CARMELO ANTHONY QUOTES
American basketball player (1984- )
When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them.
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Twitter post, Sep. 22, 2011
Always stay true to yourself. Some people will like it, some people won't. Life goes on.
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Twitter post, Oct. 14, 2011
You make your own party.
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Esquire, Jan. 2005
Success is the result of psychologically preparing for it, prior to achieving it!
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Twitter post, Dec. 3, 2011
I think people fail to realize that teams and organizations have been stacking teams since way back in the day. The Lakers had the Showtime era. Boston had six hall of famers on one team. You had Detroit, the New York Knicks, and now the Miami Heat. They were stacking their teams back then, it just fell off over the years and now it picked back up. Boston did it first, then LA. I was fortunate enough to play against them when they had Shaq, Kobe, Rick Fox, Gary Payton, Karl Malone... that's five hall of famers on one team! So you can't get mad at Miami for doing what they did.
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GQ, Oct. 11, 2011
Right now, we as a team and myself, we set a standard, we kind of teased the city of New York a little bit. Because now everybody expects us to play at this level, this high level, that's where we hold ourselves accountable and push ourselves in this offseason to come back and be at that level or even better.
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New York Daily News, May 20, 2013
I'm a classical type of guy. Whatever's out at that point in time, I like it. I just put my own twist on it, and we go from there.
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GQ, Oct. 11, 2011
No one is perfect. I know there is stuff that I need to work on, and not just one thing, but my game overall. Everything can get better.
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Inside Hoops, Jun. 14, 2003
The only person I ever wanted to meet was Muhammad Ali. And of all the people I've ever met, he's the one who most impressed me. It's tough to listen to him. You gotta have patience. But you see how strong his mind is. Even now, he's one of the most intelligent people on the planet.
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Esquire, Jan. 2005
My sun sets to rise again.
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Twitter post, Jul. 18, 2013
When you're going to games, you're going to work -- and that's something that, over the years, I've had to gravitate to. The NBA's a Fortune 500 company. That's how you look at it. And all the other Fortune 500 companies out there in the world, you don't see their CEOs and COOs going to work with white tees and baggy clothes and stuff like that. So I have to take that same approach.
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Esquire, Nov. 2009
Family time is the best time.
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Twitter post, Jan. 1, 2014
I'm me. I'm just out there being myself. I like having fun. But at the same time, I bring everybody together. So I'm really -- or I try to be -- like the glue of the team.
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interview, ESPN, Jul. 25, 2008
When you look back, recap this whole season it's just some detail-oriented things that we kind of got to fix. We're right there. I believe we're right as a team, as a unit, the guys we have on this team, we're right there. I'm a big believer in that. I'm very confident.
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New York Daily News, May 20, 2013
I never envisioned myself playing for the U.S. Olympic team -- growing up, I never envisioned playing in the NBA, to be real with you. I never envisioned that type of stuff. So this is like a dream that I never had come true. It's like I'm a part of what's really going on. It's still very hard for me to believe that I am really going to be a part of the biggest thing in the whole entire world.
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interview, ESPN, Jul. 25, 2008
When I was young, I was sold on winning. I was always serious on the court. As I got older, I realized that it was just a basketball game. Just go out there and have fun.
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Inside Hoops, Jun. 14, 2003
It bothers me to hear people talk about things they know nothing about.
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Twitter post, Oct. 10, 2011
I want to retire in New York, let's be quite frank. I think a lot of people jumped the gun when I said I wanted to be a free agent. And yeah, I want people to come to play in New York. I want them to want to play in New York. I want New York to be that place where guys want to come play.
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interview, ESPN, Nov. 1, 2013
If I were president? First thing I'd do is take care of the schoolteachers. I'm not saying we should start 'em out with six figures, but in some places they've got to be mother, father, brother, sister, and mentor. They're real important people. Let's give 'em a raise -- and attract the best people to the job.
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Esquire, Jan. 2005
I want to be a free agent. I think everybody in the NBA dreams to be a free agent at least one time in their career. It's like you have an evaluation period. It's like if I'm in the gym and I have all the coaches, all the owners, all the GMs come into the gym and just evaluate everything I do. So yes, I want that experience.
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New York Post, Oct. 16, 2013