Top 45 Jabari Parker Quotes

I played a lot of 4. Even in high school.

I focus on the team.

I was named after a Muslim.

Growing up, I admired old cars. In Chicago, on the South Side, people didn’t have the newest cars, but one thing I always noticed was that they took good care of their cars. It was a pride thing. Even if you had a funky Oldsmobile, you kept it clean. You changed the oil. You took a toothbrush to the rims.

It was always a goal of mine to be in the NBA.

I just want to be a good person, to be a good man for my family, and to my community and just to keep on playing this game that I love.

People in life have those issues – ups and downs – and I’m just a trailblazer to show whatever you do, you always get up. No matter how far you fall, you always get up.

Black Lives Matter and police brutality are issues that are important to me.

I think what I wanted mostly to experience in college is playing college basketball and learning.

I don’t put stuff out in the media. I don’t do that.

Sleep is so essential.

Look at everybody in the league. They don’t pay players to play defense.

When it comes to me not supporting Donald Trump, it’s pretty much correlated to the things he has said.

I don’t aspire to be the richest man.

I want to be treated like everyone else.

My dad taught me to be professional, to treat others the way you want to be treated, to be selfless, to give more than you receive and to always give your best effort.

Nobody is different from anyone else, no matter what the situation. We’re all equal.

I’m the type of person, I don’t like to make a big deal out of problems.

I always pray before the game. I have a big-time belief in that. It just gives me that extra boost, the confidence, the faith that I’m going to play and be safe.

My mother didn’t get her citizenship until much later in life.

Yeah, I’ve had injuries.

I never support it when people want to play it safe.

My dad is more credible than almost anybody I know. Growing up, I think I took for granted having a father in my life. I know I shouldn’t have been like that. A lot of my friends didn’t have a father, so for so many people he was the father figure. I look at the way he’s lived his life, sacrificing so much.

My brother, Christian, helps me stay focused and grounded.

I don’t care what haters think – I’m proud to not stay in Trump hotels.

I’m a man of habit.

Everybody knows I hate attention.

We might all come from different places, but home means something – something powerful – to each of us.

I think people know about my love for cars – my infatuation for cars.

I’m black, and he’s said some controversial stuff about black people. When it comes to me not supporting Donald Trump, it’s correlated to the things he has said. I have a gay uncle. All the things he said in his campaign are things I can’t associate myself with.

I really want to be a philanthropist.

I believe that if you love what you do, and you work hard at it, everything falls in place.

You don’t want to endorse hate; you don’t want to endorse racism. You don’t want to support controversy.

I want to show good sportsmanship.

If I can’t defend my opponent and if he scores as much I’m scoring then he won the matchup.

I love sleep. I find sleep to be a hobby.

I love spilling my creativity on paper. I just draw.

I’m lucky to have the support and the platform I have, and I plan on making the most of it.

My role is what I make it to be. That’s just playing the right way, being a good teammate and hopefully everything else takes care of itself.

A lot of people say I do play like Carmelo Anthony. That’s just a great saying of my game.

Milwaukee, man… it’s home.

I’m a really big fan of hip-hop, and I can listen to it before the game, but I’m not that into a lot of profane music.

My mother is basically an immigrant because she came from Tonga.

It’s always good to have people from my school accomplish great things. It doesn’t necessarily have to be just basketball. I want to see more people do other things from my school.

On the Sabbath, I’m supposed to focus on Jesus and the resurrection. But if I don’t practice, I let the team down. I don’t want my teammates to think that I think I’m special.