Free Agency Quotes

I do not believe in free will. Schopenhauer's words: 'Man can do what he wants, but he cannot will what he wills,' accompany me in all situations throughout my life and reconcile me with the actions of others, even if they are rather painful to me. This awareness of the lack of free will keeps me from taking myself and my fellow men too seriously as acting and deciding individuals, and from losing my temper.

There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please.

I trust the individual over the bureaucracy.

You can do what you will, but in any given moment of your life you can will only one definite thing and absolutely nothing other than that one thing.

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

As for Seattle, we are rebuilding - no doubt about it. And in the WNBA, it's not easy to rebuild. You can't dangle millions in front of quality free agents.

You cannot be mad at somebody for wanting to play for another team.

I'm loyal to Portland. I want to play my whole career here, but at any moment, they can decide we want somebody else.

God made man to be free. Anybody can do whatever they want.

You always do what you want to do. This is true with every act. You may say that you had to do something, or that you were forced to, but actually, whatever you do, you do by choice. Only you have the power to choose for yourself.

Baseball has changed dramatically since I began my tenure with the Yankees.

The key to your universe is that you can choose.

The great paradox of determinism and free will, which has held the attention of the wisest of philosophers and psychologists for generations, can be phrased in more biological terms as follows: If our genes are inherited, and our environment is a train of physical events set in motion before we were born, how can there be a truly independent agent within the brain? The agent itself is created by the interaction of the genes and the environment. It would appear that our freedom is only a self delusion.

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

To be candid with you, free agency hurts all sports. It's great for athletes making an enormous amount of money. But to say it helps the sports, I don't believe that.

I think it's hard to compare the NBA and the WNBA, but the thing about the NBA is they just have a ton of movement every year, but the WNBA doesn't. Free agency is not set up that way; the money is obviously not set up that way, so when one player moves, it could set the stage for, literally, like, six or seven years.

Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?

A free man is he that, in those things which by his strength and wit he is able to do, is not hindered to do what he has a will to.

My last two years at Buffalo, I've had so many trade requests. Rumors every year.

It's just part of the NFL. There's going to be moving parts constantly. There's going to be roster changes. There's going to be coaches going somewhere else.

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

He was free, free in every way, free to behave like a fool or a machine, free to accept, free to refuse, free to equivocate; to marry, to give up the game, to drag this death weight about with him for years to come. He could do what he liked, no one had the right to advise him, there would be for him no Good or Evil unless he thought them into being.

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

I play baseball. I don't deal with trades, free agency, any of that stuff.

That's obviously not easy. I don't want to leave the Mets; I don't want to not play in New York. It's not at all that I want to leave, but that's the business.