Gilbert Arenas Quotes

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.

I hate it when you see talented teams with a lot of scorers and they can't get along with each other.

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.

I always have something going on.

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.'

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.'

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.

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?

Everyone is having sex until they fall in love. When you fall in love, then it's making love.

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.

I want to be the best in whatever I do.

I'm still trying to be a kid. I really don't want to feel like an adult.

I lost all feeling a long time ago. Basketball is basketball. It doesn't matter what floor I'm on.

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.

Most kids would be like, 'My dad's never around.' But I saw it as a positive. He was out there working to provide for me.

My swag was phenomenal.

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.

You don't want to be too uptight about anything. Especially your job.

I want to be the best at whatever I do. I don't care who gets in the way.

Individual honors come with team success.

A woman gave my dad $400 so we could get an apartment. We were living in a park. That's how we got started: Four hundred bucks, and look at me. When I donate a computer to a school, I never know what's going to come out of it.

The thing that happened in Washington -- it happened. All you can do is just grow from it. That took a toll on me. That was probably -- I think if I could've bounced mentally out of that situation faster than I did, I would probably still be in the NBA. But since I couldn't understand why they were trying to treat me like that, I basically gave up. I just didn't want to be a part of it anymore.

When you're in that zone there's nothing really the defense can do ... It doesn't matter who's sticking you because everything looks good.

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.

Everybody get drunk and make bad decisions.

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.

If your heart is bigger than the biggest guy on the team, then you're the biggest guy on the team.

It's hard to get recognition when your team is losing.

As happy as I am off the floor, on the floor I am the opposite. I don't take any crap.

They gave high fives to all the players who say like the most obvious textbook answers in the world. It's like after each game, you already know what they're going to say. If they lost: "Ahh ... Tough loss." It's like, come on, how do you guys fall for that? And if they something that they really feel, everyone goes crazy. Like "Oohh! He's spazzing out!" Now he gotta say sorry for saying something he really felt. It's like, Oh lord.

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.