Top 44 Stephen Jackson Quotes

Being from the South, I was really into Southern rap, but I listened to a lot of stuff from all over.

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.

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.

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.

I’m not going to let Kobe throw elbows at me.

At the end of the day, if you’re not against racism, you’re racist.

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.

First, I don’t talk to Derek Fisher. He’s not my type of guy.

Responsibilities have weighed on me my whole life.

There’s a lot of guys that play the game of basketball for the money, for the fame.

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.

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!’

That’s the definition of a teammate, being together, being there for your teammate.

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.

I’m a sexy guy, you know?

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.

I never met a dollar that could change me. Been the same guy since day one.

My job’s to play basketball. My job’s not to be here to be friends with anybody.

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.

I’m never going to settle for losing.

George Karl’s son probably wouldn’t have made it to the NBA if he wasn’t a coach. He would have never got the opportunity.

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 want to be part of a team that wants to win. Guys that are trusting each other, guys that don’t mind playing hard.

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 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.

I just wanted to be around a positive organization that’s used to winning and plays the game the right way. Milwaukee, they’re not used to winning. I just wasn’t going to go for it at the end of my career.

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’m an assassin on the court. And at home, I’m a nun.

I’ve been at the bottom. I’ve lost loved ones, I’ve lost best friends, but that’s part of life. I don’t hide that.

Kobe can play in any league.

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.

You have to listen to the people who employ you.

I love the fact that players have control of where they want to play.

I got a lot of respect for my OGs, so when they ask me to do something, I do it.

I say what I want to say when I feel like it, regardless of what the consequence is.

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.

It’s hard for any man to take something thrown at his face and not to retaliate.

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.

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.

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.

It’s not too many people who play the game harder than me.

I am Port Arthur. I’m the president of Port Arthur.

When I lost my brother, it kind of messed me up because in my city, I know everybody. I kind of felt untouchable.

I don’t want to be fake.