MARCUS SMART

The most physical, most annoying games I ever played in my life were against my brothers growing up.

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.

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.

Make sure you're building your brand early and make sure it's a good brand so in life after basketball, you have an option and you have resources to help you with that.

You know it's a real winter when Bostonians are telling you that they've never experienced anything like it.

Me and discrimination, me and racial profiling... we go way back. We've got history.

As a competitor, you're always taught that you want win championships. You want to put yourself in the best place to do that.

For my future growth, I'm going to keep working. I'm going to put everything I have in it, and I think everybody knows that that's just the type of person I am.

I believe in myself. I always have and I always will.

You need to separate the fans and the players.

I just don't want to give anybody a reason to label me as something I'm not.

Being on the court is a great thing for me.

I'm a winner. I'm not about the accolades. I'm here to win.

I'm the youngest of four boys. My whole life I had to fight. I had to get down and do things in order to secure my spot in the household. So, coming onto the court, it's nothing different.

Trying to guard Kawhi on an island by yourself is tough. You gotta take the basket away and push him to your help. You want him to take a contested shot as far away from the basket as possible, because his mid-range game is phenomenal.

That's just me, growing up I've always had confidence.

If you watch me for a long time, you'll really understand and appreciate the way I play.

I could've easily let the passing of my brother control how I live my life. But I was determined not to let him die in vain and to make a negative into a positive.

I'm blessed. I'm going to get to do something I love to do and get paid a lot of money for it.

The uniqueness about me is I don't do one thing perfectly or great. I do a little bit of everything. That's what makes me so unique. I'm just trying to master a little bit of everything.

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.

Thank God I had both parents and older brothers.

I look at basketball as like a storm. But it's the eye of the storm. The calmest place of it is to be right in the eye of it. And that's what basketball is for me; it's my eye. And while everything else around me is going on,' he continued, 'the destruction and things like that, basketball keeps me calm.

If I'm too busy looking in the past, how can I see what's in front of me with the future?

I think every athlete is their own biggest critic. That's just who we are. We're so competitive.