If I were LeBron, I would have gone to Chicago or I would have stayed home and showed a little more loyalty to my city and my team. But I'm not LeBron.
— Stephen Jackson
I love playing basketball more than I love getting fined and getting suspended.
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.
But I'm going to play with the same passion and desire every night, and nobody's going to change that. Not referees. Nobody.
When things are not fair, I speak my mind.
I say what I want to say when I feel like it, regardless of what the consequence is.
I leave everything in God's hands and continue to work on playing basketball.
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.
When I got to Oak Hill, I got a chance to learn. I learned a lot about myself, basketball and about school. If would have stayed in Texas, I probably wouldn't have graduated.
Responsibilities have weighed on me my whole life.
I wasn't the greatest at school, so I studied basketball.
I love the fact that players have control of where they want to play.
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 a sexy guy, you know?
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.
A lot of people think I'm just an athletic thug.
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.
We all know LeBron's IQ is on another planet.
I love wearing my jewelry.
In San Antonio when I was asked to say other players were better than me to help their confidence so they can play better, that was the most disrespectful thing that I've ever heard from any coach in my life.
There's no time for being babies or being scared. If you're scared, go to church.
I want it every game at the end. If you know anything about me, I want the ball at the end. I don't mind taking the shot.
My job's to play basketball. My job's not to be here to be friends with anybody.
My reputation is the main reason why a lot of things don't go my way on the court.
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.
I was the best basketball player, the only thing good in my hometown so everybody did everything for me.
In some crazy sort of way, if I died helping a teammate or a friend or someone that I love, I think I could live with it. My family probably couldn't, but I think I could.
When I lost my brother, it kind of messed me up because in my city, I know everybody. I kind of felt untouchable.
Tim Duncan and Steve Smith made me feel like an All-Star.
I had a hell of a career - didn't miss no games.
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.
It's not too many people who play the game harder than me.
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.
That's the definition of a teammate, being together, being there for your teammate.
You have to listen to the people who employ you.
A team like Golden State makes you change your lineup a little bit.
I'm an assassin on the court. And at home, I'm a nun.
I've never been a guy not to speak my mind and I guess people don't like that.
At the end of the day, if you're not against racism, you're racist.
I'm going to support my teammates. I'm a team guy.
No, I get techs because I want to; I don't care. I'm not getting techs for no reason. It happens.
First, I don't talk to Derek Fisher. He's not my type of guy.
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.
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.
Just winning is special.
The best part of my career was being able to play with a lot of guys from different countries, different places, different races. That was the best part about it.
The Bay Area has become my second home since I arrived here in 2007 and I can't accurately describe how good it feels to be wanted and appreciated by an organization. The Warriors - from Chris Cohan, Robert Rowell, Chris Mullin and Coach Nelson to the last person working in the front office - have embraced me since Day One.
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.
My confidence in myself is unbelievable.
My whole career, I've never had no serious injuries or no surgeries.
