Most kids would be like, 'My dad's never around.' But I saw it as a positive. He was out there working to provide for me. Gilbert Arenas More Quotes by Gilbert Arenas More Quotes From Gilbert Arenas 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. Gilbert Arenas hard-work careers hurt Individual honors come with team success. Gilbert Arenas individual team honor 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. Gilbert Arenas mistake people world When you're in that zone there's nothing really the defense can do ... It doesn't matter who's sticking you because everything looks good. Gilbert Arenas defense matter looks I want to be the best in whatever I do. Gilbert Arenas being-the-best want 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. Gilbert Arenas hard-work years thinking A woman gave my dad $400 so we could get an apartment. We were living in a park. That's how we got started: Four hundred bucks, and look at me. When I donate a computer to a school, I never know what's going to come out of it. Gilbert Arenas dad looks school When something drastic happens in our life, one person goes and hides and doesn't want to be seen. That's what I did. [Others] want to stand up and fight and think they're tough. Like if someone gets shot, you're either scared of guns or you think you're Superman. In my situation, I wanted to hide. I didn't want to be seen anymore. Gilbert Arenas fighting gun thinking As happy as I am off the floor, on the floor I am the opposite. I don't take any crap. Gilbert Arenas crap opposites Everyone is having sex until they fall in love. When you fall in love, then it's making love. Gilbert Arenas falling-in-love making-love sex I hate it when you see talented teams with a lot of scorers and they can't get along with each other. Gilbert Arenas i-hate team hate As a player leaving early, you always look back and wonder what could have been. But you have to be happy with your decisions, because you ultimately have to live with them. Gilbert Arenas leaving decision player You don't want to be too uptight about anything. Especially your job. Gilbert Arenas uptight want jobs This sport is just crazy. Your worst enemy in college is your teammate and friend when you get to the NBA. Who would have thought it? Gilbert Arenas crazy college sports You have to do everything to help your team out. I have the ability to rebound, so I might as well go and do it to help my team win. Gilbert Arenas team winning might I'm still trying to be a kid. I really don't want to feel like an adult. Gilbert Arenas adults trying kids On the road, I eat hamburgers every day. The team tries to get me to eat differently, but no. Burgers, burgers, burgers. I like burgers. McDonald's burgers. Wendy's burgers. Burger King burgers. There's this one place in Canada - I even look at the schedule to find out when we play there - best burger I've ever tasted. Real soft and sweet. I ate twelve of them in one night. Gilbert Arenas team kings sweet I look at my elders as the leaders. Gilbert Arenas leaders look elders When people think about me, that's all they think: 'He's crazy. He's psycho. He's this.' No, that was just my blog; that was Agent Zero; that was my persona that I was putting out there. And eventually, that all caught up with me. Gilbert Arenas think me crazy people We're humans. We live on land. Sharks live in water. So if you're swimming in the water and a shark bites you, that's called trespassing. That is called trespassing. That is not a shark attack. Gilbert Arenas live you swimming water
