Stephen Jackson quotes

“I got fined for talking to myself.”
-- Stephen Jackson

Source : "Bobcats' Jackson fined $50,000 for verbal abuse". www.foxnews.com. November 6, 2010.

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“The best day of my life was when I turned 25. That's the day my car insurance went down. Yeah, boy, I saved $1,200 that day.”
-- Stephen Jackson

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“It's been kind of hard, I'm labeled as a jerk right now, you know what I mean? But I love it. I've been a jerk all my life. My momma loves this jerk. My kids love this jerk. I'm going to be a jerk in a good way, though. I'm going to be a jerk to the other teams and just go out there and play basketball. I can do that.”
-- Stephen Jackson

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“As bad as I disagreed on stuff, I wanted to get a technical foul, but I didn't. When guys on the team see me get technical fouls, it tends to trickle down to the team. I just took it and dealt with it.”
-- Stephen Jackson

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“I have no problem dressing up . . . because I know I'm a nice-looking guy. But as far as chains, I definitely feel that's a racial statement. Almost 100% of the guys in the league who are young and black wear big chains. So I definitely don't agree with that at all.”
-- Stephen Jackson

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“I make love to pressure.”
-- Stephen Jackson

Source : "Jackson gets his collect call" by Ric Bucher, www.espn.com. July 13, 2004.

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“There's the South Pole, said Christopher Robin, and I expect there's an East Pole and a West Pole, though people don't like talking about them.”

“Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.”

“Producing a photographic document involves preparation in excess. There is first the examination of the idea of the project. Then the visits to the scene, the casual conversations, and more formal interviews - talking, and listening, and looking, looking. ... And finally, the pictures themselves, each one planned, talked, taken and examined in terms of the whole.”

Source : Aaron Siskind, Maricia Battle, Ann Banks, Federal Writers' Project, National Museum of American Art (U.S.) (1990). “Harlem photographs, 1932-1940”, Smithsonian Inst Pr

“My life isn't necessarily more important than anyone else's: I'm just better in talking about it.”

“I got the sense that Alabama is a place where people don't want handouts and don't much care for people talking out of the side of their mouth.”

Source : "An Open Letter to the State of Alabama" by Adam McKay, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 10, 2010.

“I wasn't a bad guy. I just wanted God to give me a second chance.”

“My whole thing was, just being me. Now, you look around the NBA and all of them have tattoos, guys wearing cornrows. Now you see the police officers with the cornrows. I took a beating for those types of things.”

Source : "No more practice for A.I.: Allen Iverson says goodbye to Philadelphia" by Bryan Armen Graham, www.theguardian.com. October 31, 2013.

“I take everything I learned from the streets and put it in my NBA game.”

“I want to return to the NBA this season, and help any team that wants me, in any capacity that they feel that I can help. I'm disappointed.”

“The American attitude is 'We're the best'. That's why the NBA guys who come from other countries, the Europeans, all sort of stick together away from the game.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.