Gilbert Arenas

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.

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.

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

I look at my elders as the leaders.

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

When people think about me, that's all they think: 'He's crazy. He's psycho. He's this.' No, that was just my blog; that was Agent Zero; that was my persona that I was putting out there. And eventually, that all caught up with me.

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.

Some people just can't forgive. And that's just the way life is. You know, I can't forgive some things, either.

I have so much entertainment going on in my house that I don't need to go out.

I want politicians coming to me and asking me for advice.

When I look back on my career, from the hard work I put in, I got everything I deserved.

That's what I was known for: I was a gym rat.

Most kids would be like, 'My dad's never around.' But I saw it as a positive. He was out there working to provide for me.

John Wall - me and him talk a lot.

When you blink, you're on the back end of your career.

I feel like most ex-NBA players don't embrace the team they played for.

I lived in Washington longer than I have lived anywhere else, so it's considered home, even though I moved back to California.

I think I'm one of the rare people out there who still cares about the game of basketball.

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

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

I always go against the odds.

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

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.

I'm an app creator.

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?'

People call me all kinds of things, I guess, because I'm a little different. I'm never what they expect.

Fans love me because I connect with them. No other superstar can do that.

Chauncey Billups is really not a scoring guard.

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

I'm a scorer. I score in volumes.

Drama sells.

I have the mind-set that a guard can't stick me. So I watch the bigs and see how they like to play. If you're a shot blocker, then I jump into you. If you take charges, then I pull up for the midrange.

I'm mentally strong.

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

I always try to find something funny in any situation.

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

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.

When I was little, I looked in the mirror and held the Bible in my hand - that's how I talked to God. I never just asked for stuff. The way I saw it, if you give Him something, you get something.

My best moment in the league came when I scored my first bucket.

I got three 'Tiger Woods' games for my Xbox just in case one gets scratched.

At the end of the day, you have 82 games. You're going to win some division games, and you're going to lose some division games.

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

You don't want to be too uptight about anything. Especially your job.

I really don't want to feel like an adult.

Some people would rather not go to arenas; they'd rather just sit at home and watch the game at home or play on the computer.

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

I always have something going on.

When I went through my life, I was like, 'I sit around and play video games all day. Nobody wants to hear about this.'

You don't wear leather bucket hats in Vegas.

I just want to go out there and play.