Quotes by Metta World Peace

I always had the street mentality, but when you're older, you get more mature.

I grew up playing basketball on the streets of New York City, and it was very, very rough, and I started playing in the NBA in the same way.

You can tell when somebody is chosen basketball-wise. You can tell.

If you can be the best from Queensbridge and actually make it out, then you must be pretty good.

I'm not a 'real rapper'; I just like to talk about what I've been through. When I was younger, I just said random, stupid lyrics and censored myself because I was worried about what people would think. But now I've become more mature with my words and uncensored.

I grew up in the 'hood, but it was like growing up in Beverly Hills because there were so many superstars around.

I didn't realize Oklahoma had so many fine women.

For me, I saw a psychologist because I wanted to connect more with people, with the earth, my environment. I want to connect more to my family.

I'm not afraid to improve myself spiritually, emotionally, economically. I'm not afraid to take on that challenge.

Everybody has different issues, good or bad, that they carry with them on the court. It affects you. And for me, it affected me to where sometimes I would be overly aggressive and, in other ways, it would affect people to where they can't perform on the court.