Stephen Jackson Quotes

When I was playing I never wished I was doing anything else. I think being a professional athlete is the finest thing a man can do.

Baseball is not a lot of statistics to me. It's blood and tears.

Playing baseball was my dream, and no amount of money could sway my opinion.

Basketball is in my blood. It is my obligation to try.

I only deal in what is real. To be honest, I've never thought about what I could get out of football or where it would take me. I just wanted to play. I'm the same now.

I am and will always be a Laker for life.

I don't know anything else but the Lakers. This has certainly been more than a job for me as a player. It has certainly meant more to me than just an occupation.

I was going to fight for what I wanted first, and that was being in L.A. and being a Laker. L.A. was the first place that came to my mind. That's where my heart was at.

I could have gone professional, but I'm not giving up on my dream.

Baseball was one-hundred percent of my life.

I'm a basketball guy. No sitcom guy. I don't care about all that jazz. I care about basketball. It's not me. And I stayed with what I did, and I'm very proud that I did that because I make a great living and I'm lucky and I get to be involved with the thing I truly love, and that's the game of basketball.

I love Milwaukee, I love the fans, the city - it works hard, I work hard and I've always done that since the first day I decided to play basketball.

I love guys who have roots. Paul Pierce has roots embedded in Boston.

My deal, I want to be the best to ever play the game and I try to bring that same energy for my team, laying it all on the line for them.

Ever since I was growing up, I knew I was going to play in the NFL. I never thought anything else.

Physically and mentally, it's quite hard. But I'm playing cricket for England. It's what I dream about doing.

I want to play for England, I wear my heart on my sleeve, and I give it everything I can, not just for me but for my team-mates as well.

I think at the end of the day, even though I didn't win a Super Bowl ring, I felt like I backed them up for drafting me. I backed up the San Diego Chargers for picking me with the fifth pick.

The advice I will give my children, if and when they have Olympic aspirations, will be to go for it.

I'll give my heart and soul whenever I step on that field and even when I'm on the sidelines. And at the end of the day, that's really all you can ask of someone.

I want to be best golfer in the world. But I feel like golf is not everything in my life, but I want to keep doing it, keep working hard, do the best I can on the tour and give back to the tour.

The important thing about a sport is the people who devote their lives to it.

I don't wish I did anything differently. The most important thing to me was to play baseball.

I want to be an NBA all-star and help my team win. That's what it's all about, is winning. I'm a competitor... People said a lot about me being selfish and stuff like that. Getting into the league, I can't wait to shut that down. I'm a guy who wants to play and to win and love my teammates.

I had sacrificed my entire life to play football.