Stephen Jackson Quotes

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Stephen Jackson

Profession : Athlete

Birth : April 5, 1978

There's no time for being babies or being scared. If you're scared, go to church.

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I played quarterback, safety and receiver.

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I was raised that if I'm with you and we get in a fight, I'm going to help you. We're going down together. That's how it goes.

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I got a lot of respect for my OGs, so when they ask me to do something, I do it.

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My rookie year, Byron Scott didn't really want to sign me. In New Jersey, the New Jersey Nets. I got there, and Byron Scott didn't really like me, but they let me come to camp and I was having a great camp. Stephon Marbury embraced me.

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I grew up on Geto Boys and of course UGK, who put my hometown of Port Arthur, Texas, on the map. I was about Goodie Mob and OutKast too.

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If you are walking through the hood and you notice the cracks in the sidewalk where all the weeds, pebbles, dirt and grit settle in, that's me.

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I am going to be happy regardless where I am at as long as I am playing basketball with some guys that have the same common goal that I have, and that is to win.

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All the racial slurs I done heard. All the things I heard about my mom, and my basketball game and my kids, all this. It felt good to punch a fan one time.

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I'm from Texas, so we used to wear our pants starched down like a cowboy. So when I got to New York, to New Jersey, everybody was laughing at me like, 'Look at his pants! His pants could stand up by themselves!'

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Before 2 Chainz got big, he used to sleep on my couch.

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There's one thing that people will never know about Tim Duncan: Tim Duncan might know more UFC moves and more fighting moves than anybody in the UFC.

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I think Don King has always been an idiot in my mind. He's always been about money. I don't think he cares about anything else but himself.

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Anytime you want to take time off from a job that millions of brothers work so hard to get here, that's not being humble.

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God chose me for a reason. My momma tells me that every day. I know there's a million people who want to be in my shoes.

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I had a taste of a championship in San Antonio, and that was big for me. I cried when we won, and I hadn't cried in 10 years before that. It felt good, everything I'd been through, to say I was the champion at the end of the year.

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There's a lot of guys that play the game of basketball for the money, for the fame.

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I'm not stupid. I mean, I didn't go to college but I've got a lot of common sense.

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I'm never going to settle for losing.

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I'm a grown man. I have six kids. I'm married now. So I speak my mind.

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