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Contact is in my nature.
I have a great body for the NBA.
I think my play speaks for itself.
My actions speak harder than words.
I love Boston, and Boston loves me.
I hate losing more than I love winning.
I've never backed down from a challenge.
I want to win games, win a championship.
I feel like Boston is a second home for me.
Being on the court is a great thing for me.
Outside of basketball, I really love to bowl.
I feel like I'm a part of the Boston community.
Thank God I had both parents and older brothers.
Playoffs, you know, defense is elevated even more.
I want to earn it, I don't want anything given to me.
I'm a winner. I'm not about the accolades. I'm here to win.
Whoever you put in front of me, I'm not going to back down.
I am a fighter; I will keep fighting and will never give up.
My whole life I've worked. My whole life I've been counted out.
We can't change the past. We can only get ready for the future.
I've always said, 'Before you see the rainbow, it has to storm.'
I pride myself on the defensive end. That's where I earn my keep.
If I could just get better a little bit each year, then I did my job.
Back in the '60s, '70s, my mindset and the way I play would be perfect.
Nobody else is going to protect yourself. You've got to protect yourself.
I know how important I am to my team, my teammates. They tell me every day.
The Celtics are an amazing franchise and a great organization to play with.
I don't think it's ever really easy to lose a loved one, especially your mother.
On that court, ain't no such thing as friends and smiling and everything like that.
Me and discrimination, me and racial profiling... we go way back. We've got history.
What would I do if I were being guarded by Marcus Smart? There's not much you can do!
I never had a spring break. I've always been on the road. I've always been traveling.
I am a physical player, no doubt about that, but a dirty player? That's not my reputation.
There's not a lot of guys in this league who are tough for me to guard. It's a short list.
I think every athlete is their own biggest critic. That's just who we are. We're so competitive.
I just wake up and I thank God every day, because I easily could've been in jail or six feet under.
The most physical, most annoying games I ever played in my life were against my brothers growing up.
I've always been playing because I knew this was eventually going to pay off in the long run for me.
The whole point of college is to find yourself, to figure out things before you go into the real world.
I'm not the best shooter and I'm not the best scorer, but you do have to respect me because I can go off.
You know it's a real winter when Bostonians are telling you that they've never experienced anything like it.
I remember times putting on my shirt and having to tuck my stomach in because I didn't like the way it looked.
I want to be in Boston. I want to be here. I love this city, I love this team. I love the atmosphere it gives off.
How many guards are doing what I'm doing guarding 1 through 5? How many bigs are guarding 1s the way I'm guarding 5s?
Our bigs do a lot for us guards to get us shots, to get us shots, to get us open buckets, that they deserve the praise.
I'm a lock-up defender and I believe strongly in my defense, so I don't need to take cheap shots at guys to get an edge.
As a competitor, you're always taught that you want win championships. You want to put yourself in the best place to do that.
I'm not a superman with a cape, I'm only a basketball player for the Celtics. But if I can make one child smile, I've done my job.
As a kid back home in Texas, I was followed by sales associates in stores and called derogatory names more times than I can count.
There are a lot of things that make Kyrie's game unstoppable. But his ability to ad-lib and come up with things on the fly is special.