A biography for Marvin Bagley IIIhasn’t been written yet.
“Music has been a part of my life for as long as I can remember.”
“I may expect too much from myself.”
“I have a lot of stuff that I'm good at and I want to get to the point where I don't have to think about it, where it comes naturally to me.”
“I would want to have dinner with Michael Jordan, because he's the best ever and I would love to hear advice from him directly to me about how I could become the best ever.”
“Not a lot of players fight to get the ball. When they see it bounce whatever way, they don't give the extra effort to go get it. I think that's kind of what separates me. It's just that competitive nature in me.”
“I started at 4 or 5 just writing random things down in my notebooks and making up raps. Finding words that rhyme and putting them together.”
“I'm just trying to learn every day, become a better student of the game.”
“I just want to get on the court and develop, wherever that might be.”
“It's the best decision I've made in my whole life, to come here and to play for Coach K and the coaching staff here at Duke.”
“I put a lot of work into it and I'm glad that I'll be able to show it with Sacramento.”
“I'm confident in what I can do. I know what I can do on the court.”
“It's kind of hard for me to take failure.”
“Coach K has been really honest with me in film, telling me when I'm messing up, telling me when I'm doing something good. Just teaching every single day about different defensive stuff, offensive stuff.”
“I used to write little rhyming words on the paper. I'd start rapping them at home, when I'd finish my homework. I had to do homework before everything else. I did homework, then I could play basketball, then I could rap.”
“You never want to come in last.”
“To be able to play in Phoenix, to have it all come full circle, from where I started playing basketball to be there as a professional, it would be a dream come true.”
“I think if you're good at something and you're able to take your talent to the next level, you should be able to do that.”
“I've heard a lot of people say I'm not a team guy, I don't do well with my teammates. People talk about defense. People always have something to say.”
“I just try and take it one day at a time and that's been helping me out a lot, not thinking ahead too far, not thinking about yesterday, just focusing on what I need to get done throughout the day.”
“At the end of the day, it was my decision to do the things that I've been through and the places I've been.”