Gilbert Arenas famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Blow #Breathing #People
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.
-- Gilbert Arenas

#Basketball #Character #Bad Day
I want to be the best in whatever I do.
-- Gilbert Arenas

#Want #Being The Best
Individual honors come with team success.
-- Gilbert Arenas

#Team #Honor #Individual
Everybody get drunk and make bad decisions.
-- Gilbert Arenas

#Drunk #Decision #Bad Decision
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.
-- Gilbert Arenas

#Sorry #Crazy #Fall
Everyone is having sex until they fall in love. When you fall in love, then it's making love.
-- Gilbert Arenas

#Falling In Love #Sex #Fall
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.
-- Gilbert Arenas

#Hurt #Hard Work #Careers
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

#People #Way
I always have something going on.
-- Gilbert Arenas
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.
-- Gilbert Arenas

#Thinking #Nba #Trying
As happy as I am off the floor, on the floor I am the opposite. I don't take any crap.
-- Gilbert Arenas

#Opposites #Crap
If your heart is bigger than the biggest guy on the team, then you're the biggest guy on the team.
-- Gilbert Arenas

#Team #Heart #Guy
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.
-- Gilbert Arenas

#Basketball #Doe #One Love
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.
-- Gilbert Arenas

#Hard Work #Thinking #Years
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.
-- Gilbert Arenas

#Fighting #Thinking #Gun
I lost all feeling a long time ago. Basketball is basketball. It doesn't matter what floor I'm on.
-- Gilbert Arenas

#Basketball #Long #Feelings
I had my house converted to the Colorado altitude, so I am always above sea level,
-- Gilbert Arenas

#Sea #House #Colorado
I like when somebody says something negative about me because I can put it back in their face
-- Gilbert Arenas

#Negative #Faces #Because I Can
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.
-- Gilbert Arenas

#Summer #Xbox #Past
Why would I endorse the hibachi grill when I am the hibachi grill?
-- Gilbert Arenas
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
-- Gilbert Arenas

#Team #Cities #Cooking
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

#Sweet #Kings #Team
It's hard to get recognition when your team is losing.
-- Gilbert Arenas

#Team #Losing #Recognition
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

#Mistake #People #World
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.
-- Gilbert Arenas

#Defense #Looks #Matter
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.
-- Gilbert Arenas

#Dad #School #Looks
My swag was phenomenal.
-- Gilbert Arenas

#Basketball #Swag #Phenomenal

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