Carmelo Anthony Basketball Quotes & Sayings

When I step on that basketball court, I'm thinking about basketball, I'm thinking about winning - but there's so much that goes into thought about how I'm going to open this game up to others. It's so much more than just basketball. — Carmelo Anthony

Using no control and using humor will build a relationship and make a dent to where the client puts the counselor in their quality world and then begins to relate and seek out the counselor. Effective therapy begins with the acceptance of the therapist into the client's quality world. — William Glasser

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

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

I got an owner that looks out for me. You can't beat that. — Carmelo Anthony

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

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. — Carmelo Anthony

Nobody should expect more of you than you expect of yourself. — Carmelo Anthony

I understand the NBA and the role I play on my team. I know that I have to play a leadership role and do whatever I have to do to win. — Carmelo Anthony

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

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. — Carmelo Anthony

I smile all the time, even when I'm in a bad mood. I always try to keep a smile on my face. — Carmelo Anthony

Every year it's been people saying I can't do this or I can't do that. Y'all will see something different, I can tell you that. — Carmelo Anthony

I think I am a smarter player now. — Carmelo Anthony

Love, faithful love, recalled thee to my mind
But how could I forget thee? — William Wordsworth

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

I have my own identity as a player. — Carmelo Anthony

And the sun had on a crown
Wrought of gilded thistledown,
And a scarf of velvet vapor
And a raveled rainbow gown;
And his tinsel-tangled hair
Tossed and lost upon the air
Was glossier and flossier
Than any anywhere. — James Whitcomb Riley

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. — Carmelo Anthony

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

You've got to have fun on the court. If you ain't having fun, then basketball ain't fun. — Carmelo Anthony

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. — Carmelo Anthony

I have had a lot of setbacks that I have learned from. — Susan Wojcicki

When I really like something, I try to put my all into it. This is something thats different from when I was growing up on the basketball court, running up and down, scoring 30 points or something. This is totally something different. — Carmelo Anthony

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. — Carmelo Anthony

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

I can't palm a basketball. — Carmelo Anthony

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. — Carmelo Anthony

I don't put pressure on myself. When I put pressure on myself, then I just play bad. When I play bad, my team plays bad. — Carmelo Anthony

Man, I think the sky is the limit for this team. — Carmelo Anthony

If you don't have that science and technology and brains as an input, as you don't have in large parts of Latin America, if you don't focus your education on that, if you don't find your 10,000 best scientists, but you do find your 10,000 best soccer players, the consequences are, you become a World Cup Champion in Soccer, like Brazil, but you don't become Korea, which earned 1/5 of what a Mexican did in 1975 and today earns five times more. — Juan Enriquez