Iman Shumpert famous quotes

You're not going to find me in something someone else is wearing. Unless, of course, he's a very swaggy individual.
-- Iman Shumpert

#Individual #Find Me #Courses

I don't want the attention. I want the respect.
-- Iman Shumpert

#Attention #Want

By the time I got to the league I knew the cameras were going to be there and to turn it on.
-- Iman Shumpert

#League #Cameras #Turns

When we were growing up we only got two pairs of shoes every year. With me, I was lucky because I got three pairs of shoes, the third were basketball shoes: Black Air Force Ones, White Air Force Ones, and boots for the winter.
-- Iman Shumpert

#Basketball #Growing Up #Winter

I can do whatever I want.
-- Iman Shumpert

#Want #Can Do #I Can

I would have people send me shoes and I had 40 pairs and none would fit in the dorm room. People would come by and be like, "Yo, I've been looking for these shoes." I was like, "I'll sell them to you for $300 right now." I'd sell them, save up $4,000 to $5,000, go to the mall and just buy a bunch of new stuff.
-- Iman Shumpert

#Shoes #People #Dorms

[ Stylists] are putting you in a style that most people are in because it's the trend. So you might have on the same outfit as everyone else.
-- Iman Shumpert

#People #Style #Stylist

I like when people do cool stuff that might be a little off-the-wall to anybody else, but they found a way to make it work for that day. I wouldn't recommend that people wear it every day like that, but if you every once in a while just spice it up, I like that. I dare to be different.
-- Iman Shumpert

#People #Different #Dare

I always wanted to dress up like Darth Maul.So I designed my own kilt.
-- Iman Shumpert

#Dresses #Kilts #Wanted

I asked Tyson Chandler who has to customize everything because he's 7-foot-1. He's said, always call a designer. You want to wear certain stuff but people don't make it.
-- Iman Shumpert

#Feet #People #Want

I don't want to be predictable at all.
-- Iman Shumpert

#Want #Predictable

[Tyson Chandler] doesn't listen to people either. He does whatever he feels like and people will be like, "Who dressed you?"
-- Iman Shumpert

#People #Doe #Tyson

There's a lot of guys in the NBA that would hire stylists because they know they don't have their own sense of style and they need a little guidance.
-- Iman Shumpert

#Nba #Guy #Style

When I started in the league, I went to a tailor and told him I wanted long t-shirts. But they were like, "You know, you don't know what the trend is." I was like, "Look dog, I don't care about trends or your fashion sense. If I'm going to pay you money, this is where the shirt is going to end."
-- Iman Shumpert

#Dog #Fashion #Long

Maybe somewhere down the line when I'm done playing, I'd want to style NBA players.
-- Iman Shumpert

#Player #Nba #Style

I always knew what I wanted to dress like but that's when I became really passionate about it. We'd be in class and Google outfits or I'd doodle what I wanted.
-- Iman Shumpert

#Class #Google #Dresses

I designed it, the tailors wanted the kilt as a high joint but I wanted mine low like a Jedi.
-- Iman Shumpert

#Kilts #Tailors #Joints

A lot of times I just feel like this is not a special day, these are just clothes that I bought.
-- Iman Shumpert

#Clothes #Special #Feels

I mean, shout out to the people that get dressed everyday and want to take that picture everyday. I would much rather post pictures of [my girlfriend] than of myself.
-- Iman Shumpert

#Girlfriend #Mean #People

That's kind of the mystique If you [post your outfit] on Instagram all of the time, I'm going to see a bunch of people walking around looking like Shump.
-- Iman Shumpert

#People #Instagram #Kind

I don't feel like you should promote personally that you dress nicely.
-- Iman Shumpert

#Dresses #Like You #Should

Sometimes you give a person everything. You give them all of you. You give them everything you got, and they just don't want it, or that ain't your match. So now the next person, maybe that's really something special, but you not even acting like yourself.
-- Iman Shumpert

#Giving #Special #Acting

I want a woman to walk past and say, "I would love to be in a picture with him."
-- Iman Shumpert

#Past #Want #Walks

But the judge would have to be people in the fashion world and a bunch of random girls. Because guys in the league aren't trying to impress guys in the league. They're trying to impress people who have clout in the fashion world and women.
-- Iman Shumpert

#Girl #Fashion #People

I respect them [Amar Stoudemire, Carmelo Anthony or Dwyane Wade], but would I dress like them? No.
-- Iman Shumpert

#Dresses #Wade

I'm super reserved in letting people in my house. A lot of guys don't trust anybody in their homes but they would trust somebody like me because I've been there.
-- Iman Shumpert

