Quotes from Gilbert Arenas

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.

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

When I leave the NBA, I don't want my legacy to be, 'He won a championship ring.' I want my legacy to say, 'He played for the people. He gave everybody in the world hope that they can be just like him.'

They didn't say all wins in the NBA are all pretty.

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

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

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

Chauncey Billups is really not a scoring guard.

I was on my way to becoming a Hall of Famer and having my name in the rafters, but three surgeries in 14 months, that is not good. I wasn't the same player.

It is an honor to join the ranks of sports icons such as Muhammad Ali and Tiger Woods by being immortalized in wax at Madame Tussauds Washington, D.C.

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

I can't take a game-winner in practice. I can't shoot free throws in practice that simulates the game. There's no crowd; there's no nothing.

Everything is mental, but if you just remember to stay with your same technique, you will be fine. If you stay confident, make sure you are doing the same thing over and over; the free throws will fall.

I lost all feeling a long time ago. Basketball is basketball. It doesn't matter what floor I'm on.

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

When I was little, I asked God if I could meet my mom just one more time, and my prayer was answered in 2001. It was weird.

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?'

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 never imagined that I would see my face on the cover of an EA Sports videogame.

You know, that's all basketball is. If someone loves something, and you take it away, it's like what does he do now? What does someone do? That's what happened with me.

I just put my anger and resentment into basketball. Even the stuff from my childhood.

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

You can't fault a player because he got injured.

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