Gilbert Arenas Quotes
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I lost all feeling a long time ago. Basketball is basketball. It doesn't matter what floor I'm on.
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When I was little, I asked God if I could meet my mom just one more time, and my prayer was answered in 2001. It was weird.
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You don't want to be too uptight about anything. Especially your job.
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I found out this summer how to hook up my Xbox 360 in the hotel and get past security. It took me a while to figure out, but I got it now.
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It's hard to get recognition when your team is losing.
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As a player leaving early, you always look back and wonder what could have been. But you have to be happy with your decisions, because you ultimately have to live with them.
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I had my house converted to the Colorado altitude, so I am always above sea level.
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Everyone is gonna have a bad day, everyone is gonna have a bad game. The questions are: How do you recover? What builds your character? I decided one day early on in high school that I wanted to be great at basketball, not just a good basketball player.
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I'm still trying to be a kid. I really don't want to feel like an adult.
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My swag was phenomenal.
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It sucks the way the world works. You can do a hundred things for people, but you do one bad mistake and everyone crucifies you and that's all they want to remember.
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On the road, I eat hamburgers every day. The team tries to get me to eat differently, but no. Burgers, burgers, burgers. I like burgers. McDonald's burgers. Wendy's burgers. Burger King burgers. There's this one place in Canada - I even look at the schedule to find out when we play there - best burger I've ever tasted. Real soft and sweet. I ate twelve of them in one night.
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When I leave the NBA, I don't want my legacy to be, 'He won a championship ring.' I want my legacy to say: 'He played for the people. He gave everybody in the world hope that they can be just like him.'
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If your heart is bigger than the biggest guy on the team, then you're the biggest guy on the team.
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When something drastic happens in our life, one person goes and hides and doesn't want to be seen. That's what I did. [Others] want to stand up and fight and think they're tough. Like if someone gets shot, you're either scared of guns or you think you're Superman. In my situation, I wanted to hide. I didn't want to be seen anymore.
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I like when somebody says something negative about me because I can put it back in their face
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When I hear about people murdering, I wonder, 'What has to go through your brain to say, I don't want him breathing anymore? What makes you get that angry? How can you take someone's breath away? That just blows my mind.'
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You have to do everything to help your team out. I have the ability to rebound, so I might as well go and do it to help my team win.
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This sport is just crazy. Your worst enemy in college is your teammate and friend when you get to the NBA. Who would have thought it?
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You know, that's all basketball is. If someone loves something, and you take it away, it's like what does he do now? What does someone do? That's what happened with me.
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Why would I endorse the hibachi grill when I am the hibachi grill?
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As happy as I am off the floor, on the floor I am the opposite. I don't take any crap.
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I'm a jokester, so when I was joking on Twitter, it kinda rubbed people the wrong way. And I was like, I didn't make these up. I'm just letting you know they're there.
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I try not to do the fantasy thing. If I didn't get hurt, what would I be? Who knows? When I look back on my career, from the hard work I put in, I got everything I deserved.
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Everyone is having sex until they fall in love. When you fall in love, then it's making love.
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I hate it when you see talented teams with a lot of scorers and they can't get along with each other.
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The hibachi is coming to a city near you. I'm cooking chicken and shrimp, but if you want to throw a double team my way, filet mignon gets cooked too.
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I want to be the best in whatever I do.
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Everybody get drunk and make bad decisions.
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If you take away the last few years, from my last year in Washington, and you think about my career, there was nothing but hard work. I was in the gym three or four times a day, working on my skills. If we lost a game, and I thought I played bad, I'm staying in the gym to keep shooting. That's what I did. That's what I was known for: I was a gym rat.
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