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There's a lot of talented guys, but there's not a lot of guys that play the game that right way.
That's what I'm a big believer in, giving everyone touches and energy on both ends of the floor.
I can do the little things, play defense, dive on the floor to get loose balls, things like that.
When I had older guys around me, I kind of leaned on them for advice and went through tough times.
I was always about the team, regardless of our relationship wasn't working out or didn't work out.
Can't pick and choose when you're gonna be a leader. If you're gonna be it - gotta do it every day.
I came into the league traded. So I'm not the only person that goes through trade rumors each year.
I don't feel like we have to be dirty or anything crazy, but as far as competing, there's no limits.
Getting a tear in my ACL in 2012 puts a lot of things in perspective about being able to play the game.
I think I stand up more often than I should on defense. I've got to be solid and continue to get better.
I don't know, you go through what you go through. You handle adversity, and I think it made me hungrier.
I thought at first I was going to be an NFL quarterback. I played until I was a freshman in high school.
I try to watch film with teammates and help them as well, so that's just part of the game, part of playing.
Every team I've played on has players-only meetings, players staff meetings, so this is part of the process.
With the ball in your hands as the point guard, you want to be able to control the game and take care of it.
I eat at certain times. I got to leave the house at certain times. I shower at certain times before the game.
I might be out of the league if I didn't have a guy like K.G. to show me the ropes and a coach like Doc Rivers.
The point guard is always the leader on the floor, regardless: the extension out there on the floor for the coach.
When everyone touches the ball, it gives everyone energy, and that translates to the defensive end, where it all starts.
You can't let emotions get involved with what the common goal is: to win. At the end of the day, that's what it's all about.
In Boston, the year we won the championship, guys were so much different in age. You don't have the same lives off the court.
When you're off the court, that's when it's time to talk or whatever you want to do. But once it goes up, it's time to compete.
Everyone wants to believe Chris Paul is a good guy. They don't know he's a horrible teammate. They don't know how he treats people.
I just try to keep rebounding the ball as much as I can. I just go out there and do what needs to be done and don't worry about my stats.
The fans treated me with a lot of respect, and I played as hard as possible every night. I wanted to win. I'm going to always be a competitor.
I feel like, when I get a certain amount of minutes, and when the coaches allow me to be me on the court, I'm Rondo. There's no 'Playoff Rondo.'
Playing for the Bulls, playing for big organizations, like Boston, you're going to be judged from Day One. It's part of it. You signed up for it.
I don't just want to make the playoffs or get to the first or second round. When I compete or make it to the playoffs, I expect to win every time.
We just played unselfishly. At times this year, we've played selfish, but today we passed the ball. ... We were just very supportive of each other.
First of all, I'm misunderstood in general. I don't mind because I'm very quiet, and I stay to myself. People are going to say what they want to say.
We're looking forward to the tournament. We still believe that if we play with effort, we can beat anyone. We just can't have those 2-3-minute lapses.
I always get up for every game, but this game is especially big. It's a do-or-die thing. This could be (decide) whoever wins the regular-season championship.
Talk is cheap, but when you go out there and prove it - you're the first one to show up for practice, and you're the last to leave - that's how you lead by example.
I haven't even been thinking about it really. I'm just going to talk to coach. We will have a team meeting when we go back and (I'm) just (going to) focus on school.
I feel like nobody can stop me off the dribble. At crunch time, we're looking for somebody to score and I definitely want to be the guy who has the ball in his hands.
One-on-one is different than actually going through picks, hitting the floor, playing 5-on-5, getting back in transition, making quick moves without thinking about it.
They talked about teamwork. That's all it is. It's about team effort. No particular player trying to outshine each other. Playing unselfishly and believe. Good things will come.
I always try to push myself, even more now because evidently I'm not doing something right. I'm trying to do the little things that count in practice to try and get my job back.
This is the Boston Celtics. This isn't the Phoenix Suns. No disrespect to any other organization, but you don't hang conference titles. Do we hang going to the conference finals?
I don't try to come in and act like I know it all, and that's why I put the extra work in of watching film, getting an understanding of what you want from personnel, each player.
Always people have counted me out since I got in the league. It never made me any difference. I kept myself around positive people, got a great support system and just kept at it.
I can't remember one bad time I had in Boston as far as where I got negative feedback from fans, no matter the first year we lost 18 straight or the following year we won a championship.
There is no place on or off the court for language that disrespects anyone's sexual orientation. That is not who I am or what I believe, and I will strive every day to be a better person.
When we're able to get stops, get the ball off the glass and run, you never know who's going to get the ball. Everyone takes off, runs to their spots, and the ball just finds the open man.
If given an opportunity, knowing I'll play 36 minutes a night, I can perform at a high level. Spotty or inconsistent minutes, which have been the case in the past, then the numbers fluctuate.
When the coach can get the trust and the confidence of a team to believe in him, and everyone accepts what they're doing for the team, the good and the great of the team, it usually works out.
I'm a point guard, so I want to see everybody else score and be happy. I don't necessarily need to score at all. I could be happy with zero points as long as it was a team game and everybody contributed.
We have to be mentally prepared for every team we play. If we play a team who has a big name on their chests, then we are going to come out ready. But if we play a team who doesn't have a big name or a star player, we have a hard time coming out ready.
I could play through anything. But just thinking about I have kids, longevity, I probably would have made more of a conscious effort not to hit the floor, but at the end of the day in the playoffs, you can't play that way. You just have to play and give it your all.
As I grew up, I played in sandals. I played in flip-flops all the time back in the day. That's why I didn't really care about spraining my ankles. When I first started in the NBA, I loved low-cuts. I can play (in them), because I used to grow up playing in flip-flops all the time.