Quotes by Demarcus Cousins - Page 2

Leadership is being the best example you can be for your teammates. The guy that everybody can depend on on a nightly basis.
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Being The Best
Teammates
Nightly
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I'm excited to contribute towards U.S.A. Basketball's winning legacy and continuing its tremendous reputation around the world.
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Continuing
Legacy
Reputation
Tremendous
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I want my family and myself to be comfortable wherever I am at the time, and just be able to relax and kind of let my hair down.
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Relax
Family Time Myself
Just Be
Wherever
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People say they hate having fake people around, but when you keep it real, they hate you even more. People don't like the truth.
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Truth
Fake
Fake People
Hate
Real
Around
Truth People Real
Even
Say
Having
More People
People Say
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No matter how much time there is, if guys can come together and mesh and play with some type of chemistry, you're going to win games.
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Chemistry
Mesh
How Much Time
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Sometimes I let some of the small things take over. It can be a simple thing, like a call going the wrong way, and it takes me all off.
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All Things
Over It
Small Things
Wrong Way
Simple Thing
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I've got a real problem when I know something is wrong or I feel something is wrong, I'm going to speak about it. I get it from my mother.
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Real Problem
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I got drafted at 19. I've got millions of dollars in my pocket, I could have lost my damn mind. I don't see how you could consider me immature.
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Damn
Drafted
Millions Of Dollars
Pocket
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I know I've done bad things. But I've done just as much good as I have done bad. And it's not even necessarily bad. I would say they're growing pains.
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Bad Things
Good Done Bad
Good Bad Done
Just As Much
Pains
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I love my job. If I have a chance to play against some of the top talent in the world or whether it's against guys around the corner, I'm going to play.
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Corner
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People don't like when people are straight forward. They like things to be sugar coated. They like to beat around the bush. I'm not that type of person.
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Sugar
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Some of my technicals, I don't even understand. I see some of those technicals other players get, and I compare them to mine and they're completely unfair.
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Compare
Unfair
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I just don't go out of my way to impress anybody. You either appreciate me for who I am or you don't. That's just the way it is. I'm comfortable in my own skin.
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Impress
I Am Me Skin
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The competitive spirit of basketball is slowly leaking out. Taking pride in one-on-one defense is slowly leaking out. It's more about selling calls and flopping.
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One On One
Selling
Calls
Slowly
Leaking
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Putting a smile on kids, putting a smile on families' faces, changing people's lives with your so-called status and celebrity with your so-called impact, that's reality.
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Faces
So-Called
Status
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Coming into the league, everyone said I was going to be fat, I was the next Oliver Miller. I had all these red flags. I just feel I was never given a fair chance coming in.
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Flags
Fair Chance
Miller
Oliver
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I'm a guy that a lot of people look up to. I haven't always handled situations the right way. That's why I have to continue to grow and be a better player, a better leader.
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Right Way
Better Player
Handled
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I'm not going to sit here and say I'm innocent, because I've done things. But to get the reputation that I've got, I don't think I've done enough. I don't have a criminal record.
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Innocent
Reputation
Criminal
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One of my biggest fears is to be proven wrong by somebody that doesn't agree with me or doesn't have my best interest at heart. With that being said I'm always seeking to prove those types of people wrong.
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Agree
Prove
Seeking
Best Always Heart
Best Heart Me
Fears
Types
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When it was clear I couldn't stay in New Orleans, I went out and created what would end up being the best opportunity for myself. I asked my agent to set up a call with the Warriors. I knew they could use a big.
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Being The Best
New Orleans
Agent
Best Myself Opportunity
Orleans
Warriors
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I actually prefer teammates that have emotions. It means you care, compared to a guy that's kind of just nonchalant and goes about it like it doesn't matter. So I want guys that care. I want guys that show they care.
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Teammates
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It's just, some players I don't respect. Just their playing style of basketball. I don't respect it. I feel like it's basically cheating and I don't respect a cheater. If that's your tactic to winning, I don't respect you.
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Cheating
Tactic
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You'd go back to school and your friends would say, 'What you get for Christmas?' You got to make up a lie. 'I got this, this and this.' It's all part of growing up and everyone has a different story. It made me who I am today.
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Back To School
Different Story
Make Up
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If you was somewhere walking down the street and somebody says something crazy to you, you're going to react. So just because it's a basketball event doesn't mean those emotions go out the door or us being a human being goes out the door. It's the same thing.
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React
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When they say I'm a bad teammate and that I got a coach fired, that irritates the hell out of me. The biggest thing for me is to always have respect for my teammates. And then the whole Westphal thing - the man got himself fired. He was losing before I got here.
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Teammate
Biggest Thing
Fired
Irritates
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When you have a cop approaching your car with his hand on his gun, I know it may be protocol, but us being the people we are, you automatically feel as if you're a criminal. So where's the respect then? You probably won't respond the correct way. So how do we find a common ground then?
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Common Ground
Cop
Gun
Protocol
Approaching
Automatically
Correct
Criminal
Respond
Ground
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I get out in the 'hoods. I want to go to the worst, the grimiest places. That's where I want to be. Those are usually the kids or the communities that kind of get left behind or forgotten about. I feel like I was in that situation at one point. That's where my mindset is and that's what I stand for.
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Forgotten
Mindset
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A close friend of mine's daughter was diagnosed with Epilepsy and battled seizures her first 2 years so this cause hits close to home. She ended up having brain surgery and has been seizure-free since. It really is an incredible story. Anything I can do to help promote Epilepsy awareness, I am with it.
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Brain Surgery
Surgery
Diagnosed
Close Friend
Promote
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