Stephen Jackson

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

“That's the definition of a teammate, being together, being there for your teammate.”

“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.”

“When things are not fair, I speak my mind.”

“It's easy to go out there and fight and scratch and play and sweat and bleed for guys that you consider your friends, your brothers.”

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

“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.”

“I say what I want to say when I feel like it, regardless of what the consequence is.”

“People don't understand how it feels to be with a guy who you call your teammate and you're with more than your family during the course of a season.”

“My job's to play basketball. My job's not to be here to be friends with anybody.”

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

“Kobe can play in any league.”

“I leave everything in God's hands and continue to work on playing basketball.”

“No, I get techs because I want to; I don't care. I'm not getting techs for no reason. It happens.”

“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.”

“I've never been a guy not to speak my mind and I guess people don't like that.”

“I've been at the bottom. I've lost loved ones, I've lost best friends, but that's part of life. I don't hide that.”

“I never met a dollar that could change me. Been the same guy since day one.”

“If you really love something, you gonna do it until you can't do it no more. And that's how I feel about basketball.”

“The best part of my career was being able to play with a lot of guys from different countries, different places, different races. That was the best part about it.”