Top 55 Iman Shumpert Quotes

I have respect for everybody in the league.

I’m not making music to get played in a club.

Truth is, none of us professional athletes are ever 100 percent healthy. We just decide what we’re going to tape up and push through without making it worse.

If the offensive player starts losing confidence, that gets the defender’s confidence up – and I think the team can feel it.

I think when I started playing against some of the best guys on the AAU circuit, I started to look at myself and say, ‘I am one of these guys.’

I wish I was in my 20s during the ’90s to really fully live it. I feel like that was a pretty exciting time being from Chicago, seeing Jordan win six rings.

If somebody scores on me, I’m going to be mad.

To me, rapping is an art.

Having a routine makes for a better professional.

I think early on in the league, my biggest problem was I tried to put out what I believe was an innocent fire because I felt it was a conflict with other stars.

Don’t let men fool you… we all want love; we just know that it can leave us very vulnerable, and we seek a woman who understands and protects that with her life.

My worst day, I’m just going to try and smile.

I like Batman, I like basketball, and I like to rap.

Usually, if I do a good job in the plus/minus category, I know I’ve had a good game.

I like to paint pictures with words, ’cause I can’t draw for anything.

The NBA actually encourages balanced living. Realistically, basketball only takes up about six hours of your day before it becomes counterproductive.

I’m a people person. I’m a hugger.

I’m glad Phil Jackson got the rings for Chicago. You traded me away from New York, cool. It’s all business; it’s all love, whatever. But I’m a grownup now. You not my hero no more.

I’m playing basketball. It’s my dream job. So I’m a pretty happy camper.

I think I am a good help defender as well as just bringing a lot of communication to the floor.

I need music all the time – just to get my vibe where I want it.

I think that for my sport, the core is the most important. I mean, really in all sports, but especially in the sport I play, I keep my core right and try and keep that up no matter what I’m doing.

My job is to pay attention to the feel of the game and always add a positive energy to it on my team through the ups and downs of the game.

When you have a lot of communication, it picks up the aggressiveness with everybody on the court.

As long as we win, I’m happy.

I make sure I do a lot of core work in my training.

I can’t begin to try to articulate the competitive nature I possess.

I wanted to go the NBA and win a championship because I’ve never seen a grown man cry the way Scottie Pippen and Michael Jordan cried when they won a championship.

I believe all men that are desired by masses of women due to looks, drive, and character are all more than likely to be seeing multiple women (Rightfully so if they are single).

If I bring positive energy to the court, most times, I can get that back.

Everybody in this league waits on an opportunity when you don’t play the starter minutes, when you don’t play the type of minutes you want. And with each given opportunity, you got to be ready to come out and perform.

I just want to win.

I feel like I can defend three different positions: point guards, shooting guards, and small forwards who don’t want to play too much in the post.

I love fashion.

The way I rap isn’t about me boasting. Rarely will I do that.

I never said to myself, ‘Get to the NBA, be an All-Star, make a $100 million contract.’

In Chicago, growing up there, that’s how we played. You play for something more than just yourself. You play to win, and that’s all that really matters.

In high school, I had gym, and with me just being so competitive, I would go too hard in gym class.

I always liked crop tops after I saw it on ‘Fresh Prince.’

I like playing in Chicago.

Because of what I’ve saved, I don’t really have a lot of worries about money.

As I go back and look at the film, if I look at my first year, every time I caught the ball, I was looking to do something.

I was told I was going undrafted. That’s what I was told by everybody. I guess I wasn’t good enough in everybody else’s eyes.

The way I have played throughout my career has been sporadic.

It’s cool to be on a team where we don’t know who’s going to score it.

I was called fool’s gold. That’s what I was called in the draft combine. That’s how I remember it. I took it personal.

There are certain guys that are obviously a lot more talented than myself and a lot of the other players in the league, but… once you gotta play against me, all that’s out the window.

It don’t matter who scores; we just got to win.

People sometimes think that if someone plays basketball, they have to do that one thing they’re great at. But I like being able to show that you can do more than one thing and do it at a high level.

I can go toe-to-toe with somebody with my shoes. But you can’t do it with LeBron, ’cause what shoe does he not have?

My father, my first coach, would never let me punk out if I was capable of helping the team.

I’ve started most of the time I’ve been in a Knick jersey, so I just think they want me to bring a certain energy every night. They want me to bring that defensive presence because they know I can make something out of nothing on defense, and I think they just want me to bring that defensive presence every day.

I’d rather somebody expect a lot out of me than nothing at all.

Rap isn’t that time-consuming for me, compared to an ordinary artist. I do not stay in the studio all day.

Some people are going to like me; some people won’t.