Iman Shumpert Quotes

"Some guys play so straight, and that may be their thing; like, a lot of guys are good playing like that. I can't play like that. I have to flair out. I have to yell. I gotta scream. I gotta talk trash - that's how I get myself going."

"I'm a people person. I'm a hugger."

"I think I am a good help defender as well as just bringing a lot of communication to the floor."

"I'm going to miss shots. I'm going to make plenty of mistakes. It's not going to be perfect."

"I never said to myself, 'Get to the NBA, be an All-Star, make a $100 million contract.'"

"I joke about it a lot, but I be serious as a heart attack when I say it: I don't wish that on nobody, not being able to play."

"I've been doing music for the longest time."

"I need music all the time - just to get my vibe where I want it."

"Keep feeding yourself with positivity."

"Ray Allen's diet was insane. He was trying to break it down to me what he ate and how disciplined he tries to stay. When you're a 21 year-old, you're not used to that. He was doing Paleo and experimenting with all types of things."

"Off the court, I think people will like me."

"I've been doing music since sixth grade."

"My job is to pay attention to the feel of the game and always add a positive energy to it on my team through the ups and downs of the game."

"When you have a lot of communication, it picks up the aggressiveness with everybody on the court."

"I'm a Kanye fan."

"As long as my daughter likes me, I'm good."

"I always enjoyed writing."

"I used to be an angry person."

"I'm a culture guy. I sort of know all the familiar ingredients to get something going. Once everyone starts to buy in collectively, then that culture can start being built."

"It's cool to be on a team where we don't know who's going to score it."

"It don't matter who scores; we just got to win."

"People sometimes think that if someone plays basketball, they have to do that one thing they're great at. But I like being able to show that you can do more than one thing and do it at a high level."

"I think that for my sport, the core is the most important. I mean, really in all sports, but especially in the sport I play, I keep my core right and try and keep that up no matter what I'm doing."

"I make sure I do a lot of core work in my training."

"I'm a Type A person who doesn't want to get stuck in any one type of workout. I need a variety of things to stay interested, and that way, you make sure you get the most out of yourself."

"When I was growing up, I didn't really have a lot of different things I could wear. As I got older, the more I could look different on an everyday basis, the better."

"My brother's been cutting my hair since I was in 7th grade."

"I don't like video games."

"I like Batman, I like basketball, and I like to rap."

"I wanted to go the NBA and win a championship because I've never seen a grown man cry the way Scottie Pippen and Michael Jordan cried when they won a championship."