Jalen Rose Quotes

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Jalen Rose

Profession : Athlete

Birth : January 30, 1973

When the things in front of you in life reveal how messed up the system is, you lose faith in the system pretty quickly. You develop a contrarian attitude. Your instinct is to disagree with the status quo and then, if you can, to try and shake it up.

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Let's face it: if you're an elite basketball player and you choose to be socially and politically active, it could harm your brand.

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I don't hang with people I don't know. Outsiders can mess up your flow.

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But the best revenge for naysayers is living well. And living well is doing your job and taking care of your family.

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I want my media to be raw and uncut, and I want to articulate it in a spectacular, vernacular Detroit style.

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I love hearing the gym shoes squeak.

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My father, Jimmy Walker, was the first pick in the 1967 draft, but I never met him. He passed in 2007. I found out about him in middle school. I was old enough to understand who he was, where he went to college, and what his game was about. Older players like Bill Russell and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar have come up to me to talk about him.

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When you're educated, it allows you to be more worldly. It's more than just what happens in a classroom.

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Most of the time, before you get traded, there are rumblings. I wasn't totally surprised that I was going to get traded - I anticipated it happening. And I wasn't surprised that I got traded to the Knicks, either.

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The idea of playing the point and leading a team to the NBA championship is what drove me to get up every day and work on my game as a kid.

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I felt I could have been the kind of player Denver needed, but there were too many things going on with the team.

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Nobody talks about it. But everyone knows that if you signed at Michigan or UNLV, you were viewed one way. If you signed at Duke or Indiana, you were viewed another way.

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I realize everything's on me as far as what kind of player, person, and student I'm going to be.

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Michigan is a proud university.

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I'd just shoot until I got tired. I wanted to improve my outside shooting and my ball handling. I wanted to improve everything.

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I want to be a guy who helps the team a lot of different ways.

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I've always been a big-time Scottie Pippen fan. That was my guy growing up!

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People don't realize this, but throughout my career, I grew up patterning my game after Scottie Pippen's. I admire him for his versatility.

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I've always gotten a kick out of leading my team in assists.

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