#Home #People #House

It's hard to want to let somebody into your house.
-- Iman Shumpert

#House #Want #Hard

I would love [to learn more about fashion] - anything that's going to help me put certain looks together.
-- Iman Shumpert

#Fashion #Together #Looks

I'll show up at Fashion Week with a mink on with a lion head biting my shoulder. I would love that. Oh my God, with a jaguar tail on my shoes. Something crazy.
-- Iman Shumpert

#Fashion #Crazy #Shoes

I live a real life so I forget to take pictures.
-- Iman Shumpert

#Real #Real Life #Forget

I have an Instagram [account] but I don't feel a lot of love with it.
-- Iman Shumpert

#Instagram #Feels #Accounts

You expect a basketball player to come with a white button-down, Balmain jeans, and Balenciagas. You expect that. But when I come with an extended button-down, camos, no socks, Louboutins that have spikes on them, and a bow tie with diamonds, you'll be like, "What? Who dressed him?"
-- Iman Shumpert

#Basketball #Player #Jeans

If you grew up watching 'Star Wars' you're like, wow, look at Darth Maul, he has that outfit. And that lightsaber. And he's jumping. When I see stuff, rarely do I forget. And that's what I always wanted to wear.
-- Iman Shumpert

#Stars #War #Jumping

I don't want to see anyone else looking like me.That'd be my nightmare. Though if I saw someone wearing what I did, I would know he was swaggy.
-- Iman Shumpert

#Want #Saws #Nightmare

I don't have a stylist. That, in a way, is cheating. Put five players in a thrift store and see who has the best style in the end, and then you'll see who has real style.
-- Iman Shumpert

#Cheating #Real #Player

I remember watching Mike [Michael Jordan]. I remember him having a royal blue blazer and all black t-shirt and he came out of a blue Corvette. That was dope to us. We were like, 'Yo, Michael killed today.' He didn't even talk to the media and walked straight into the arena. Everyday's like Mike.
-- Iman Shumpert

#Dope #Blue #Media

I'm conscious about what I wear, whether it's a game or an event.
-- Iman Shumpert

#Games #Events #Conscious

Everyday has to be different for me. Even if people are like, "You dressed up like a character today, it's not Halloween."
-- Iman Shumpert

#Halloween #Character #People

It doesn't matter because I want to be that guy who you never know what I'm going to wear.
-- Iman Shumpert

#Guy #Want #Matter

I was growing, so I had to scrunch my feet up. Now people are like: "Why do you have so many shoes." I jump at the fact that I can wear something new everyday.
-- Iman Shumpert

#Shoes #Feet #People

My mother worked in fashion design and she used to show me all of these looks. She tried to get me to wear fitted jeans in high school. This is when big jeans were popping.
-- Iman Shumpert

#Mother #Fashion #School

When I got to college I finally got a job.
-- Iman Shumpert

#Jobs #College

Tyson [Chandler] encouraged me and was like, if that's what you want to wear, wear that.
-- Iman Shumpert

#Want #What You Want #Tyson

Me and Bianca [Stewart] would go to thrift stores like the Salvation Army. We'd pick up dope stuff no one ever heard of. But we'd put it together in ways that would work and be different.
-- Iman Shumpert

#Army #Dope #Together

I was like, you know, if you want to be someone big, you have to dress the part.
-- Iman Shumpert

#Dresses #Want #Like You

No one else on the team in college was dressing up. They were wearing sweats.
-- Iman Shumpert

#Team #College #Dressing Up

I started dressing and people used to ask, "Where do you get all that stuff?" I was going to thrift stores with my best friend Bianca Stewart.
-- Iman Shumpert

#People #My Best Friend #Stuff

I threw all my clothes away from high school.
-- Iman Shumpert

#School #Clothes #High School

I'm not trying to plant the seed that I'm the most fashionable NBA guy - of course, I think that in my own mind.
-- Iman Shumpert

#Thinking #Nba #Guy

The difference between me and other athletes is that I'm speaking on things that I go through that I know other people go through. I think a lot of times the mistake in music if you're broke, rap about being broke, if you're sensitive, rap about being sensitive, 'cause there are other sensitive people. If you're sensitive but you talk about being a tough person that doesn't care about anything, people will call your bluff.
-- Iman Shumpert

#Mistake #Rap #Athlete

I would like to walk in a room and people know who I am and be like, "Oh, I respect his opinion."
-- Iman Shumpert

#Who I Am #People #Rooms