Quotes by Derrick Rose - Page 2

I feel like I have everything else as far as being creative and athletic. But it's the little things that's going to push me over, like ball-handling, passing, boxing out when I'm setting screens. Little things like that that you would overlook that can make me a complete player.
Derrick Rose / Basketball Player
Boxing
Creative
Player
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If I just do everything the opposite of what my dad did, I think that will make things pretty easy. I can joke about it now because I'm past that stage where it used to hurt. By having a kid, it's gone. I could take all that negative energy that I had and put it in a positive way.
Derrick Rose / Basketball Player
Kids
Dad
Hurt
Negative
Negative Energy
Opposite
Joke
Positive Way
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My mom is real passionate and a family-first woman. She always told me that just because I can shoot a basketball better than someone else, I shouldn't think that I'm better than them. I know if I change, my friends and family would lay me down. She just wants to see her kids do right.
Derrick Rose / Basketball Player
Friends And Family
Lay
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I always want my shoes real clean. The front of my shoe is really like my personality, where off the court I'm kind of calm and kind of shy a little bit - low key. In the back, it's kind of crazy, just like me on the court. I love how both of my personalities are involved into the shoe.
Derrick Rose / Basketball Player
Crazy
Keys
Real
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I want to thank my mom, Brenda Rose. My heart, the reason I play the way I play, just everything. Just knowing the days I don't feel right, going to practice, having a hard time, I think about her when she had to wake me up, go to work and make sure I was all right. Those were hard days.
Derrick Rose / Basketball Player
Practice
Work Time Mom
Hard Time
Thank
Wake
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I never had a problem with a coach in my life, no matter what team I've been in on.I put that on myself because I let that space and opportunity start something especially when people didn't know what was going on or people are trying to find out or figure out what's going on with the team.
Derrick Rose / Basketball Player
Opportunity
Space
Team
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It is very important to me to maintain a consistent workout regimen during the season. The Bulls staff does a great job with providing me with a weekly workout, and these kept me energized throughout my rookie season. In the off season, I try to increase my strength and add new dimensions to my game.
Derrick Rose / Basketball Player
Add
Bulls
Consistent
Dimensions
Great Job
Increase
Providing
Staff
Workout
Strength Great Me
Maintain
Regimen
Rookie
Season
Throughout
Weekly
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Its tough growing up where I grew up. My family is very small and really tight. Just being around the neighborhood, my brothers were always around. I didnt want to be in any trouble because I knew my mom or brothers would find out. I didnt want to hurt their feelings. I just tried to do everything right.
Derrick Rose / Basketball Player
Mom
Brother
Hurt
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It's tough growing up where I grew up. My family is very small and really tight. Just being around the neighborhood, my brothers were always around. I didn't want to be in any trouble because I knew my mom or brothers would find out. I didn't want to hurt their feelings. I just tried to do everything right.
Derrick Rose / Basketball Player
Growing Up
Hurt
Neighborhood
Tough
Family Mom Always
Brothers
Tight
Tried
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People think that I'm mean because I'm quiet, and I don't really go out places or because I don't really say too much. On the other hand, people think that I'm soft because I may not handle myself the way other people handle themselves. That's just not me. They don't know my background or none of that stuff.
Derrick Rose / Basketball Player
Hands
May
Mean
Quiet
Stuff
Thinking
Too Much
Myself Me People
Myself Me May
Background
Too
Hand
None
Places
Soft
Themselves
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Being healthy is a complete lifestyle for me. It allows my brain to function at a very high degree so I can comprehend all the new things that are thrown at me. It also allows me to sleep well so that I am rested when I need to perform. Finally, being healthy will hopefully allow me to live a long and fun-filled life.
Derrick Rose / Basketball Player
Brain
Fun
Function
Healthy
Lifestyle
Long
New Things
Sleep
Thrown
Life I Am Me
Allow
Perform
Complete
Comprehend
Degree
Finally
Rested
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In my era, where I'm from, I only had Donald Whiteside. He's from Englewood and he's the only one that came out of Englewood. Other than him, I really didn't have anyone else to look up to that was from my area. So in seeing him, I never gave up hope, just kept playing and then I realized that I might have a future in basketball.
Derrick Rose / Basketball Player
Basketball
Seeing
Future Hope Look
Anyone Else
Area
Donald
Realized
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The way I look at it within myself, why not? Why can't I be the MVP of the League? Why can't I be the best player in the League? I don't see why-why-why can't I do that? I think I work hard, I think I dedicate myself to the game and sacrifice a lot of things at a young age and I know if I continue to do good, what I can get out of it and if that's me going out or doing whatever, I'm willing to do it because I know in the long run, it's going to help me.
Derrick Rose / Basketball Player
Running
Hard Work
Sacrifice
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