Top 50 Gilbert Arenas Quotes

I’m a scorer. I score in volumes.

Defense comes with defensive concepts.

Chauncey Billups is really not a scoring guard.

I made myself into what I thought was a big-time player, and nobody in L.A. seemed to care or believe I was any good. When I started hearing I wouldn’t play in college, I would just let it simmer inside me and then be like, ‘Okay. That’s what you think? Okay.’ The number zero was the only way I could express that.

We know that if we play our game and execute, then we are going to have a lot of success.

Boundaries? What are those?

I don’t want to get married unless they change the marriage laws. You should have to sign a marriage contract for no more than five years, with an option to opt out.

I was in honors classes in high school. I’d get an A on every test, but I had a 1.9 grade point average. The teacher would say, ‘You didn’t do your homework.’ I’d say, ‘But isn’t the homework supposed to be the lead-up to the test?’

That’s all I drink is Vitamin Water.

I’m smarter than the average; I just act dumb. That’s what gets people’s attention; you act dumb, you get people’s attention.

Basketball is basketball. I don’t think people realize that. No matter what city, overseas, D-league, park league – I just want to play.

Drama sells.

When you’re a scorer, you are thinking about scoring, and everything comes easy.

I don’t think anyone’s worth $100 million if Michael Jordan wasn’t, but hey, that’s what Abe Pollin thought I was worth, and if someone puts $100 million in front of you, you’re gonna take it, too.

I just want to go out there and play.

I always try to find something funny in any situation.

Since I was small, my dad and I have always been friends. He was never really hard on me. He never really pushed me to basketball.

I have a pair of my signature shoes, and I can’t believe I got my own shoe. That’s amazing!

I am lighter than Paul Pierce.

I used to practice those trampoline dunks back at Golden State. I can flip and everything.

I’m a goof. C’mon, everyone knows that.

If you have a kid that loves basketball – that eats, sleeps, drinks, and thinks basketball, and all he knows is basketball – and he gets hurt, and he’s your franchise player, you need to hold him back from himself.

I can interact with anybody, but I’m shy.

If you like Five Guys burgers, and you’re in California, I was one of the people who helped bring it here.

Dreams do come true, no matter what people say.

As happy as I am off the floor, on the floor I’m the opposite. I don’t take any crap.

Fans saying a player is overpaid doesn’t bother a player. What bothers an injured player is watching your competitors grow.

When you’re in there getting buckets, you’re not really paying attention to who’s there. You’re just doing your thing.

When you’re on fire, you’re on fire.

You never want an injury as you’re getting ready for the playoffs.

Like the Wizards, Madame Tussauds has become a fixture in the nation’s capital and one that I’m proud to be a part of.

I check out my MySpace. I’ll go on sites to see what’s funny on YouTube.

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.

40-minute game at Duke – they got soft rims – I’d probably score 84 or 85. I wouldn’t pass the ball. I wouldn’t even think about passing it. It would be like a ‘NBA Live’ or an ‘NBA 2K7’ game: you just shoot with one person.

I’ve always been a scorer. So when I went to Arizona, I led the team in scoring both years.

How can I tell somebody, ‘Don’t shoot that shot’ when I’m out there chunking ’em?

I’m a huge gamer and have been playing ‘NBA Live’ since 1995.

I’m a shooter. You don’t lose your shooting touch.

You get paid on what you did, not what you’re gonna do. That’s what people don’t understand. You get paid on what you did.

I always go against the odds.

I make shots, and that’s what I am.

They welcomed me here in Orlando and wanted me to just be me.

I can lack communication with people. I shy away from everybody. I always want to be alone.

When I was little, whenever I got out of the shower, I never wanted to touch the floor because once you touch the floor, your feet are dirty again. So in the shower, I used to put my socks on already without drying them off.

Zero is the number of minutes people predicted I would play my freshman year at Arizona.

You can’t start anything and not trust nobody. You trust everybody until they do something wrong.

I think every athlete should give back to schools. I know athletes donate and have things that they give charity to, but, at the end of the day, it’s the younger generation that we need to be helping.

I was an only child.

I don’t sleep. I nap.

We’re humans. We live on land. Sharks live in water. So if you’re swimming in the water and a shark bites you, that’s called trespassing. That is called trespassing. That is not a shark attack.