Quotes by Derrick Rose

I think a lot of people don't understand that when I sit out it's not because of this year. I'm thinking about long term. I'm thinking about after I'm done with basketball.

All I can do is just go in there and tighten up my game, tighten up my handles. Just all the little basic things that you wouldn't even think about, the fundamental parts of the game.

All I got to do is keep getting the most out of each one of my days and keep trying to be the best athlete I can become.

I just don't want to get caught up in the hype.

I can't wait to shock the doubters and prove I'm better and stronger than I was before.

I still have goals. Seeing those doubters out there, it's gonna be funny seeing them eat their words.

I will say, just being here, God is good, man.

Why can't I be MVP of the league? Why can't I be the best player in the league?

My son is everything to me. He's the reason why I get up and I work out the way I work out and train the way that I train. He changed everything about me, so he was a blessing.

I love playing basketball because you could be having a rough day in your life, and while you're on the court it gives you a clear mind. I'm not worried about anything. I'm there just playing freely and I go out there all and I have fun.

I've been playing youth basketball ever since I was in sixth grade; I've been traveling ever since I was in sixth grade, so I'm used to it.

To have a strong community of people who believe in your potential can make all the difference in the world. So many people have invested in me and I want to do the same for Chicago's teens.

My thing is just staying positive.  Find that thing you love doing and dedicate yourself to it.  You're going to have to sacrifice a lot of things if you want to achieve the goals you want to achieve.

We got to win. Win no matter what. Trip, kick somebody, fight, bite. Whatever. Win.

I put that on myself with not telling the Knicks. It was just bad timing but I'm not perfect, far from it. The front office and my teammates, they knew where I was coming from when I told them what happened.

I don't live in that world where I'm on social media, I don't got social media. Or I'm reading articles about my game, so it's like I hear stuff by word of mouth a couple of days after so it never gets to me. So I can't get mad about what they say.

I don't want to be in my meetings all sore or be at my son's graduation all sore just because of something I did in the past. (I'm) just learning and being smart.

I think good things come to good people.

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.

I believe that I'm a special player. I think people love the way I just try to play. I don't try to impress anyone when I'm playing or anything. I just have a feel for the game.

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.

My whole life has been nothing but trying to find a way to take care of my mom and take care of my family as quickly as possible.

I love eating it -- grilled chicken, pasta, rice, and other foods that give me long term energy. Every once in a while, my sweet tooth gets the best of me and I have to snack on some candy. Beverage wise, I stick to sports drinks, water, milk, and juice.

McDonald's is over with. But chips and candy and stuff, it's going to be hard to get away from that.

Don't get me wrong. I don't take anything for granted. But it seems like the better I play, the more attention I get. And I can't get away from it. You play great, you get attention. But I hate attention. It is weird. I'm in a bind. The more you win, the more they come.

The way I dress, I dress totally different than I did when I was in college. I have to -- try to -- look professional. You change a lot when you are in the NBA, but I know where I came from.

The hard part that I had to go through in life, period, is living in poverty and not being able to get what I want.

All physical activity begins with the body's core. I maintain the strength in my core so that I can jump, run, start, stop, and accelerate at the highest levels.

Playing all of these games, getting to know everything about the NBA, you realize that you are your own business. You have business meetings to go to, signings to go to. Like, I'm only 20, but the stuff I'm doing the average 20-year-old isn't doing.

When I was younger, I just thought about playing in the NBA.

I won't ever put myself in a bad position so that people can say bad things about me. I make smart decisions, and my friends and my family, they are all there for the right reason.

As long as I have my faith in God, I'm good. I know everything else is going to come.

On Halloween, don't you know back when you were little, your mom tells you don't eat any candy until she checks it? I used to be so tempted to eat my candy on the way to other people's houses. That used to be such a tease.

Everybody's got their poison, and mine is sugar.

My days shouldn't be hard because I'm doing what I'm doing and that's playing basketball.

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.

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.