Quotes from Stephon Marbury

I play basketball; I actually like the triangle. It opens things up if you know how to move without the ball and know how to cut. That's the game you learn in high school and younger - pass, cut - basically the fundamentals of basketball, which makes it extremely difficult to guard.

When you're happy, and you're smiling people don't like that. That's why I smile all the time.

I got so used to using chopsticks that using a fork and knife is weird.

When I was younger, I had a different disposition as far as how I wanted to live life.

For me, it's vital to continue to share my experiences and allow my experiences to help the younger generation.

I could play ball all day. That's all I want to do.

It was a steppingstone. The NBA, for me, was preparation for me to do something someplace else.

You leave America, then you go someplace else, you begin to create something totally different.

Jeanie Buss - I love her with all my heart. I'd take my heart out and give it to her. That's how ill she is. I love that lady.

I always watched Michael Jordan and Magic Johnson, and I said I could be playing on the court with them.

I've been defending myself since I left Minnesota. Because I didn't comply to what they wanted, then it was like, 'Oh, I'm selfish. I'm this. I'm that.' I'm like, 'How can that be? You were just about to give me $71 million! Who gives someone $71 million, and they're selfish, and they're jealous of Kevin Garnett and all of this stupid stuff?'

New York is a Show Me state. We're like Missouri.

I look at a guy like The Rock - how he started with his natural ability in sports but gravitated into Hollywood - as a model for what's possible.

My heart is filled with love for my new extended family - the billion-plus people in China who have shown me nothing but unconditional love.

Going to a foreign country, winning championships, having a statue, getting a green card, the key to the city, a museum - that's not something I can say I could ever see happening.

You've just got to win in China - that's it. Winning is like good deodorant. When you don't win, it's like you stink; you smell.

It's the Basketball Hall of Fame, not the NBA Hall of Fame. So, for basketball, I played in Olympics; I played in the Junior Olympics. With what I've done and given to basketball is all Hall of Fame.

I would say my hardest opponent that I have to face has to be probably Rod Strickland. He's very strong. He's a guy who gets to the basket, and when his jump shot is on, it's really hard to stop him.

When you look at organizations that work, everyone is on the same page as far as what they are doing.

I want to make sure that people can always have affordable shoes to wear.

For me, I love the path that I have taken on. I take all of my experiences; I eliminate all of the bad and take all of the positive.

I think going to another country and being able to evolve past my thinking and what actually went on in America was a little bit different from what athletes experience here in America.

When I'm on the court in New York, I'm laying everything out. It means so much.

I always wanted the Acura Legend Coupe.