Gilbert Arenas Quotes

Players earn their wages, their livelihoods, and their right to compete to win things out on the pitch and not off it.

It's a very competitive thing, pro sports. The hardest thing in pro sports is staying up there.

I get paid to play football and show everything I've got.

Players and coaches alike, you sign up for 82 games. You get paid for 82.

I love my job. If I have a chance to play against some of the top talent in the world or whether it's against guys around the corner, I'm going to play.

I love it. In the NFL, you win or you lose, and the money still shows up.

Football players have always got a problem, some pain, and in some games, I have had small problems with my knee or some pain, and I played anyway, but people don't know if I have a problem or not. People just know if you score a goal or if you play badly, but they never know if you are well or not.

I had a lot of doubt coming into my career about being an elite point guard in this league.

I think every athlete is afraid for their career to be over.

I want to be a starter in this league.

I don't just want to be the best player in the NBA, I want to be the highest paid.

It's the NBA summer league and everyone's out there fighting. It's been a great experience for me.

Experience is everything in this league.

Just being in the whole environment around the IPL, around the people that you ge to play with and against means it's going to be really, really good.

I play cricket for the competitive side of it.

I am paid to play, and the coaches are paid to plan, and that is what they have to do.

All I want to do is get on the pitch and perform, and hopefully, that will do the talking.

I think, bottom line, I have to be good enough to make the team. I have to bring something in and beat somebody else out, especially with a smaller roster for the Olympics.

I have a couple of friends who have gone pro in sports, and if you are off by an inch, it's an entire mindgame for the next week. That's how it works: like, your whole world is based around an inch. Being an actor, your whole world turns on an inch, too.

Ever since I stepped into this league and realized I can play here and be one of the best players in the league, getting paid has never been on my mind. Because I know it's going to happen.

Kicking's kicking. Pressure's pressure. You beat other guys just to get drafted.

I think it's normal to have competition once you get to the professional level.

The job is always with you, 24/7. I played over 400 games as a player and the highs aren't as high when you win and when you're a player the low isn't as low when you get beaten. It really spikes and dips as a manager.

Clearly finals are one-off games and they always depend on starting well in order to impose yourself on the game.

I'm a professional footballer, and I get paid for doing my job.