Top 99 Quotes & Sayings by Jordan Clarkson

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Filipino basketball player Jordan Clarkson.

Last updated on September 18, 2024.

Jordan Taylor Clarkson is a Filipino-American professional basketball player for the Utah Jazz of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for two seasons with Tulsa before transferring to Missouri, where he earned second-team all-conference honors in the Southeastern Conference (SEC). After foregoing his senior year in college to enter the 2014 NBA draft, Clarkson was selected by the Washington Wizards in the second round with the 46th overall pick and was immediately traded to the Los Angeles Lakers. In his first year, he was named to the NBA All-Rookie First Team, a rarity for a second-round pick. Clarkson was traded to the Cavaliers in 2018. In December 2019 he was traded to the Jazz. On March 24, 2015, Clarkson along with Jeremy Lin, became the first Asian-American starting back court in NBA history. In 2021, Clarkson was named the NBA Sixth Man of the Year.

Filipino - Basketball Player | Born: June 7, 1992

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Adding muscle and strength will be a big help to me.

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During my rookie year, Kobe was always on me. Get in the gym early with him, getting shots and stuff like that.

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I will do anything a team asks me to do. If it's to come off the bench, I would impact the game by coming off the bench. If I were to start, I would impact the game as a starter. I would impact the game either way.

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It's tough being able to shift your mind during the years and change roles.

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I remember I met Mark Jackson - and even now he still remembers me from middle school.

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To win, you have to have great players around you.

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During the season, I'm not really on too many other things - I'm just focused on basketball. But I'm a big lover of music and I watch a lot of movies.

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I'm always going to be aggressive on both ends of the floor. That's where I'm going to make my mark.

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I mean I always wanted to get tattoos, that's why I got them kind of fast. Because I already knew what I wanted and kind of where I wanted to put everything at, just had to wait for the right time.

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When I'm on the court I'm just trying to impact the game.

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I feel like you can burn yourself out. I'm not trying to do that.

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In the playoffs, it changes a little bit with defenses tightening up and every little thing is put under the microscope.

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I know I'm a playmaker.

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I'm focused on always working on my game.

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I want to be somewhere that I can call home and leave a legacy.

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My main goal is trying to win games and a championship.

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It's been good being able to go back to the Philippines, practice with the national team, do workouts and things.

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I try to not put two bad games together.

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It took a lot of work to go from the 'Not Top 10' to being selected for the NBA All-Rookie First Team.

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For the majority of my rookie year, I had to lug around a fake baby doll in a pink stroller whenever I was entering and leaving Staples Center.

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I want to be here in L.A. - a place where I can call home - and leave a legacy.

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As long as I'm on the court, playing minutes, I'm going to impact the game someway - if that's defensively or offensively.

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I just want to be good. I just want to be great one day.

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My shot consistency is an area I can improve and continuing to work on my ballhandling.

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If I'm going to be a sixth man, I'm going to go for Sixth Man of the Year. If I'm a starter, I'm definitely trying to be a great player either way.

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For me, whenever I get on the floor, I'm gonna try to impact the game and just do what I do.

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I definitely want to stay in L.A. but kind of have an open mind.

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Not all rookie lessons are learned on the hardwood. There are factors like rookie duties and building team camaraderie.

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Once you're a Laker, all eyes truly are on you.

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When the Lakers sent me down to the D-League, I didn't view it as a demotion. I accepted it as a challenge. Plus, it meant playing more minutes, which meant growth.

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I know sometimes the shots look a little crazy when I'm taking them early in the shot clock and stuff like that.

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We ain't got no room for the hate no more. That's got to go out of the window real quick.

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A big thing for me is trying to work on slowing down and not rushing plays, so I can be able to make plays for my teammates.

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I felt like I was one of the better point guards in the draft, maybe the best. But falling out of the first round and being selected in the second round, the number really doesn't matter where you get drafted - it's about the fit.

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We're trying to play big time in the playoffs and do something special.

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Not many people make it out of San Antonio. I can't even count on my hand how many NBA players are from San Antonio.

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I feel like I need to get stronger for both: offensively and defensively.

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I can be a better defender. It's one of those things where I like to always find something wrong so I can get better.

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We always laughing and joking, playing around, but, you know, when it's time to go to work, we go to work.

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I'm just trying to be aggressive and make plays, but you watch film and you see that you can get off the ball get it to somebody else and let them make a play for you.

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I love to hoop and you can never get better just by sitting on the bench.

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I felt like I was a first-round pick.

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I've just always felt that I've been slept on, so I'm just trying to wake people up.

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There's so much stuff in the sea that we ain't never seen before.

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I love women.

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I try to keep my nose down and keep grinding. I keep working and having fun.

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The one or two I'm comfortable playing. They might even play me at the five sometimes.

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When I have a bad game, I watch the film and just kind of remember everything.

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Coming into a winning situation kind of brings the best out of everybody and pulls people together.

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Laker Nation is different from any other fanbase.

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From day one in summer league, I had a chip on my shoulder.

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I just control what I can control - go out there and try to be the best I can be in the minutes I get, with the plays that are called for me.

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I feel like I'm one of those guys that can impact the game in any way.

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I got a chip on my shoulder from the Draft.

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I'm a second-round pick - 46th pick. It's always gonna be on my mind.

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Y'all know how we have dogs and stuff right? So I think it was bigger people in the world before us, and the dinosaurs was they pets.

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If the Sixth Man of the Year award comes and I don't get it, I don't need the validation because my teammates, coaching staff and a lot of my peers gave me that. They're telling me, 'I respect what you do' and all of that. So, I know that goes a long way as well. But it's definitely something I want to get accomplished one of these years.

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I'm never going to forget draft day.

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Two different styles of leadership. LeBron, very encouraging, bringing everybody along, and Kobe, he's testing you, seeing what you gonna give him. If he gonna get at you, he gonna scream at you, he gonna cuss, he gonna do whatever it is. He had his own way of leading guys as well. It's two different sides. I'm just blessed to see both of them.

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We have to figure out how to do that, in terms of playing with that mindset of just not caring. Playing free in a structured manner.

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