Carmelo Anthony Quotations | Page 3

I'm a Baltimore Ravens fan and I'm a Baltimore Orioles fan. I have them tattooed on me.

When I was young, I was sold on winning. I was always serious on the court. As I got older, I realized that it was just a basketball game. Just go out there and have fun.

Family time is the best time.

A lot of people I meet say, 'You remind me so much of Magic Johnson.'

I'm laid back, I take my time, get the job done. Lebron is high flying, dunking, passing the ball well. He's getting the job done, too. But we're different.

I don't think there could ever be more pressure to succeed than the pressure I place on myself.

I think I'll always want to improve my defense. That's something that can always be better. Not saying it's bad now, just something you should always work on.

I know there's a lot of pressure, but I'm just going to go out and play my game.

Although you do look at the big picture, if you're dealing with the now, it can be kind of frustrating. You're losing basketball games, things not going the way you want it to go or should go, but at the same time we've just got to stay with it. Just stay positive, just stay focused, as a team, as a unit, because the ship easily can sink early.

To go out there and play and have fun and hopefully win a championship. That's my goal.

We're still getting better as a team. We're still learning how to play basketball as a team and how to win tough games.

I kind of knew Cleveland was going to get the No. 1 pick. I think they rigged it. No, don't quote me on that.

It's easier for me to let the game just come to me.

It will work out, somehow. That's a hell of a duo right there, Marbury, Crawford and Houston.

There weren't any sports figures that I idolized because I didn't really believe in myself back then or think that I could make it here. There were some regular people in my neighborhood that I looked up to growing up but that was it.

Everything on my body has a meaning. I don't do art just because. It does look cool but it also has a meaning.

As a kid I couldn't afford any Jordans, so I didn't get my first pair until my last year of high school. They were Air Jordan 9s.

Play hard, learn as much as I can and do what I do best. The rest will take care of itself I think.

I never envisioned myself playing for the U.S. Olympic team -- growing up, I never envisioned playing in the NBA, to be real with you. I never envisioned that type of stuff. So this is like a dream that I never had come true. It's like I'm a part of what's really going on. It's still very hard for me to believe that I am really going to be a part of the biggest thing in the whole entire world.

You make your own party.

No one is perfect. I know there is stuff that I need to work on, and not just one thing, but my game overall. Everything can get better.

The NBAs a Fortune 500 company. Thats how you look at it. And all the other Fortune 500 companies out there in the world, you dont see their CEOs and COOs going to work with white tees and baggy clothes and stuff like that. So I have to take that same approach.

Look, I won in high school, I won a national championship in college, I want to win one in the NBA. But winning a gold medal, I don't think anything can top that.

I want to win. I don't care about the money,

I say 'come with it.' I'm not expecting anything easy. You have to earn your place. That's fine with me.

If you laugh, think, and cry; that's a full day.

I think I am a smarter player now.

I just don't want to get used to feeling this feeling, you know, losing basketball games.

It [boxing] helps my hand-eye coordination, my stamina, my footwork, and it gives me that competitive edge and drive. And in the ring it's mano-a-mano. So it helps you build that arrogance, that cockiness, that confidence in yourself that the man that stands in front of you isn't going to beat you, and that translates to the court.

A lot of people think that as a player, during the lockout, you just have your whole day free. It's not like that - especially for me. I wake up everyday, train in the morning from 9 a.m. to about 2 p.m. Then I have a business meeting here, have to meet this person there, it's non-stop for me.

It bothers me to hear people talk about things they know nothing about.

At this point in my career I'm not concerned about the money, it's about winning. Nothing else even matters.

Success is the result of psychologically preparing for it, prior to achieving it!

I want to retire in New York, let's be quite frank. I think a lot of people jumped the gun when I said I wanted to be a free agent. And yeah, I want people to come to play in New York. I want them to want to play in New York. I want New York to be that place where guys want to come play.

Allen Iverson is a ball hog. You will never win a championship with him on your team.

People only know what they see on TV.

How can U fairly assess someone from the outside looking in ... majority of the times you will be wrong.

I want to be a free agent. I think everybody in the NBA dreams to be a free agent at least one time in their career. It's like you have an evaluation period. It's like if I'm in the gym and I have all the coaches, all the owners, all the GMs come into the gym and just evaluate everything I do. So yes, I want that experience.

As a good player in the inner city, you're always hearing people saying that you're better than you really are and that you don't have to do things like everybody else.

Always stay true to yourself. Some people will like it, some people won't. Life goes on.

Nobody should expect more of you than you expect of yourself.

Every Morning You Have Two Choices: Continue To Sleep With Your Dreams, Or Wake Up and Chase Them.

You've got a lot of guys who are playing just as well as I am and deserve it.

The Clippers did a heck of a job packing it in on me, not letting me get to the basket like I wanted to and as I had been doing in the past. They sent every kind of defense a team can send at me these last two games. It got frustrating, especially when you're trying to get back in the game and whatever you do is not working.

(The loss) was a wake-up call for us. We can't take nothing for granted right now. These last 10 games, I think you'll see a better focus from the team.