Top 93 Quotes & Sayings by Stephen Jackson
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Last updated on December 22, 2024.
You can't expect a coach to win with guys that don't even care about the game.
I grew up on Geto Boys and of course UGK, who put my hometown of Port Arthur, Texas, on the map. I was about Goodie Mob and OutKast too.
There's one thing that people will never know about Tim Duncan: Tim Duncan might know more UFC moves and more fighting moves than anybody in the UFC.
Kobe can play in any league.
I'm never going to settle for losing.
I'm an assassin on the court. And at home, I'm a nun.
I don't want to be a guy who's just sitting on the bench stealing money.
Before 2 Chainz got big, he used to sleep on my couch.
NBA or nothing, man. I don't need the money. I just want to give back to the game. Anything else is a step down, so I just want to give the NBA a shot.
My whole career, I've never had no serious injuries or no surgeries.
How many people can say that they've punched a fan?
I'm from Texas, so we used to wear our pants starched down like a cowboy. So when I got to New York, to New Jersey, everybody was laughing at me like, 'Look at his pants! His pants could stand up by themselves!'
It's hard for any man to take something thrown at his face and not to retaliate.
Who creates a fake page? If I want to respond to a person on social media, it has to come from my page with the verified check on it.
My confidence in myself is unbelievable.
There's a lot of guys that play the game of basketball for the money, for the fame.
People don't understand how it feels to be with a guy who you call your teammate and you're with more than your family during the course of a season.
I would not advise a young player to even listen to Byron Scott, because he is the worst coach at communicating with young guys, and I'm living proof.
Just winning is special.
I was raised that if I'm with you and we get in a fight, I'm going to help you. We're going down together. That's how it goes.
Mike Brown is a guy I definitely respect.
I partied too much. I was still 19, 20 years old. I was coming from a little small city where there's 40,000 people, so being in New Jersey, New York, being with a big All-Star like Stephon Marbury, he's calling me every night to go out with him. I didn't know how to say no.
All the racial slurs I done heard. All the things I heard about my mom, and my basketball game and my kids, all this. It felt good to punch a fan one time.
My rookie year, Byron Scott didn't really want to sign me. In New Jersey, the New Jersey Nets. I got there, and Byron Scott didn't really like me, but they let me come to camp and I was having a great camp. Stephon Marbury embraced me.
I played quarterback, safety and receiver.
When things are not fair, I speak my mind.
I came into the NBA not looking at it as a job but the same way I did when I was playing at the Y. I was just getting a paid a lot of money to do it, that's all.
I had a taste of a championship in San Antonio, and that was big for me. I cried when we won, and I hadn't cried in 10 years before that. It felt good, everything I'd been through, to say I was the champion at the end of the year.
God chose me for a reason. My momma tells me that every day. I know there's a million people who want to be in my shoes.
When I lost my brother, it kind of messed me up because in my city, I know everybody. I kind of felt untouchable.
I'm not stupid. I mean, I didn't go to college but I've got a lot of common sense.
Being from the South, I was really into Southern rap, but I listened to a lot of stuff from all over.
I never thought I would be in a situation where I would have to go into the stands and actually help my teammate fight fans. But at that time, there's no way I could have lived with myself knowing that my teammate is in the stands fighting and I'm not helping him.
I am Port Arthur. I'm the president of Port Arthur.
I couldn't afford to go to the record store to buy new tapes, so I'd tape everything off the radio. Just hit record when my song came on. I used to take my mom's tapes and tape over them. I had a nice little collection. Had my own Stephen Jackson mixtapes off the radio!
I love the fact that players have control of where they want to play.
Nobody wants to play the game more than Kawhi. Nobody wants to be great or go down as one of the greatest more than Kawhi. So his heart and his passion and if he wants to play basketball should never be questioned.
Just because we make a lot of money we're supposed to be the bigger person? Fans tell us that our kids are ugly and that they should have thrown our mothers in jail for having us. That's not disrespectful?
It's easy to go out there and fight and scratch and play and sweat and bleed for guys that you consider your friends, your brothers.
I don't want to be fake.
The best part of my career was being able to play with a lot of guys from different countries, different places, different races. That was the best part about it.
I wasn't the greatest at school, so I studied basketball.
Tim Duncan and Steve Smith made me feel like an All-Star.
If you are walking through the hood and you notice the cracks in the sidewalk where all the weeds, pebbles, dirt and grit settle in, that's me.
If you really love something, you gonna do it until you can't do it no more. And that's how I feel about basketball.
I am going to be happy regardless where I am at as long as I am playing basketball with some guys that have the same common goal that I have, and that is to win.
I got a lot of respect for my OGs, so when they ask me to do something, I do it.
That's the definition of a teammate, being together, being there for your teammate.
Me personally, I can take getting beat, if it's about basketball. But when it gets to the point where you're being personal, and being disrespectful as a man to another man, that's when I have a problem.
Anytime you want to take time off from a job that millions of brothers work so hard to get here, that's not being humble.
I'm a sexy guy, you know?
I'm not going to let Kobe throw elbows at me.
I went to Golden State and helped them get to the playoffs my first year there, and they haven't been to the playoffs in 13 years. I played in Charlotte... and I got them to the playoffs. So, every team I go to, I make them better.
I never met a dollar that could change me. Been the same guy since day one.
The Bay Area has become my second home since I arrived here in 2007 and I can't accurately describe how good it feels to be wanted and appreciated by an organization. The Warriors - from Chris Cohan, Robert Rowell, Chris Mullin and Coach Nelson to the last person working in the front office - have embraced me since Day One.
A lot of people think I'm just an athletic thug.
I think Don King has always been an idiot in my mind. He's always been about money. I don't think he cares about anything else but himself.
I had a hell of a career - didn't miss no games.
I'm a grown man. I have six kids. I'm married now. So I speak my mind.
It's not too many people who play the game harder than me.
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