A biography for Stephen Jacksonhasn’t been written yet.
“I came into the NBA not looking at it as a job but the same way I did when I was playing at the Y. I was just getting a paid a lot of money to do it, that's all.”
“I was the best basketball player, the only thing good in my hometown so everybody did everything for me.”
“Nobody wants to play the game more than Kawhi. Nobody wants to be great or go down as one of the greatest more than Kawhi. So his heart and his passion and if he wants to play basketball should never be questioned.”
“I want to be part of a team that wants to win. Guys that are trusting each other, guys that don't mind playing hard.”
“If I were LeBron, I would have gone to Chicago or I would have stayed home and showed a little more loyalty to my city and my team. But I'm not LeBron.”
“Responsibilities have weighed on me my whole life.”
“At the end of the day, if you're not against racism, you're racist.”
“I couldn't afford to go to the record store to buy new tapes, so I'd tape everything off the radio. Just hit record when my song came on. I used to take my mom's tapes and tape over them. I had a nice little collection. Had my own Stephen Jackson mixtapes off the radio!”
“You have to listen to the people who employ you.”
“George Karl's son probably wouldn't have made it to the NBA if he wasn't a coach. He would have never got the opportunity.”
“I partied too much. I was still 19, 20 years old. I was coming from a little small city where there's 40,000 people, so being in New Jersey, New York, being with a big All-Star like Stephon Marbury, he's calling me every night to go out with him. I didn't know how to say no.”
“Me personally, I can take getting beat, if it's about basketball. But when it gets to the point where you're being personal, and being disrespectful as a man to another man, that's when I have a problem.”
“First, I don't talk to Derek Fisher. He's not my type of guy.”
“If you are walking through the hood and you notice the cracks in the sidewalk where all the weeds, pebbles, dirt and grit settle in, that's me.”
“I got a lot of respect for my OGs, so when they ask me to do something, I do it.”
“Mike Brown is a guy I definitely respect.”
“I just wanted to be around a positive organization that's used to winning and plays the game the right way. Milwaukee, they're not used to winning. I just wasn't going to go for it at the end of my career.”
“I love playing basketball more than I love getting fined and getting suspended.”
“A lot of people think I'm just an athletic thug.”
“I wasn't the greatest at school, so I studied basketball.”