Quotes from Dwyane Wade

Yeah, I play a lot of point guard. LeBron plays a lot of point guard. A lot of people are thinking too much on positions.

I'm on a team with LeBron James and Chris Bosh, and they both dress well. It gets competitive. If I don't bring my A game, they're going to outshine me.

You know, 10 years ago I never thought I'd be in this position. It's a dream and I don't even know if I dreamed this big.

I think everything happens as it's supposed to. I don't want to force anything. I want it to be so authentic that it's seamless.

I've been successful in different areas, but nothing brings a smile to my face more than my oldest son, Zaire, and my second son, Zion, saying the kind word of 'Dad.'

I wanted to be a football player. Football is a sport that I love, but the more I started playing basketball, the more I started dreaming of playing in the NBA.

I love to sing some Beyonce - ya know, like 'All the Single Ladies.' I'll sing that - maybe not with the body shakin' - but I'll have a little bit of the hand movement going on.

I love football. I'll watch the NFL before I watch any NBA.

Yes, it's true - I love the roar of the crowd. When the fans are with you, their voices come together in a big booming rush of sound that you can actually feel in your body - almost like a wave that lifts you and carries you past your own limits.

I understand being the villain is what people like. People play to that. They want to know about the villain.

I'm a firm believer in God and I don't think he'd want me acting a certain way.

I've stuck by being modest, honest and humble, because I think you'll get more appreciated that way and we all want to be appreciated in this world.

There is only a relationship between music and sports because all athletes want to be rappers and all rappers want to be athletes.

The Miami Heat floor is great, but a lot of them are not.

I grew up in Chicago, and I understand what Michael Jordan symbolizes.

Anytime an artist puts your name in a song, it's unbelievable. It never gets old.

All children need their fathers, but boys especially need fathers to teach them how to be men.

I understand that I'm not perfect. I made mistakes and I had a hand in everything that's happened to me, good and bad.

People don't need to necessarily see me in the jersey to understand who I am and what message I'm trying to get across with the things that I'm marketing.

I'm scared of needles.

Unless you sit down and talk to your dad and say, 'Why weren't you there?' and he says, 'I'm going to really tell you the truth,' then you won't know.

I grew up in the inner city of Chicago, and then I moved to Robbins, and it kind of raised me. When I was in college, I actually had them change the starting lineup to say 'from Robbins, Illinois' instead of 'Chicago, Illinois.'

At 9 years old, I moved in with my father because my mother could no longer care for me. Looking back, I now see so many similarities between my own childhood and that of my sons. My father stepped in when I needed him, and that gave me the chance for a better life. That's what I'm doing for my boys now.

My upbringing involves individuals who helped me along the way. I don't think I would be here today without that support.