Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" I'm not trying to be different. To me, I'm just being myself. "
Jaylen Brown
Be Different
Myself
Me
Related Quotes:
" I had attached my life to basketball so closely that it made me physically ill. "
Jaylen Brown
Made
Life
Had
" Reading is looked at like it's corny or lame, but you'd be surprised what you can find in a book. "
Jaylen Brown
Book
Corny
Find
" I would go to games like I go to dinner. If I come and wear something crazy, I'm just trying to be myself. "
Jaylen Brown
Trying
Myself
Go
" So basketball has always taken me places that I could have never imagined. "
Jaylen Brown
Places
Me
Never
" I think it's becoming cool to have mental toughness or to meditate. It's a thing, but I don't think people really understand the value of it. "
Jaylen Brown
Toughness
Think
Cool
" I disagree that an athlete can't be intelligent. Some people think that, in basketball, we have a bunch of masculine adults who don't know how to control themselves. They're feeble-minded and can't engage or articulate ideas. That's a narrative they keep trying to paint. "
Jaylen Brown
Think
Control
Ideas
" Some people think racism has dissipated or no longer exists. But it's hidden in more strategic places. "
Jaylen Brown
Some People
Think
More
" I learned to play chess at a young age, and I think that's where learning to plan things out and put things in position, that was the best thing for me. "
Jaylen Brown
Think
Plan
Age
" If I want any shot at getting on the floor, I gotta know what I'm doing defensively. "
Jaylen Brown
Know
Want
Shot
" When I got to Cal, they tried to put me in safe classes, things I could succeed at. I went to Cal for an education. That's definitely problematic. You see athletes taking majors that don't add up to anything. "
Jaylen Brown
See
You
Succeed
" In life, if you stay quiet, you'll get left behind. So I had to learn to be more vocal and outgoing. "
Jaylen Brown
Life
More
Quiet
" I just think Trump's character and some of his values makes him unfit to lead. For someone like him to be president and in charge of our troops? It's scary, to be honest. "
Jaylen Brown
Think
Character
Scary
" I'm just trying to be the best basketball player, the best student, the best son, friend, etcetera. I'm just trying to get better in every facet. "
Jaylen Brown
Better
Basketball
Best
" There's this idea of America that some people have to win and some have to lose, so certain things are in place to make this happen. Some people have to be the next legislators and political elites, and some have to fill the prisons and work in McDonald's. That's how America works. It's a machine which needs people up top and people down low. "
Jaylen Brown
Work
Win
Political
" I'm emotionally and physically ready for anything. "
Jaylen Brown
Physically
Ready
Anything
" A lot of people didn't know why I went to Cal. The Bay Area, Silicon Valley, I wanted to put myself in that position where I'm not only successful on the court but off the court. "
Jaylen Brown
Why
Successful
Myself
" Often, everybody is comfortable with their role in life, and they forget about the people who are uncomfortable. "
Jaylen Brown
Life
Forget
Who
" I try not to think about the things I can't control. "
Jaylen Brown
Things
About
Control
" I'm just going to keep working to show people what I can do. "
Jaylen Brown
People
Working
Going
" I really like black. I love wearing black, different aesthetics and shades. I like earth tones. Those are my go-tos. "
Jaylen Brown
Shades
Really
Black
" One of the most subtle but aggressive ways racism exists is through our education system. "
Jaylen Brown
System
Aggressive
Racism
" People will come at me telling me to wear this or wear that. If I don't like it, I don't like it. They couldn't pay me to wear it. If it's something I can rock with, I'll rock it. I'm more interested in being completely authentic to me. In my opinion, being myself is making a statement. "
Jaylen Brown
Me
Being Myself
Myself
" I hate taking pills. Like, I probably haven't taken a pill in over 10 years. "
Jaylen Brown
Like
Over
Pills
" I just try to be respectful of everybody. "
Jaylen Brown
Everybody
Respectful
Just