Quotes from Jabari Parker

I don't aspire to be the richest man.

I'm never satisfied.

Really, I've been set up for a good position where Duke is setting me up for a lot of exposure, and it's part of my responsibility to show up for them because the team that we have, I play a really vital role.

Mostly in high school, when peer pressure took its big hold on me, that's when I started getting into my faith, and that helped me out so much.

I look at myself as one of the silly, goofy kids that walks around the halls and has fun. I'm just like everybody else.

I'm the type of person, I don't like to make a big deal out of problems.

The NBA is the biggest dream of basketball players, and I'm no different.

I don't think a lot of people consider golf a sport. It's kind of a leisure event. I would like to play. And I'd like to learn how to shoot a bow and arrow.

Black Lives Matter and police brutality are issues that are important to me.

No matter how far I get into my career, even if I get hurt again, it's just a part of who I am. On the flip, I'm a warrior, I'm a soldier, I get up. As many times as I fell, I've still gotten up, and that's way more rewarding to me than any other thing that I've ever accomplished, and I'm proud of that.

I wanted to be like Juwan Howard, whose basketball camp I went to as kid for six years. Those camps meant everything to me and my friends. We'd all seen Juwan on TV and then... there he was. In our gym. We could see him. We could give him a high five.

My mother didn't get her citizenship until much later in life.

When it comes to me not supporting Donald Trump, it's pretty much correlated to the things he has said.

You don't need a ton of moves to get to where you want to be. You don't have to expend energy in a wasteful way. That doesn't mean not playing hard. It means playing smart.

I can't be complacent and have to be aggressive. Sometimes I can be too nonchalant in a game.

You don't want to endorse hate; you don't want to endorse racism. You don't want to support controversy.

Kids are cruel.

You've got to stay in the weight room because those type of exercises relieve stress and tension. It's just like a stretch, when you do weight-lifting programs and regimens.

You can't know who you are unless you know where you came from and give praise to those who laid the foundation.

I always pray before the game. I have a big-time belief in that. It just gives me that extra boost, the confidence, the faith that I'm going to play and be safe.

My parents, they come from different backgrounds. They don't even value money.

I loved being poor, because it teaches you humility.

My role is what I make it to be. That's just playing the right way, being a good teammate and hopefully everything else takes care of itself.

On the Sabbath, I'm supposed to focus on Jesus and the resurrection. But if I don't practice, I let the team down. I don't want my teammates to think that I think I'm special.