Rajon Rondo Quotes

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.

I haven't played defense in a couple years.

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.

Can't pick and choose when you're gonna be a leader. If you're gonna be it - gotta do it every day.

I will never play for the Miami Heat.

Everything happens for a reason; I'm a big believer in that.

I never doubted myself. It just didn't work.

Every team doesn't fit every person's style of play.

Whatever my team needs - that's what I do.

Coach showed he believed in me. So I had to believe in myself.

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.

When you lose, nobody likes it and you start turning on each other.

I'm a competitor. I never doubt myself.

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 was always about the team, regardless of our relationship wasn't working out or didn't work out.

Every player, every coach doesn't always see eye to eye.

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.

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.

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.

I don't know, you go through what you go through. You handle adversity, and I think it made me hungrier.

They got a lot of easy baskets and rebounds. That is what killed us.

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 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.

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.