Stephon Marbury

“I'm a max player. Don't get mad at me because I'm telling you what's real. One plus one is two, all day long, and it's never gonna change. And that's factorial.”

“All those places that I've played at is a preparation for me to come to Beijing.”

“Everyone starts the playoffs with the same record. It doesn't matter who won 70 games or whatever.”

“One person can't bring you to the playoffs or win a championship.”

“I'm a real Knick fan, not a fake fan.”

“China is home now.”

“What China has done for me, it was something that I needed. It wasn't something that I wanted.”

“It was a steppingstone. The NBA, for me, was preparation for me to do something someplace else.”

“I look at a guy like The Rock - how he started with his natural ability in sports but gravitated into Hollywood - as a model for what's possible.”

“I've always watched the NBA growing up.”

“I got so used to using chopsticks that using a fork and knife is weird.”

“I have three championships in a country where I don't speak the language.”

“New York basketball is about defense.”

“Carmelo Anthony is one of the best players in the NBA.”

“When I'm on the court in New York, I'm laying everything out. It means so much.”

“My heart is filled with love for my new extended family - the billion-plus people in China who have shown me nothing but unconditional love.”

“The 'New York Daily News' called me the most reviled athlete ever in sports history in New York. I don't listen to them.”

“I shoot to win because I shoot to win, and that's it.”

“When I went to Boston, I tell people all the time, being able to be in that arena with those banners hanging up, it excited me.”

“Going to a foreign country, winning championships, having a statue, getting a green card, the key to the city, a museum - that's not something I can say I could ever see happening.”