Stephon Marbury Quotes (75 Quotes)

The way our luck has been going, I'm not surprised. If this had been during the six-game winning streak (in January), when it was really fun, I would probably say, 'Nah, it wouldn't go in.' But everybody gets their day. It just wasn't our day.

That hurt everything. That hurt my whole pride.

What everybody needs to realize is that when he came into this, he inherited a 100 plus million (payroll). He didn't start it. He came into this situation. He's trying to do what he can do to make it work. It was a problem before he got here.

Every day we're talking about what I'm doing and Coach, and I'm a stiff because I didn't take the last shot. It seems like everything is being pushed away from what's really going on. What's really going on is we're a bad basketball team and we're trying to get better. I know, I'm used to being the scapegoat, but ... When is enough going to be enough.

We haven't played well much at all of late. They pretty much did whatever they wanted to do in the second half.

It was a dirty pick. I knew I was hurt when I went back in and I couldn't get my arms up without any pain.

I'm just saying, he has to understand how I feel.

We're making the playoffs. I'm guaranteeing that. We're going to make the playoffs.

He told me he could do whatever he wants with this franchise and that he don't want to trade me. And that he wanted me to be here and that everything that basically went on throughout the last week was over with.

I told him, 'You've got to do that if you could get a guy like Kobe. But he said that he didn't want to trade me and then get back junk. So, we're both on the same page.

When we get it going and when we figure it out, we'll be tough to stop. That's a fact. I don't see too many guards that will want to see us every night.

I guess Coach felt like the team that was out there was doing the job, and them guys were, I always want to be on the court.

In five years, he'll be the best point guard in the game. Hands down.

I see the kids, ... and I just think about my kids. You see babies floating in the river. We complain about the littlest things. I mean, we're so fortunate for so many reasons we can breathe, we can walk. It's not even about money. It's more about everybody's responsibility. This is about how you treat people. To see this every day, you know that this is going on and you got people, they don't care about it.

I think the fans understand what I mean to the team. I think when we were losing (earlier), they weren't seeing me play the way they normally see me play so they can't appreciate it.

We just don't play consistent enough.

Tonight, we didn't compete at all as far as trying to win the game. I cannot explain that. I know we can't go into games playing how we played today.

We played well tonight as a team. We did all we needed to get the win. ... We followed the game plan.

We were acting like we were strangers on the court. Now everybody's talking. Even when our game plan isn't going the way we want it to go, we're still getting by because guys are communicating.

I'm going to let the trainers give me that evaluation with Coach's input. If they say they think that's the best thing, then I'm going to do that.

We can't win. That's it. We've just got to continue to come out and play hard from the beginning of the game. In the middle of the game, and at the end of the game, we pick it up. We can't keep allowing teams to come out right away and get the jump on us.

It's something that's just going to take time to heal and get better.

I got a heart murmur, ... All athletes have heart murmurs. They told me one time in college I wasn't going to be able to play. I still have it. My heart skips a beat sometimes. You get it checked out, they say, 'Hey, you have a heart murmur.'

We showed we know how to win. We did everything we were supposed to do. We got the rebounds, we executed, we made our free throws and we got the hustle plays . . . We were very resilient and we played with a lot of heart. We didn't want to lose, and it showed.

We've settled in as far as who's going to be out there on the court. Guys are getting familiar with what we have to do to win games.

It adds another player that can play. We have two explosive guards. We have two guards that can score at any time.

Why don't we concentrate on what's really going on, like our record Everybody's got this big hype about Coach and I. Let's deal with the real problem with what's going on. Us two are not the problem. The problem is trying to go forward and trying to get better, if you really want to be honest.

They know how to play and they play with a great deal of confidence. Whenever you onto the basketball court with that kind of confidence, you never feel like you're going to lose.

I want to play basketball in New York. I love New York and I believe New York loves me. I'm just going to continue to do what this man asking me to do.

I'm dying to get back on the court, excited. I think what the guys went through, as far as playing without me, was a tough task. They learned that we definitely have to play more together and play with way more effort. We didn't play like we were playing when we were winning ... I think I can help.

We were a little more poised. Coach talked about us getting a shot every time down the court - a good shot. That is what he wanted us to do and we went out and did it.

We definitely have to make our push. Right now is the time for us to make a push.

I never hang my head.

I don't even really have an answer for you. Right now, as far as for the way we're playing, we're going backwards, we're not going forward.

We still don't have a foundation down. We're 50-some games in and every day we're doing something different.

I was kind of tired tonight, but I play. When I get on the court that is all I do. I love basketball. Mentally, I just had to get my mind in another place.

Shaq being in foul trouble, that helped us. That's pretty much it.

We got away from what we were doing in the beginning of the game. We stopped moving the ball and they started to make some plays. It just wasn't there. Some nights, you just don't have it.

Coach is not giving up on us, he's coming every day and doing the same things. He's not getting kicked out of games. He's staying right there with us.

We just wanted to get off that losing streak. Everybody came out focused and ready to play on both ends of the court. It was great. We were very aggressive tonight.

I think it's personal. I don't think it's about basketball any more.

It didn't put no doubt in my mind. I think that he's coming back.

David knows his role. When he goes on the basketball court, he doesn't try to do anything he can't do. He just plays within himself. And when he gets on the court he brings energy.

We had some turnovers and foul shots that hurt us. This is a game you want to get away with before a road trip. But if we go out there and play with a lot of poise and play smarter than we did today, we can be successful.

We didn't sit down and talk yet. He's been busy with physicals and stuff like that. I think we're both eager to play with each other. For the most part, when we get on the basketball court, we'll just basically read each other. Like I said, it's a positive. There aren't any negatives at all.

Definitely, it's a loss. One thing he touched on, and it's something I've been thinking about it the last two years, is that eventually this is going to be over. You've got to put in what you can. I think with all the guys, it hit home. Eventually all of us are going to have to make this decision.

The way we approach the game is totally different. We have a lot of confidence. We feel like we know we're going to win. Before, we were just trying to stay in games. We weren't as competitive down the stretch. We kinda gave up. Now, we're very resilient.

If we were winning and I was playing the way that I'm playing, I would be as happy as anybody in this world. But we're not winning, so I can't condone it.

I just took what was given to me. I played basketball tonight.

I think the way we played, the continuity, the offense and defense was really good. Coach kept a good group of guys on the court. We really got a feel for each other. We were playing like we played with each other before ... I liked it a lot.