Malcolm Jenkins Quotes

In a cornball way, I think being a celebrity is about making a difference, too.

If Hollywood stars speak out, so do all sorts of other people. Now Hollywood stars can get a better hearing.

I think we as celebrities have a lot more control.

Anything you can do to help someone, I just think it's so important because there's a lot of kids that look up athletes of all size and shapes in a lot of different fields, not necessarily in the basketball field. They get involved emotionally with those people because there's something about certain athletes that people rally around.

As footballers we have a massive platform that we should be using way more than we actually are.

Athletes have all the influence in the world. Everyone wants to hear what you have to say.

What I've realized recently is that the difference between me and Mickey Mouse is, there's not a man that can go and say, 'Look, can you get me in any faster? I'm Mickey Mouse.' Whereas I can go in and say, 'Look, could you get me a table faster? I'm Princess Leia.'

In every school, community center, city hall, and state capitol, there are women who are making their voices heard and standing up for the people they serve - women who aren't just demanding change but finding ways to create it. They are making an impact, and along the way, they're inspiring others to do the same.

I am trying to change the world.

It's a curious thing about celebrity: being somebody who was one of the stars of one of the most popular television shows in history offers an opportunity. I look at it as an ambassadorial opportunity at times, where I can go to places and have the opportunity to do things and meet people that other people don't have.

I can hardly think of any players that have really walked out of their own volition while there were still teams that really wanted them at a fair price.

When you have celebrity, it's a whole different thing than being an artist.

Your celebrity capital rises and falls in any given year. And when you have some - temporarily, usually - you try to use it for some good.

Obviously we were having an effect, because all these people were clamouring to meet us. Like Muhammad Ali, for instance.

It's a business. But as a player, it sucks to know you were just thrown into a trade for it to work.

The biggest thing about Snoop is, you gotta understand, everybody wants a piece of him. They want to touch him. They want to talk to him.

It's about being a voice in the community. There's so many ways to be a voice, and that's what I'm figuring out.

I'm pretty sure everyone in the country wants a bigger role if they're not a star player.

When you have a celebrity status, people feel inspired by you people. They start to emulate what you are doing. So it inspires me as a celebrity to do something which is for greater good.

People don't really understand how important our voices are. I think there's a lot of athletes that don't use their power that really should.

This should be a written rule: Guards should always defer to centers. I don't care how good you are, those big guys make the game so much easier for every other person on that team, and without them, everyone else needs to work twice as hard.

When you're famous, you have a certain sense of responsibility because so many people are looking at you for inspiration and for influence.

The way I see it, any attention I get, for whatever reason, just draws more eyes to the causes that I believe in.

Players can't really control where they go, can't control what a coach thinks of them or if a club wants to sell them.

Not a lot of teams take you into consideration, like a lot of teams can easily decide to if you're hurt or anything, make you go play.