Carmelo Anthony Quotes

Every Morning You Have Two Choices: Continue To Sleep With Your Dreams, Or Wake Up and Chase Them.

I believe that you should put the right people around you, people that will not let anything go wrong.

Family time is the best time.

Nobody should expect more of you than you expect of yourself.

Always stay true to yourself. Some people will like it, some people won't. Life goes on.

Allen Iverson is a ball hog. You will never win a championship with him on your team.

Success is the result of psychologically preparing for it, prior to achieving it!

People tend to grow fearful, when they taste failure, face a daunting challenge or fall ill. Yet, that is precisely the time to become even bolder. Those who are victors at heart are the greatest of all champions!!!!

When I step on that basketball court, I'm thinking about basketball, I'm thinking about winning - but there's so much that goes into thought about how I'm going to open this game up to others. It's so much more than just basketball.

I want to be a free agent. I think everybody in the NBA dreams to be a free agent at least one time in their career. It's like you have an evaluation period. It's like if I'm in the gym and I have all the coaches, all the owners, all the GMs come into the gym and just evaluate everything I do. So yes, I want that experience.

You've got to have fun on the court. If you ain't having fun, then basketball ain't fun.

When I was young, I was sold on winning. I was always serious on the court. As I got older, I realized that it was just a basketball game. Just go out there and have fun.

At this point in my career I'm not concerned about the money, it's about winning. Nothing else even matters.

It bothers me to hear people talk about things they know nothing about.

As long as you stay true to yourself and to who you are, you ain't in nobody's way.

Play hard, learn as much as I can and do what I do best. The rest will take care of itself I think.

A lot of people I meet say, 'You remind me so much of Magic Johnson.'

You just got ta believe, i have never been a quitter in my life or in my career.

I think I'm the most underrated superstar that's out there, but that doesn't matter to me.

I think going to college for that one year was probable the best thing I have ever done.

Man, I'm not trying to be important; I just go out and play.

No one is perfect. I know there is stuff that I need to work on, and not just one thing, but my game overall. Everything can get better.

As a good player in the inner city, you're always hearing people saying that you're better than you really are and that you don't have to do things like everybody else.

I want to retire in New York, let's be quite frank. I think a lot of people jumped the gun when I said I wanted to be a free agent. And yeah, I want people to come to play in New York. I want them to want to play in New York. I want New York to be that place where guys want to come play.

Although you do look at the big picture, if you're dealing with the now, it can be kind of frustrating. You're losing basketball games, things not going the way you want it to go or should go, but at the same time we've just got to stay with it. Just stay positive, just stay focused, as a team, as a unit, because the ship easily can sink early.

The fans are dying. We're dying.

How can U fairly assess someone from the outside looking in ... majority of the times you will be wrong.

I told my mom I would graduate. I owe that much to her and myself.

I just want to get on the court.

To go out there and play and have fun and hopefully win a championship. That's my goal.

Man, I think the sky is the limit for this team.

I'm a classical type of guy. Whatever's out at that point in time, I like it. I just put my own twist on it, and we go from there.

We're still getting better as a team. We're still learning how to play basketball as a team and how to win tough games.

People only know what they see on TV.

Every year it's been people saying I can't do this or I can't do that. Y'all will see something different, I can tell you that.

People need to see the authentic people that are still out there, the genuine people that really care.

A lot of people think that as a player, during the lockout, you just have your whole day free. It's not like that - especially for me. I wake up everyday, train in the morning from 9 a.m. to about 2 p.m. Then I have a business meeting here, have to meet this person there, it's non-stop for me.

The NBAs a Fortune 500 company. Thats how you look at it. And all the other Fortune 500 companies out there in the world, you dont see their CEOs and COOs going to work with white tees and baggy clothes and stuff like that. So I have to take that same approach.

It will work out, somehow. That's a hell of a duo right there, Marbury, Crawford and Houston.

I just don't want to get used to feeling this feeling, you know, losing basketball games.

It's too late for me to get married before I'm famous. You never know people's intentions.

Everything on my body has a meaning. I don't do art just because. It does look cool but it also has a meaning.

Denver is home to me, and to be recognized for my achievements in the sports community here is a great honor.

If you laugh, think, and cry; that's a full day.

It [boxing] helps my hand-eye coordination, my stamina, my footwork, and it gives me that competitive edge and drive. And in the ring it's mano-a-mano. So it helps you build that arrogance, that cockiness, that confidence in yourself that the man that stands in front of you isn't going to beat you, and that translates to the court.

I say 'come with it.' I'm not expecting anything easy. You have to earn your place. That's fine with me.

I smile all the time, even when I'm in a bad mood. I always try to keep a smile on my face.

I never envisioned myself playing for the U.S. Olympic team -- growing up, I never envisioned playing in the NBA, to be real with you. I never envisioned that type of stuff. So this is like a dream that I never had come true. It's like I'm a part of what's really going on. It's still very hard for me to believe that I am really going to be a part of the biggest thing in the whole entire world.

I don't want to just be an athlete. I kind of obsess on that sometimes. I don't want my son to be reading, oh, 'disappointment, just a scorer, selfish, didn't win enough, never quite the best' -- whatever. I want to be bigger than that. I want to shape my own destiny instead of just having him read about whatever on the back page.

I understand the NBA and the role I play on my team. I know that I have to play a leadership role and do whatever I have to do to win.