Top 20 DeMar DeRozan Quotes

I’ve never been one who wanted any type of attention, good nor bad.

You gotta be able to take criticism if you want to be anything close to great. Even if it’s not true. You use that as an advantage for yourself. You can use that negative energy and turn that into an energy that drives you to be something more than you thought you could be. That’s one thing I did.

I don’t care what shape, form, ethnicity, nothing. I treat everybody the same.

I took pride in everything when it came to Canada. Not even just Toronto, everything that came with Canada, wearing that Toronto Raptors jersey.

At the end of the day, the only person to have a better Kobe sneaker game than me is Kobe himself.

My mom always told me: Never make fun of anybody, because you never know what that person is going through. Ever since I was a kid, I never did. I never did.

We’re all human at the end of the day. That’s why I look at every person I encounter the same way.

I played against Kobe a lot when I was in high school during the summers, even in college, just being that guy in L.A. coming up. He always gave me advice here and there, and even the smallest things stuck with me. I watched every single thing that Kobe did, every game, every move. He made me a student of the game.

My mindset was that I was always going to be in Toronto my whole career, but I was never naive.

I told myself that if I went to Compton High, and I made something out of the school, it would mean something to me later down the line because I started everything. And future kids would say, ‘DeMar made it here; why can’t I?’ I wanted to stay home.

I don’t care who you are. You can be the smallest person off the street, or you could be the biggest person in the world. I’m going to treat everybody the same – with respect.

Other people gotta be told when to go to the gym, what to work out, what to work on, what to do. For me, it was always my own self-motivation of maybe just wanting to make it out of Compton. I was like that with everything in my life.

Every time I shoot a turnaround, I feel like nobody can block it.

If you work for it, you’ll deserve what comes. Hard work.

I never force nothing in my game. I let everything come whenever it needed to come. That’s the beauty of it.

My mom’s one of the toughest ladies I know. I’ve seen her lose both her brothers, both her parents. She’s been through a lot, and to see her get up every day and put a smile on her face, that shows nothing but strength.

I don’t try to be nothing I’m not. I’m not flashy. I’m just me.

My dad always played sports. He played football. I always wanted to play football because my dad played football, but my mom never wanted me to play football because she said she couldn’t take me getting hit.

I never wanted to be ordinary. I never just wanted to do one thing.

It’s one of them things that no matter how indestructible we look like we are, we’re all human at the end of the day. We all got feelings… all of that.