Stephen Jackson

It's hard for any man to take something thrown at his face and not to retaliate.

I don't want to be fake.

Being from the South, I was really into Southern rap, but I listened to a lot of stuff from all over.

In some crazy sort of way, if I died helping a teammate or a friend or someone that I love, I think I could live with it. My family probably couldn't, but I think I could.

But I'm going to play with the same passion and desire every night, and nobody's going to change that. Not referees. Nobody.

I love playing basketball more than I love getting fined and getting suspended.

I love wearing my jewelry.

I love the fact that players have control of where they want to play.

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.

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.

Responsibilities have weighed on me my whole life.

In San Antonio when I was asked to say other players were better than me to help their confidence so they can play better, that was the most disrespectful thing that I've ever heard from any coach in my life.