Quotes from Stephon Marbury

Consistency is always the best teacher.

I give everybody respect. There's nobody in the NBA who I disrespect because on any given night, you're liable to get lit up.

I drink life's happy water, which is bottled at the divine source.

I've been through a lot of different things, experienced a lot of different things.

I'm a real Knick fan, not a fake fan.

My on-court temperament is totally to just win and destroy.

I'm from the housing projects, where people can't afford $150 shoes.

I still want to see the Knicks do well; I do. I promise I do. That's my team. After all the stuff that happened, people say to me, 'You still like the Knicks?' Well, that's just the way it is. That's what happens when you're a kid. Your team is your team, and everything is die-hard.

My favorite point guard, growing up, was Magic Johnson. The reason why I say that is he was a winner, and he did everything in his power to make his teammates better. That's what the game is all about as a point guard.

Coming to Beijing, throughout all of what has happened and the success I have gained, I look at it as I was just fortunate and blessed.

When you're a good person, good things happen to you.

I love Coney Island. I saw all different kinds of people - Russian, Italian, black, Puerto Rican, rich people in Sea Gate and in the co-ops. You'd see people in the co-ops or in the houses, and it was like, Man, I wish I could have this. I wish my mother and father could buy me this. Me being an independent thinker, I was like, I'm gonna get that.

Me playing for the Knicks is not realistic.

My numbers are Hall of Fame.

College players make money for the colleges. You think they spend all that recruiting money to get the best students? Come on.

When I went to Boston, I tell people all the time, being able to be in that arena with those banners hanging up, it excited me.

I had to deal with so many haters.

The name of the game is put the ball in the hole.

A panther is quick and smart and always alert to everything. He's sitting on top of a mountain, with the sun and the clouds. That's where I want to see myself.

Over the years, I'll admit, I lost the love for basketball a little bit.

I'm a black kid from the ghetto of Coney Island, Brooklyn, who only ever dreamed of playing in the NBA. So to have that dream come true but then go on this second journey in China... it's so far beyond anything that kid could have imagined.

Nothing can compare to my experience in China. My situation is fortunate because I actually love it there, and I love it because of the people. For what they did to me, I'm forever invested into that country. Living there has been great for me and great for my life.

My Beijing jersey means more to me than any of them.

For me, my Beijing jersey will be the jersey that I will retire here in China.