“The reason I got into sickle cell was my aunt has the disease, my uncl...” — Devin McCourty Quote

“The reason I got into sickle cell was my aunt has the disease, my uncle has the disease, and then the more I looked into it, a lot of minorities have the disease and it just doesn't get covered. No one really talks about it, and I felt it was the same thing with the different social injustice issues and topics that I kind of dove into.”

“When you go into a different stadium, you know there's no home crowd, there's no energy coming from the crowd for your side.”

“We thought playing in the Super Bowl was nerve-racking until we went to the Massachusetts State House to testify for an education bill.”

“It was more my uncle - my mom's brother - and my aunt who turned me on to hoops. He was more into basketball and he'd take me to Raptors games. And then my dad started taking me with him. And I started falling in love with the game.”

“Female influence came from my grandmother and my aunt. They would sing Corsican love songs while cleaning the house and dress all in black and say melodramatic things like: 'I want to die.'”

“My aunt looked like Lucille Ball, and everything she touched was beautiful and elegant. But I was intelligent enough to understand I would never be like her.”