Quotes About Identity

I am not merely a baseball player. I am a black man who has done what he wants, gotten what he wanted, and will continue to get it.

My career as Nipsey Hussle is based on my life as Ermias Asghedom.

I had an idea of what I thought was funny. It's kind of based on how I am.

I grew up on army bases all over the world, but I'm from Alabama.

Basically, I've been dressing the same way since I was 10 years old.

I've basically thought of myself as a writer, whether I was or not.

Coming out of college, you never really know how good you are, you've never played for money, you've put all your eggs in one basket and your whole life revolves around it. For a while, I didn't think I was going to be good enough.

With me and basketball, it became part of me.

My kids know who I am on the basketball court, but at the end of the day, it doesn't matter about the basketball. I am their dad, and that is all that matters.

I always wanted to present myself well and express my style with my clothes, as well as who I was as a basketball player.

I want people to say that an African basketball player is the best player in the whole world.

Being a great basketball player is only part of who you are.

I've been a dunker for longer than I've been a basketball player.

I'm not a political man. I'm a basketball player. So that's what I have to do first. But second, I will try to help my country because I am a Croatian.

People will come up to me and want to take pictures with me because I'm Lauren's husband, and not a basketball player.

I try to envision what life is after basketball, but I just see myself working out and just being a basketball player still.

At the end of the day, you're a person before you are a basketball player.

I've spent too much of my life being made to feel like there's something wrong with me. And no matter how much support I felt as a basketball player at Baylor, it still doesn't erase all the pain I felt there.

I was a big Drum and Bass junkie when I grew up.

I consider myself a bassist first.

I wasn't bat mitzvahed.

When I was a kid, I dreamed of using a bat with my own name on it.

I know what makes me good, and it's not a bat.

Maybe because I didn't have a huge film career right off the bat, I've been able to create something different, which is so important to me. That's myself, my idea of who I am.