Gilbert Arenas Quotes

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When I hear about people murdering, I wonder, 'What has to go through your brain to say, I don't want him breathing anymore? What makes you get that angry? How can you take someone's breath away? That just blows my mind.'

Gilbert Arenas

Blow, Breathing, People

"Gilbert Arenas: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. September 23, 2010.

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The hibachi is coming to a city near you. I'm cooking chicken and shrimp, but if you want to throw a double team my way, filet mignon gets cooked too.

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Team, Cities, Cooking

"Win in New York" by Gilbert Arenas, www.nba.com. December 7, 2006.

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Everyone is gonna have a bad day, everyone is gonna have a bad game. The questions are: How do you recover? What builds your character? I decided one day early on in high school that I wanted to be great at basketball, not just a good basketball player.

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Basketball, Character, Bad Day

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I want to be the best at whatever I do. I don't care who gets in the way.

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Way, Care, Want

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Everybody get drunk and make bad decisions.

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Drunk, Decision, Bad Decision

"Top 11 D.C. Sports Moments of 2007". Gilbert Arenas' remarks at his 25th birthday party, voices.washingtonpost.com. 2007.

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My swag was phenomenal.

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Basketball, Sports, Swag

"Gilbert Arenas: The NBA's Colt Seavers?". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel and Michele Norris, www.npr.org. February 16, 2007.

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The thing that happened in Washington -- it happened. All you can do is just grow from it. That took a toll on me. That was probably -- I think if I could've bounced mentally out of that situation faster than I did, I would probably still be in the NBA. But since I couldn't understand why they were trying to treat me like that, I basically gave up. I just didn't want to be a part of it anymore.

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Thinking, Nba, Trying

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Why would I endorse the hibachi grill when I am the hibachi grill?

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Individual honors come with team success.

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Team, Honor, Individual

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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.'

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Nba, People, Legacy

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If your heart is bigger than the biggest guy on the team, then you're the biggest guy on the team.

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Team, Heart, Guy

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I always have something going on.

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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.

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Basketball, Doe, One Love

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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.

Gilbert Arenas

Mom, Prayer, Littles

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It sucks the way the world works. You can do a hundred things for people, but you do one bad mistake and everyone crucifies you and that's all they want to remember.

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Mistake, People, World

"Arenas opens up after lengthy hiatus from league, media". Interview with Sam Amick, www.si.com. February 20, 2012.

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I hate it when you see talented teams with a lot of scorers and they can't get along with each other.

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Hate, Team, I Hate

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Everyone is having sex until they fall in love. When you fall in love, then it's making love.

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Falling In Love, Sex, Making Love

"Gilbert Arenas: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. September 23, 2010.

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If you take away the last few years, from my last year in Washington, and you think about my career, there was nothing but hard work. I was in the gym three or four times a day, working on my skills. 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. That's what I was known for: I was a gym rat.

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Hard Work, Thinking, Years

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I found out this summer how to hook up my Xbox 360 in the hotel and get past security. It took me a while to figure out, but I got it now.

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Summer, Xbox, Past

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

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Jobs, Uptight, Want

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

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Basketball, Long, Feelings

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They gave high fives to all the players who say like the most obvious textbook answers in the world. It's like after each game, you already know what they're going to say. If they lost: "Ahh ... Tough loss." It's like, come on, how do you guys fall for that? And if they something that they really feel, everyone goes crazy. Like "Oohh! He's spazzing out!" Now he gotta say sorry for saying something he really felt. It's like, Oh lord.

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Sorry, Crazy, Fall

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I'm a jokester, so when I was joking on Twitter, it kinda rubbed people the wrong way. And I was like, I didn't make these up. I'm just letting you know they're there.

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People, Way, Wrong Way

"Zero Sum Game". Interview with Karan Madhok, www.slamonline.com. March 14, 2013.

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I try not to do the fantasy thing. If I didn't get hurt, what would I be? Who knows? When I look back on my career, from the hard work I put in, I got everything I deserved.

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Hurt, Hard Work, Careers

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I like when somebody says something negative about me because I can put it back in their face

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Negative, Faces, Because I Can

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Born: January 6, 1982
Occupation: Basketball player
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