GILBERT ARENAS QUOTES
American basketball player (1982- )
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.
GILBERT ARENAS
SI.com, Feb. 20, 2012
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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attributed, JockBio
It's hard to get recognition when your team is losing.
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interview, Jan. 15, 2005
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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Washington Post, Dec. 13, 2013
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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"Zero Sum Game", Slam Online
I want to be the best in whatever I do.
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Daily Texan, Mar. 29, 2001
I lost all feeling a long time ago. Basketball is basketball. It doesn't matter what floor I'm on.
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AOL News, Oct. 6, 2010
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.
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Esquire, Apr. 2010
NOW this is what america was hoping for when they announced the #WNBA back in 1996 ... not a bunch of chicks running around looking like cast members from #orangeisthenewblack ... don't get me wrong, they have few #cutiepies but theres a whole alotta #beanpies running around hahahahahaha if #skylardiggins came out like this, I dont care if she missed every layup ... imma buy season tickets and I dont even know where the [expletive] #tulsa is hahahaha #2016newwnbaoutfitPLS and if u think this is sexist, 9 times out of 10 u the ugly one and we didnt pay to come see u play anyway #donkeykong ... smdh #thiswillbeawesome #soldouteverywhere.
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Twitter post, December 15, 2015
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.
GILBERT ARENAS
attributed, Real Clear Sports, May 17, 2013
Ppl act like I said some [expletive] thats just down right sexist and rude ... str8 men are attracted to women RIGHT? Men are 80 percent of sportviewers RIGHT? So lets name a few women sports that still attract the men viewers ... #Tennis, omg they were short skirts like female ... #trackandfield, short tights and crop tops, so we can see abs ...
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Twitter post, December 2015
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.
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"Zero Sum Game", Slam Online, Mar. 14, 2013
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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SI.com, Feb. 20, 2012
Individual honors come with team success.
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Washington Post, Nov. 14, 2005
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.
GILBERT ARENAS
Esquire, Apr. 2010
I decided one day early on in high school that I wanted to be great at basketball, not just a good basketball player. I would go to the elementary school by my house and shoot thousands of shots all day, every day.
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Daily Texan, Mar. 29, 2001
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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attributed, JockBio
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.
GILBERT ARENAS
"Zero Sum Game", Slam Online, Mar. 14, 2013
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.
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Washington Post, Dec. 13, 2013
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.
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Washington Examiner, Dec. 2, 2005