Manny Machado Quotes

I've got to play free agency out, and I've got to look at all of my options.

When I entered free agency, I said whatever team I end up on, I'm going to work.

I've been a free agent a couple times now. It's a process. You got to be smart with your decisions.

I can't speak on anybody else's free agencies, how that's going, but for myself, it helps to kind of be patient and let it happen.

I went out as a free agent in Boston and had a great year and I priced myself out of there market, at the time.

I have gone from a player who thought he would spend his whole career with one organization to a player who's been with three organizations in a week. It's like rotisserie baseball.

Obviously, in the NBA, there's a lot of different decisions that people make. The whole thing in the NBA is that people sometimes have an opportunity to go where they want.

I can hardly think of any players that have really walked out of their own volition while there were still teams that really wanted them at a fair price.

If a franchise wants me, they'll take me.

I'm pretty sure every team in the NBA would love to have Paul Pierce on their team.

A lot of teams - they want a point guard and I am bouncing around, why not put me in those talks and try to get me?

Look at all of the pitchers getting six- and seven-year deals at 30, 31, and 32. You see what's going on and the money that's out there. You'd be a fool not to try to benefit from that, or at least try to get what you feel you're worth.

If we don't need the players who are available to sign, then why are we going to sign?

It's always that time of year around January where trade talks come.

Everybody - come on - everybody is going to get traded at some point.

When you're a free agent you want to be wanted.

My job was to play football the last 16 games and do my part, and then in the offseason, really, it's just sit back and let the team or other teams let you know that they want you.

It is time for everyone to sit down - the NCAA, the NBA, the players union and the coaching fraternity - and come up with suitable solutions to these problems.

The people who run the game, they are the ones who want to change it and make people believe that it's different somehow. It's not different, the only difference is that some ballplayers today have a chance for a four- or five-year contract and they can make big money.

Today, free agency takes away a lot of your heroes, they go somewhere else. Some of them don't but a lot of them do-take the higher offer to go somewhere else. And, it turns the fans off because they get attached to the players.

Free agency screws everybody's allegiances up. Whether it be football, baseball, hockey, basketball, whatever it may be. It's really hard.

My decision leaving the Nuggets was based on the organization not saying they had the cap room to sign me.

Rather than saying that the commissioner is hired by the owners and therefore is subservient to them, you have to look at whether or not the players are getting a fair shake.

I learned about the market's power when I was traded to the Buffalo Bills for $100.

A lot of players know I've been around 13 years and this is my second lockout. I got a lot of respect. I know what's going on both for the league and the union.