Stephon Marbury
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.Collection: Respect
I give everybody respect. There's nobody in the NBA who I disrespect because on any given night, you're liable to get lit up.Collection: Respect
Consistency is always the best teacher.Collection: Best
When you're happy, and you're smiling people don't like that. That's why I smile all the time.Collection: Smile
My favorite point guard, growing up, was Magic Johnson. The reason why I say that is he was a winner, and he did everything in his power to make his teammates better. That's what the game is all about as a point guard.
I go on the court to win, and that is it.
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.
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.
Carmelo Anthony is one of the best players in the NBA.
My mission on this planet hasn't changed. I want to nurture the planet, to guide the planet, to help the planet.
I love the Chinese people.
Rucker is love.
I got so used to using chopsticks that using a fork and knife is weird.
The 'New York Daily News' called me the most reviled athlete ever in sports history in New York. I don't listen to them.
Nothing can compare to my experience in China. My situation is fortunate because I actually love it there, and I love it because of the people. For what they did to me, I'm forever invested into that country. Living there has been great for me and great for my life.
You've just got to win in China - that's it. Winning is like good deodorant. When you don't win, it's like you stink; you smell.
I would say my hardest opponent that I have to face has to be probably Rod Strickland. He's very strong. He's a guy who gets to the basket, and when his jump shot is on, it's really hard to stop him.
Everyone starts the playoffs with the same record. It doesn't matter who won 70 games or whatever.
I'm a black kid from the ghetto of Coney Island, Brooklyn, who only ever dreamed of playing in the NBA. So to have that dream come true but then go on this second journey in China... it's so far beyond anything that kid could have imagined.
Playing basketball is second nature to me; acting I found far more challenging.
I look at a guy like The Rock - how he started with his natural ability in sports but gravitated into Hollywood - as a model for what's possible.
China is home now.
With Starbury, we are trying to do something for the community and make a product that everyone can afford.
Playing basketball at MSG is a lot of fun when you are winning, but when you are not, it's not fun.
When you look at organizations that work, everyone is on the same page as far as what they are doing.
I think it's tough that we build Michael Vick up, and then we break him down. I think he's one of the superb athletes, and he's a good human being.
From what I hear, dogfighting is a sport. It's just behind closed doors.
When I get on the basketball court, there's not too many things I can't do.
The name of the game is put the ball in the hole.
When I was younger, I had a different disposition as far as how I wanted to live life.
Basketball's always been something that I loved.
It was a steppingstone. The NBA, for me, was preparation for me to do something someplace else.
People don't even know how hard it is to play in China. People think it is easy for the foreign players, but it is really not. It's difficult.
I have three championships in a country where I don't speak the language.
My numbers are Hall of Fame.
Whenever you've got an inside presence, it makes the game extremely easy.
I love Coney Island. I saw all different kinds of people - Russian, Italian, black, Puerto Rican, rich people in Sea Gate and in the co-ops. You'd see people in the co-ops or in the houses, and it was like, Man, I wish I could have this. I wish my mother and father could buy me this. Me being an independent thinker, I was like, I'm gonna get that.
College players make money for the colleges. You think they spend all that recruiting money to get the best students? Come on.
I learned more in that first year in the NBA than I could have in four years of college.
I was born in church. I was raised in church.
I'm a God-fearing man.
My Beijing jersey means more to me than any of them.
All those places that I've played at is a preparation for me to come to Beijing.
For me, my Beijing jersey will be the jersey that I will retire here in China.
I'm from the housing projects, where people can't afford $150 shoes.
Making a difference has always been most important to Starbury because it takes lots of care and thought to do so.
There's a difference when you want something and when you need something.
I shoot to win because I shoot to win, and that's it.
China is the best. Since I moved there, my life has been amazing. The best time of my life. Not even close. I guess this was how it was all supposed to go down.
Losing exposes character, and winning breeds it.