Mark Jackson

“I never try to take shortcuts.”

“If you ask me if I could pick one coach that I never played for to be my head coach for a season, it would be Coach John Thompson.”

“God needs me to impact as many people as I can.”

“Steph Curry is a great basketball player, but he's not Magic Johnson. And it'd be unfair to ask Steph Curry to be Magic Johnson the same way it'd be unfair to ask Magic Johnson to be Steph Curry.”

“I'm going to do my job to the best of my ability.”

“If you came to my church, you would say, 'He cries every week.' I'm an emotional guy.”

“I'm a guy with tremendous faith.”

“I never went around beating people in the head with a Bible.”

“One thing I live by, you make a mistake, you own it.”

“I certainly believe I am capable of being a head coach or running a team. The bottom line is surrounding yourself with people who are smarter than you.”

“To live my life, to have played 17 years in the NBA, to have coached for three years for a team, and to have the privilege to call NBA games and announce the NBA Finals, I am absolutely winning.”

“I've been coaching all my life.”

“The more God in me, the more sensitive I become and the more I appreciate people in my life.”

“I have tremendous faith and trust that things happen for a reason. If I didn't I would have lost my mind a long time ago.”

“I thank God for the platform I have.”

“I believe the power of life and death is in the tongue.”

“If you want to bring out the best in Stephon Marbury, you can't ask him to be Jason Kidd. Just like if you are coaching Jason Kidd, don't ask him to be Stephon Marbury, because you are just going to expose him.”

“I humbly submit to you, if you've got a problem with me as a person, then it's your problem.”

“I played for some of the best guys to ever coach this game, a bunch of Hall of Famers, and I've stolen from them, the same way I've stolen from the great point guards in the past.”

“I love Jason Kidd and he is an all-time great, but the way Steve Nash is playing the point guard position is absolutely incredible. I've said it on-the-air, he is the best point guard I have ever seen play the pick and roll. He is a true maestro. When you look at what he is doing, you just have to shake your head.”