Jabari Parker Quotes

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Jabari Parker

Profession : Basketball Player

Birth : March 15, 1995

On the Sabbath, I'm supposed to focus on Jesus and the resurrection. But if I don't practice, I let the team down. I don't want my teammates to think that I think I'm special.

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I'm trying to be a throwback player and only stick with one team.

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I don't look for anything about fame.

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It was always a goal of mine to be in the NBA.

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I never support it when people want to play it safe.

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The great players always have that one older player, that one vet they competed against who was older.

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Without my church, without my teaching of good morals, I wouldn't be the Jabari that I am today. It's the foundation that my family stands on. If we do things on a consistent basis that are positive, it'll all work out.

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When you grow up where healthy food isn't easily accessible, you eat a lot of processed food and whatever else is available - McDonalds, fast food, cheap food.

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I'm a man of habit.

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You've got to stay in the weight room because those type of exercises relieve stress and tension. It's just like a stretch, when you do weight-lifting programs and regimens.

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Sleep is so essential.

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My parents, they come from different backgrounds. They don't even value money.

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I don't put stuff out in the media. I don't do that.

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I focus on the team.

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I played a lot of 4. Even in high school.

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A lot of people say I do play like Carmelo Anthony. That's just a great saying of my game.

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No matter how far I get into my career, even if I get hurt again, it's just a part of who I am. On the flip, I'm a warrior, I'm a soldier, I get up. As many times as I fell, I've still gotten up, and that's way more rewarding to me than any other thing that I've ever accomplished, and I'm proud of that.

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People in life have those issues - ups and downs - and I'm just a trailblazer to show whatever you do, you always get up. No matter how far you fall, you always get up.

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I deal with expectations by not putting myself higher than the team.

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I know nobody likes practice, nobody enjoys it, but you have to build some type of excitement and expectation and learn something.

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