you actually put it together and you see the amount of impact you have on a kid, they're going to remember this for the rest of their life.
Austin Rivers /
Just Kind
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We're caught in an era where everyone likes riding a wave. People want to go to places that are already on the rise and going to franchises that are already doing really well. And people have lost interest in going somewhere and making something great again.
Austin Rivers /
Riding
Wave
Great Lost People
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I cross somebody once a game. Now whether you make an elite shot or whatever determines if it's a highlight, but I cross someone once a game, James Harden crosses someone four or five times a game. When you're guarding guys, you have to understand it's going to happen.
Austin Rivers /
Guarding
Cross
Determines
Elite
Harden
Highlight
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He and I don't know each other like that. We know each other as strictly basketball. A lot of people on the outside don't understand that because people think we have a relationship like every other father and son. We just don't. That's because he's been gone my whole life, and that's fine.
Austin Rivers /
Father And Son
Life Relationship Father
Strictly
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If you go two years without playing with confidence, when your whole life, you've been extremely confident and a hard worker... I got punched in the mouth, and it took me a while to adjust. I kind of had my confidence - I don't want to say taken away, because no one should ever be able to take your confidence away.
Austin Rivers /
Hard Worker
Life Your Me
Adjust
Life Me Confidence
Worker
Mouth
Punched
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