Top 108 Quotes & Sayings by Stephon Marbury
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American athlete Stephon Marbury.
Last updated on December 21, 2024.
People don't even know how hard it is to play in China. People think it is easy for the foreign players, but it is really not. It's difficult.
China is home now.
I got so used to using chopsticks that using a fork and knife is weird.
When I get on the basketball court, there's not too many things I can't do.
Playing basketball is second nature to me; acting I found far more challenging.
When you're a good person, good things happen to you.
When I was younger, I had a different disposition as far as how I wanted to live life.
Losing exposes character, and winning breeds it.
Making a difference has always been most important to Starbury because it takes lots of care and thought to do so.
I'm from the housing projects, where people can't afford $150 shoes.
Whenever you've got an inside presence, it makes the game extremely easy.
My numbers are Hall of Fame.
Rucker is love.
I've been through a lot of different things, experienced a lot of different things.
There's a difference when you want something and when you need something.
I give everybody respect. There's nobody in the NBA who I disrespect because on any given night, you're liable to get lit up.
I love the Chinese people.
For me, my Beijing jersey will be the jersey that I will retire here in China.
God is love, and love is love.
Nothing can compare to my experience in China. My situation is fortunate because I actually love it there, and I love it because of the people. For what they did to me, I'm forever invested into that country. Living there has been great for me and great for my life.
Basketball's always been something that I loved.
I play basketball; I actually like the triangle. It opens things up if you know how to move without the ball and know how to cut. That's the game you learn in high school and younger - pass, cut - basically the fundamentals of basketball, which makes it extremely difficult to guard.
When you're happy, and you're smiling people don't like that. That's why I smile all the time.
I was born in church. I was raised in church.
I'm going to set up a foundation for the world. I'm going to take the money and start building cities all over the world. I'm a comet.
A panther is quick and smart and always alert to everything. He's sitting on top of a mountain, with the sun and the clouds. That's where I want to see myself.
It was a steppingstone. The NBA, for me, was preparation for me to do something someplace else.
I would say my hardest opponent that I have to face has to be probably Rod Strickland. He's very strong. He's a guy who gets to the basket, and when his jump shot is on, it's really hard to stop him.
My favorite point guard, growing up, was Magic Johnson. The reason why I say that is he was a winner, and he did everything in his power to make his teammates better. That's what the game is all about as a point guard.
I had to deal with so many haters.
Everyone starts the playoffs with the same record. It doesn't matter who won 70 games or whatever.
With Starbury, we are trying to do something for the community and make a product that everyone can afford.
My Beijing jersey means more to me than any of them.
I go on the court to win, and that is it.
Playing basketball at MSG is a lot of fun when you are winning, but when you are not, it's not fun.
If I didn't play the way how I played, I wouldn't have gotten no max contract.
I have three championships in a country where I don't speak the language.
I love Coney Island. I saw all different kinds of people - Russian, Italian, black, Puerto Rican, rich people in Sea Gate and in the co-ops. You'd see people in the co-ops or in the houses, and it was like, Man, I wish I could have this. I wish my mother and father could buy me this. Me being an independent thinker, I was like, I'm gonna get that.
China is the best. Since I moved there, my life has been amazing. The best time of my life. Not even close. I guess this was how it was all supposed to go down.
College players make money for the colleges. You think they spend all that recruiting money to get the best students? Come on.
My mission on this planet hasn't changed. I want to nurture the planet, to guide the planet, to help the planet.
I feel forever debted to China.
New York is a Show Me state. We're like Missouri.
I drink life's happy water, which is bottled at the divine source.
I'm a black kid from the ghetto of Coney Island, Brooklyn, who only ever dreamed of playing in the NBA. So to have that dream come true but then go on this second journey in China... it's so far beyond anything that kid could have imagined.
I think it's tough that we build Michael Vick up, and then we break him down. I think he's one of the superb athletes, and he's a good human being.
From what I hear, dogfighting is a sport. It's just behind closed doors.
All those places that I've played at is a preparation for me to come to Beijing.
Going to a foreign country, winning championships, having a statue, getting a green card, the key to the city, a museum - that's not something I can say I could ever see happening.
You've just got to win in China - that's it. Winning is like good deodorant. When you don't win, it's like you stink; you smell.
I still want to see the Knicks do well; I do. I promise I do. That's my team. After all the stuff that happened, people say to me, 'You still like the Knicks?' Well, that's just the way it is. That's what happens when you're a kid. Your team is your team, and everything is die-hard.
I learned more in that first year in the NBA than I could have in four years of college.
The name of the game is put the ball in the hole.
When you look at organizations that work, everyone is on the same page as far as what they are doing.
I think going to another country and being able to evolve past my thinking and what actually went on in America was a little bit different from what athletes experience here in America.
Consistency is always the best teacher.
The 'New York Daily News' called me the most reviled athlete ever in sports history in New York. I don't listen to them.
For me, it's vital to continue to share my experiences and allow my experiences to help the younger generation.
I look at a guy like The Rock - how he started with his natural ability in sports but gravitated into Hollywood - as a model for what's possible.
I shoot to win because I shoot to win, and that's it.
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