Iman Shumpert Quotes

I don't want the attention. I want the respect.

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

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

I can do whatever I want.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

[ 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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

I live a real life so I forget to take pictures.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

I don't want to be predictable at all.

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

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.

I threw all my clothes away from high school.

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.

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

When I got to college I finally got a job.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.