Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by DeMarcus Cousins
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American athlete DeMarcus Cousins.
Last updated on September 17, 2024.
I love it here in New Orleans.
I grew up in a rough area, went to an all-black school, public school.
If you judge me only by my profession, you don't know me at all. Those people who do that? They'll never know me.
I'm a Mobile, Alabama kid.
I'm just a basketball player. There's so much I can do on the floor.
People say they hate having fake people around, but when you keep it real, they hate you even more. People don't like the truth.
When it was clear I couldn't stay in New Orleans, I went out and created what would end up being the best opportunity for myself. I asked my agent to set up a call with the Warriors. I knew they could use a big.
Who knew I was blowing my Achilles?
I didn't have the best Christmases, but my mom and family did what they could.
I'm a good guy.
If you was somewhere walking down the street and somebody says something crazy to you, you're going to react. So just because it's a basketball event doesn't mean those emotions go out the door or us being a human being goes out the door. It's the same thing.
Social media is the devil. Absolute devil. Oh, my God. It's the worst thing ever.
Coming into the league, everyone said I was going to be fat, I was the next Oliver Miller. I had all these red flags. I just feel I was never given a fair chance coming in.
I've never been a guy who plays the political game. It's either right or wrong; that's how I was raised.
It's hard getting the rhythm when you're not seeing the ball go through the basket.
One of my biggest fears is to be proven wrong by somebody that doesn't agree with me or doesn't have my best interest at heart. With that being said I'm always seeking to prove those types of people wrong.
I'm an emotional guy. It's as simple as that.
You are either with me or you're not.
I want my family and myself to be comfortable wherever I am at the time, and just be able to relax and kind of let my hair down.
Some of my technicals, I don't even understand. I see some of those technicals other players get, and I compare them to mine and they're completely unfair.
I've kind of been doubted my whole life. I use that as fuel to continue to push every single day.
I'm human. I mean, I'm not always happy.
Leadership is being the best example you can be for your teammates. The guy that everybody can depend on on a nightly basis.
I don't want to be Boogie. I just wanna be DeMarcus.
Putting a smile on kids, putting a smile on families' faces, changing people's lives with your so-called status and celebrity with your so-called impact, that's reality.
You can call it what you want: bad attitude, immature. You can say, 'He's a thug.' But I'm a competitor.
The body can take you wherever your mind goes. If I can do it in my mind, I think my body will follow.
I'm a guy with a big heart who cares about people.
Believe in yourself.
I just control what I control.
People don't like when people are straight forward. They like things to be sugar coated. They like to beat around the bush. I'm not that type of person.
The beginning to correcting all of our mistakes is communication.
I want to put Sacramento back on the map.
I actually prefer teammates that have emotions. It means you care, compared to a guy that's kind of just nonchalant and goes about it like it doesn't matter. So I want guys that care. I want guys that show they care.
I don't like to be proved wrong.
When they say I'm a bad teammate and that I got a coach fired, that irritates the hell out of me. The biggest thing for me is to always have respect for my teammates. And then the whole Westphal thing - the man got himself fired. He was losing before I got here.
There are ignorant individuals in every city.
I've got a real problem when I know something is wrong or I feel something is wrong, I'm going to speak about it. I get it from my mother.
I never in a million years would have thought I would end up with Golden State.
Sometimes I let some of the small things take over. It can be a simple thing, like a call going the wrong way, and it takes me all off.
A lot of the mistakes I made were my fault.
What people don't realize is that this is the entertainment business.
Some of what I get, I deserve; I do some dumb stuff sometimes. But I do not deserve the perception that I have.
I'm grateful for every opportunity. I learned the hard way.
I'm big when it comes to respect. But it's a two-way street, in my eyes.
Dream big and anything is possible.
So you know, the people that do know me, they know I can be very stubborn.
This is a frustrating sport. There are a lot of emotions involved.
I love the game. I think that's obvious, and I'm very passionate in what I do.
Nobody can tell you what your destiny is.
I love my job. If I have a chance to play against some of the top talent in the world or whether it's against guys around the corner, I'm going to play.
I'm not going to sit here and say I'm innocent, because I've done things. But to get the reputation that I've got, I don't think I've done enough. I don't have a criminal record.
We in a nasty business, at times. I don't even say that in a good or bad way. It's just no place to get too emotional.
I know who I am as a person. And the people that matter around me know who I am.
I don't do things to be rewarded. I help people because it's the right thing to do.
God gives his hardest battles to his strongest soldiers.
My mom raised six kids on her own.
If I started smiling all the time, people would say, 'DeMarcus must not care anymore.'
You make yourself be whatever the hell you want to be, at the end of the day.
My main purpose every night is to win a game.
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