Jabari Parker
Old cars have things to say. With an old car, you have to be extra observant about everything. You have to listen and pay attention - to how the engine sounds, where the oil levels are at, if it's running hot, all of that. You've gotta be tuned in, and I like that. New cars, to me they just feel like plain sheets of metal.Collection: Car
I want to be just like Michael Jordan. Chicago greats get noticed around the city. People have a lot of respect for them. I look up to those guys a lot. I want to be part of that family.Collection: Respect
Mostly in high school, when peer pressure took its big hold on me, that's when I started getting into my faith, and that helped me out so much.
I want to show good sportsmanship.
You know I'm a Chicago kid, and Chicago will always have a big piece of my heart. But with Milwaukee - for me it was just love at first sight. As soon as I got here, I was like, Wow, this is the place for me.
Milwaukee, man... it's home.
We carry home with us, all the good and the bad and the in-between.
Going back and getting my degree is something that I promised myself and my mom the day I called her and my dad to tell them that I was entering the draft. Not a lot of people in my family can say they got a college diploma, so I want to do that - for them and for me.
I know what it was like to grow up in Chicago and see the same problems every day.
Black Lives Matter and police brutality are issues that are important to me.
I wanted to be like Juwan Howard, whose basketball camp I went to as kid for six years. Those camps meant everything to me and my friends. We'd all seen Juwan on TV and then... there he was. In our gym. We could see him. We could give him a high five.
As a basketball player, you dream of being able to play in front of your hometown. And if you're lucky, other guys from your city are right there beside you.
I believe that if you love what you do, and you work hard at it, everything falls in place.
Yeah, I've had injuries.
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.
I'm lucky to have the support and the platform I have, and I plan on making the most of it.
We might all come from different places, but home means something - something powerful - to each of us.
Look at everybody in the league. They don't pay players to play defense.
I've scored 30s and 20s off of guys who say they try to play defense.
We're professionals, everybody scores. It's just a matter of limiting them as much as you can and trying to contain them.
I love sleep. I find sleep to be a hobby.
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.
I love spilling my creativity on paper. I just draw.
I want to always serve other people. It could be the youngest guy in the gym that looks up to me or the oldest fella. I just want to be there for them.
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.
I try to fulfill my role and my responsibility as much as I can.
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.
If I can't defend my opponent and if he scores as much I'm scoring then he won the matchup.
When you really struggle at one thing, you don't take it for granted.
Kids are cruel.
You don't want to endorse hate; you don't want to endorse racism. You don't want to support controversy.
I was named after a Muslim.
When it comes to me not supporting Donald Trump, it's pretty much correlated to the things he has said.
My mother is basically an immigrant because she came from Tonga.
Basketball is not who I am; it's what I do.
Everybody knows I hate attention.
I'm always looking toward the next game. You're only as good as your last one. That keeps me going.
I'm never satisfied.
You can't know who you are unless you know where you came from and give praise to those who laid the foundation.
I really want to be a philanthropist.
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.
I think people know about my love for cars - my infatuation for cars.
I'm just always around my cars. My favorite brand is Cadillac.
I really wasn't a guy that idolizes fame and self-glorification.
I think what I wanted mostly to experience in college is playing college basketball and learning.
Really, I've been set up for a good position where Duke is setting me up for a lot of exposure, and it's part of my responsibility to show up for them because the team that we have, I play a really vital role.
That's what drives me, just to be there for my team.
I don't care what haters think - I'm proud to not stay in Trump hotels.
I don't support someone who endorses hate on other people.
My mother didn't get her citizenship until much later in life.