Top 35 Rich Paul Quotes

It’s an honor to join the board of directors of a prestigious and successful company like UTA and one so committed to its culture.

Players have always communicated with each other. Players have always played pick-up in the summer.

Lucky Me’ is the story of every young black man who grew up like me. I want to use my story to uplift and inspire those who lived this and educate those who didn’t.

There is nothing we cannot do for an athlete. If a guy wants to write a book, great. If he wants to be a ‘Fortnite’ champion, great. If he wants to act, great. He wants to buy a surfboard company? Fantastic. There is nothing we cannot do for the modern athlete.

Life ain’t fair. I lost my dad at 19, is that fair?

You can’t worry about what people say.

At the end of the day, all I can do is continue to do a job for my client. That’s it.

When I was just a young kid who grew up in the inner city of Cleveland, I used to catch the bus downtown to grab a dollar hot dog at Public Square.

There is no easy way to break up with your wife.

It’s very difficult for me to represent a white player. It just is. Look around. There’s very few. I represent a player from Bosnia. But, again, he’s international. He looks at it different.

Does anyone really believe a four-year degree is what separates an ethical person from a con artist?

When you get the right representation, there’s an ease that comes to your mind that allows you to focus on other things.

LeBron is the best player on the planet.

I remember when ‘Bloodsport’ came out – I used to watch that movie over and over again.

I represent Cleveland. I was born and raised there and I appreciated it.

I always wanted to work. But I still probably would have finished school if my father was alive. I never wanted to let him down.

I come from a place where there was no way out.

We all know how this works. Unfair policy is introduced incrementally so people accept it because it only affects a small group. Then the unfair policy quietly evolves into institutional policy. I’m not sure what the technical term is for that because I didn’t finish college but I know it when I see it.

It’s hard to sleep with both eyes closed in this business. It’s a lot more mental than people think.

I was never really angry, but I was definitely protective, and I was definitely sad in a lot of ways. Because, as a kid, you see other kids and their experience with their parents, and you want the same.

We used to say, There’s nothing cool about being a dummy.

As an agent – and I don’t like the word – you get the perception that it’s all about money. And it’s not all about that. You have a unique opportunity to help someone build great habits on and off the basketball floor. A lot of times they’re in situations they can’t control, the economic environment they grew up in.

We come from an environment that has been created in our industry that’s a ‘yes’ environment. Due to that environment, it has set back a lot of our youth that are not just basketball players, but young men who happen to be able to play the game of basketball really well.

I’ve always only known to work and there was never no handouts for me.

I was watching ‘The Godfather’ at a very young age.

I learned nothing at C.A.A.

Lucky Me’ is more than my story.

At the end of the day, I’m trying to find ways to do what we can and what’s best for our guys. So that’s what I do.

I think LeBron looked up to him as another person he could learn from, and LeBron is an avid learner.

The last thing you want to do is put a GM in a situation where he trades away an asset and then the guy walks out the door. Like, you can’t do business that way.

For anywhere – not Los Angeles, not Miami, not Detroit, Milwaukee – I think for LeBron, and for most athletes, the most important thing is about winning.

He was the father of the neighborhood and the voice of reason for everyone. Everything I needed to know to run my business and to be a good human being, I got right here from my father.

There are a lot of great people in Cleveland. It’s a great town.

Being young and black and going into a business where you are trying to establish position and where you are able to make business decisions with the lack of what people would call an education, not having a degree, no one wanted to give us a chance.

LeBron had no obligation to me. I was not entitled to anything. I wanted to be valuable.