Quotes from Stephen Jackson

I got a lot of respect for my OGs, so when they ask me to do something, I do it.

I'm never going to settle for losing.

I'm a sexy guy, you know?

The Bay Area has become my second home since I arrived here in 2007 and I can't accurately describe how good it feels to be wanted and appreciated by an organization. The Warriors - from Chris Cohan, Robert Rowell, Chris Mullin and Coach Nelson to the last person working in the front office - have embraced me since Day One.

My job's to play basketball. My job's not to be here to be friends with anybody.

I went to Golden State and helped them get to the playoffs my first year there, and they haven't been to the playoffs in 13 years. I played in Charlotte... and I got them to the playoffs. So, every team I go to, I make them better.

I'm not stupid. I mean, I didn't go to college but I've got a lot of common sense.

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

It's easy to go out there and fight and scratch and play and sweat and bleed for guys that you consider your friends, your brothers.

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 am Port Arthur. I'm the president of Port Arthur.

Before 2 Chainz got big, he used to sleep on my couch.

I had a taste of a championship in San Antonio, and that was big for me. I cried when we won, and I hadn't cried in 10 years before that. It felt good, everything I'd been through, to say I was the champion at the end of the year.

Responsibilities have weighed on me my whole life.

I never met a dollar that could change me. Been the same guy since day one.

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!

I never thought I would be in a situation where I would have to go into the stands and actually help my teammate fight fans. But at that time, there's no way I could have lived with myself knowing that my teammate is in the stands fighting and I'm not helping him.

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.

People don't understand how it feels to be with a guy who you call your teammate and you're with more than your family during the course of a season.

That's the definition of a teammate, being together, being there for your teammate.

I'm going to support my teammates. I'm a team guy.

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.

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.

I don't want to be fake.