100 Quotes by Austin Rivers

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.

When I came here to L.A., I can't give enough credit to the coaches and the players I play with.

It seems that once I stepped foot in L.A., I saw an opportunity and took it, and haven't looked back.

I grew up in Orlando.

I played on the same AAU team with Brandon Knight.

My dad would never, ever play me over somebody because I'm his son. If I'm not playing well, I'm sitting on the bench.

I trust my hard work, so why wouldn't I be confident?

Like, I'm not enjoying LeBron's greatness right now. I mean, I have no fun playing against him. So you don't get to enjoy it until you look back.

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.