Top 35 Chris Bosh Quotes

Once I close the doors, it’s closed. I don’t open it back up. That’s kind of me as a human being. That’s just one of the things about me… But yeah, for me, I don’t close anything until I’m officially done.

If you’re an athlete in this game, you have to protect your own interests, and you have to protect your body and your family.

The media attention – the negative, in particular – it makes you a different person.

You give me enough shots, I’ll average 20. You give me a particular system where I stick close to the basket, I’ll average 10 rebounds.

My dad used to play every other weekend with me when I was young. I started getting better, but he could always beat me. Then one day, he realized the jig was up. And he stopped playing me just before I could beat him.

I spend my days in an office in my house. There are things to be done that I don’t have the skill set for. I’m able to learn on the fly, thank God, so I can function. But it’s difficult.

Kanye West – he’s all over the place, and I think he defines what an artist is because none of his work is the same, and he’s into what he’s into.

If it’s about working out and playing basketball, I’m one of the best in the world to do it – at least two years ago. But I’m still in a space where I can play.

Everybody says they want to win. But when you start talking about sacrifice and doing what’s right for the team, it’s like, ‘Wait a minute, I didn’t mean that. I want to win, but…’ There’s always a conjunction with that. It’s never what you think it is. And it’s always, like, your weakest point where you got to do it.

I learned HTML in high school and then graduated to CSS. It’s a great way to exercise my mind. But it’s frustrating as hell.

If a doctor tells me, ‘Hey, that’s it, and this is how it is,’ and I don’t buy that, then I think I have the right to disagree with you.

You’re playing games every two or three nights, so there’s no real time off.

I’m still learning more about myself and my situation and really, off the court, how to function there, because I’m kind of getting the taste of retirement now.

For me, I kind of just follow my passions and follow what I love to do and use my free time to kind of answer those questions and go through my bad moods and maybe a little light case of depression.

To be honest, I’m looking at today’s game, and I put myself in that position and how I would benefit from the faster basketball, more threes, catch-and-go opportunities, attacking the paint with more space, that’s what kind of gets me juiced up and riled up when I watch today’s game.

Don’t get me wrong – it’s amazing playing basketball. But being 19 years old, playing and interacting with grown men with families wasn’t fun all the time, especially during a grueling 82-game season. That, mixed with Toronto’s freezing winter climate, made me miss my buddies back at Tech even more.

Being in the NBA, being successful, being able to win championships at the highest level in the world, there’s certain core values that you have, certain things you have to follow.

That’s one thing I pride myself a lot more now, playing defense, I do what the team needs me to do. If we need a stop, I’ll do it. That’s a major, major part of my game now.

I’m more mature, my game is more mature, and I can do a bunch of things on and off the court to fully maximize this team’s potential.

Your favorite coach is the one who constantly yells at you.

I felt like I was chosen to play basketball when I was younger.

I learned how important it is to have a home that’s in order – that’s peaceful.

It is a business. I know we, as athletes and owners and people involved with the NBA, never want to say that it’s a business and things like that. It is a business.

The game has gotten a lot faster. I was anticipating changes as far back as when I first came into the league, when the spacing was changing, and big guys were playing in different spaces on the floor. But when that change actually happens, and it happens so quickly, it’s just amazing.

I love Miami: great town, always loved it, a great place to play basketball.

I would have to be in a very different place in my life to coach basketball. I’ll always work out and be in the gym.

I remember in high school, I ate some nachos probably like an hour, half-hour before the game, and it’s kind of gross, but a little of it came up while I was running – you know you get that burp – and I literally coughed at the same time, and it got caught in my nose, and it was during the game.

At the end of the day, I looked at my options. I wanted to be in the NBA. I wanted to pursue my dream. It was my choice. But sometimes, just for fun, I think about how it would’ve been if I’d stayed in college.

I would really want to teach someone how to function without having to have plays called for you.

CB4 is never coming back. A few years later, I think I’m a much better player. It’s funny, even all the way over here in Africa, people are telling me, ‘We need CB4 back.’ I can’t be that. That’s impossible.

Micky Arison is a fantastic owner and a great leader, and we’ve always had a special relationship.

People used to ask me, ‘What else do you want to do?’ For me, the answer was, ‘Nothing.’ I loved basketball. It’s all I wanted.

I feel that I was chosen to do it. It’s taken me all over the world and given me opportunities to take care of my family and give me experiences that I would not have had. I think about those things and what I owe to the game.

I had friends around campus and great teammates. I didn’t want to leave. I didn’t expect to be regarded and scouted as such a high pick, so it was a crazy twist to reality. I’d always wanted to make the NBA. It was my dream. Then all of a sudden, people were telling me I’d be the fourth pick if I entered the draft.

The NBA is the best league in the world. It’s no way you’re going to be able to fill the void that the energy of performing before 20,000 people every night gives you. That’s just impossible. So, I just try and move on from that and let it be a moment in time and leave it alone.