Marvin Bagley III

“I don't want a label or a position to be put on me.”

“I just want people to see another side of me. People only see basketball because I'm on the court all the time. But they don't see where I grew up, what I've seen in my life, different things I've experienced that I don't share with people.”

“I want people to remember me as someone who came to play every night and gave it their all every time they stepped between the lines.”

“A lot of people see me just as a player. Music is how I introduce my life to people.”

“I'm private.”

“It's hard to choose just one favorite player because I like so many. If I had to narrow it down, my two favorites would be Kevin Durant & Blake Griffin.”

“I played with another big before in college with Wendell in college, a lot of high low action, a lot of different things that we picked up about each other's games.”

“Coming from high school and all my other middle schools, everybody that I was around played some type of sport. But going to Duke, I met people who played sports but also wanted to do things in business and technology and different things like that.”

“Me, as a person, I don't really open myself up to people a lot.”

“I'm excited to show the world, my team and my teammates everything I can do.”

“I'm just different. It's good to be different, not in a crazy way.”

“I remember when Lonzo and LaVar Ball first came out with Big Baller Brand and Lonzo's shoe, then LaMelo's shoe, everybody was bashing them for it and talking down on them for it. I kind of respected it, because it was different and it wasn't what everybody was doing.”

“I want to get better so bad to the point where, sometimes, I have to even step back and take a deep breath and kind of relax.”

“I want to be the greatest to ever play the game of basketball.”

“I wasn't always the biggest guy out there, muscle-wise, but I knew that every time I stepped out on the court, that I was going to play my hardest, no matter who I was going against. That's just the mindset I have when I go into games.”

“I want to play. I hate watching practices and watching games. I want to be out there with the guys.”

“It helps listening to J. Cole and Drake and rappers like that who talk about things that are going on in the world and in their lives. Listening to them inspires me to do the same. That drives me to want to tell stories that people aren't used to.”

“My favorite rapper is J.Cole. Drake, Logic and Chance the Rapper also. There's a lot.”

“Man, I love music. I love music.”

“I'm very appreciative of every offer of every school that offers me.”