Quotes from Spencer Dinwiddie

I think there's a difference between internal confidence and situational confidence and understanding.

Look at it like this: I won the Skills Challenge and didn't get invited back.

You have those times where you bump heads with your parents because they want you to do this, or you want to do that, or whatever it is, and that's just kind of life. She was just always like that safe place, and obviously she was the matriarch of the family, my mom's best friend.

You have to know yourself so well and be able to put it on whatever display you want to put it on and be confident in that and be fine with it.

Traditional solutions as they stand are designed to aid the centralized party. That's how it always has been. It will continue to be for the near future. As we evolve and we continue to gain more power and understanding, centralized bodies die down because there's more power to the individual.

The NBA is a job. Just like any other job complaining about opportunity doesn't solve anything. The only thing you can do is control what you can control, and when you are at peace with the work you put in then you don't have any regrets and that's truly the main thing about this journey.

I'm a real mellow guy, for the most part - yeah, no, not with Kobe. By far my favorite player of all time. His career was basically my childhood.

I basically started to adopt the mentality of, I'm going to say what I'm going to say. I'm not going to apologize about it. At the very least, y'all are going to know what I'm thinking.

I just can identify with that mentality of feeling that you should be the best, putting in the work, and then kind of being that backup or being that second guy and being like, nah, this isn't good enough for me, I'm going to be the best.

When you get to a point of stop trying to not mess up and just playing basketball, you've got that base of comfortability.

If I can reach a half-million people with the click of a button, that's more powerful than finding half of a million people to give a dollar to.

Super Saiyan' is a term from 'Dragonball Z,' the most important TV show ever. The main character, Goku, is a member of the alien race known as Saiyans. When Saiyans train to a certain level - and get really angry - they transform into what's known as a Super Saiyan: their hair gets all spiky and they get crazy, crazy strong.

If you misquote me, I'll come out and be like, they misquoted me. This is what I said. This is exactly how I meant it. Whether you believe me or not, don't really care.

You have to kind of embrace the duality of every moment.

The most powerful thing billionaires have isn't their voice. It's earth-shattering, continent-moving, war-starting amounts of money.

I'm motivated for every single game.

Just like basketball, MMA is all about taking what you're given and exploiting it as much as possible. Strength and stamina are important, but a clear mind might be your biggest asset. Of course, keeping a clear mind while someone twists your arm behind your head isn't all that easy.

I'm really just a dude that cooks, plays with his son and thinks about stuff in his spare time outside of dedicating about six hours or so to basketball stuff.

You just feel good when you know you've got something nice on, something special.

Being in New York as a whole, Brooklyn as well, you can do anything you want. That's by far the best part about New York, besides just the hustle and grit and grind of Brooklyn specifically, but the best food. Anybody you want to get in contact with, odds are if they don't live in New York, they're passing through New York at some point in time.

I've pretty much been in every situation in terms of the roster... like roster spot 1-15.

I stand up for what I believe in and what I believe is right.

People still find themselves four or five years out of the league and needing money, and that's because you establish a lifestyle you can't keep up with. Guys don't want to decrease to a $10,000 a month lifestyle when they've been used to $75,000.

People may not like what I have to say - obviously, I get the sarcastic nickname of 'Siri,' because they say I know things.