I'm going to set up a foundation for the world. I'm going to take the money and start building cities all over the world. I'm a comet.
— Stephon Marbury
A panther is quick and smart and always alert to everything. He's sitting on top of a mountain, with the sun and the clouds. That's where I want to see myself.
New York basketball is about defense.
You have to have a lot of good players to win a championship.
It's the Basketball Hall of Fame, not the NBA Hall of Fame. So, for basketball, I played in Olympics; I played in the Junior Olympics. With what I've done and given to basketball is all Hall of Fame.
It's easy to love people who love you.
Me playing for the Knicks is not realistic.
There's no other player that's playing basketball on this earth that has accomplished some of the things I've accomplished, and it's all through showing love and winning championships.
Carmelo Anthony is one of the best players in the NBA.
My on-court temperament is totally to just win and destroy.
I think Lonzo Ball will be good because he has a great foundation of how he plays the game.
Everything has changed since I came to China.
Coming to Beijing, throughout all of what has happened and the success I have gained, I look at it as I was just fortunate and blessed.
It's New York - it comes with it. If you can't deal with it, you leave. If you lose, they talk about you. When you win, they love you.
I feel forever debted to China.
If I didn't play the way how I played, I wouldn't have gotten no max contract.
My mission on this planet hasn't changed. I want to nurture the planet, to guide the planet, to help the planet.
Jeanie Buss - I love her with all my heart. I'd take my heart out and give it to her. That's how ill she is. I love that lady.
When you're a good person, good things happen to you.
I'm a real Knick fan, not a fake fan.
I always watched Michael Jordan and Magic Johnson, and I said I could be playing on the court with them.
My sister had been praying for me since I was born: my sister, Stephanie, my namesake. That's what she is to me; my namesake - Stephanie, Stephon. Stephanie - that's my daughter's name. I kept it in the family.
People ask me about China all the time. You gotta come to China to see for yourself.
I've won in the game of life.
For me, I love the path that I have taken on. I take all of my experiences; I eliminate all of the bad and take all of the positive.
I always wanted the Acura Legend Coupe.
I grew up one of seven kids, and my mom couldn't afford to get us any of the $150 shoes.
When I see a sneaker for over $400, for me, that's kind of brainless because it doesn't cost that much to make.
Acting is definitely something I want to do after I finish playing basketball.
I've been defending myself since I left Minnesota. Because I didn't comply to what they wanted, then it was like, 'Oh, I'm selfish. I'm this. I'm that.' I'm like, 'How can that be? You were just about to give me $71 million! Who gives someone $71 million, and they're selfish, and they're jealous of Kevin Garnett and all of this stupid stuff?'
Coaching - get a guy like Phil Jackson, you expect the coaching to change right away and things to change right away. Ultimately, it takes a lot of time.
I had to deal with so many haters.
I drink life's happy water, which is bottled at the divine source.
I've been through a lot of different things, experienced a lot of different things.
I learned to treat everybody with respect. I've learned to be focused, be a professional person, the kind who is always an honor to be around.
The NBA and college are two totally different games.
You can't win the chess match if you don't have enough pieces.
I've always watched the NBA growing up.
One person can't bring you to the playoffs or win a championship.
What China has done for me, it was something that I needed. It wasn't something that I wanted.
When I went to Boston, I tell people all the time, being able to be in that arena with those banners hanging up, it excited me.
I'm a max player. Don't get mad at me because I'm telling you what's real. One plus one is two, all day long, and it's never gonna change. And that's factorial.
When I'm on the court in New York, I'm laying everything out. It means so much.
I want to make sure that people can always have affordable shoes to wear.
You leave America, then you go someplace else, you begin to create something totally different.
My heart is filled with love for my new extended family - the billion-plus people in China who have shown me nothing but unconditional love.
Coaching is something I want to do.
I play basketball; I actually like the triangle. It opens things up if you know how to move without the ball and know how to cut. That's the game you learn in high school and younger - pass, cut - basically the fundamentals of basketball, which makes it extremely difficult to guard.
God is love, and love is love.
New York is a Show Me state. We're like Missouri.
