Amar'e Stoudemire Quotes

I think United is the best club for my style of play, and I am sure about my decision.

I would love to play for the Bucs. But that being said, I think if you find the team that wants you, that's going to be the right team.

I really felt Dortmund was the right club for me. They spoke to me and said the right things I wanted to hear.

My family and I took visits to each and every school and listened to each coaching staff. I felt the most comfortable with and really excited about playing at SC. Being close to home in one of the best offensive systems is paying off now as I'm making the jump to the pros.

I spoke with Van Gaal, and he said that I only had a one per cent chance of playing in my position, so I headed to Bayer.

When you go into free agency and have options, any team is up for you to be on - and the Raiders, obviously with me having been there for so long, have a great shot at it.

What I love about our league is that players have an opportunity in their career to be a free agent and decide where they want to invest their time and their talent, in whatever team and whatever system. They deserve that right. They've earned that right.

I don't understand the NBA in that, each time they bring in a one-and-done kid, they have to release a veteran player on a roster. I don't understand why their players association condones that.

It's not uncommon for a big free agent to come to a new club with a big contract and not perform up to his standards.

I don't know if I'm different from everybody else, but there's really only two things to me that are really, really important - recruiting good players in the program and developing those players once they get here.

I think I'd work a little more if I lived in L.A.

The Steelers run a great organization.

When things aren't going well, it's very easy to blame the coaching staff.

You cannot talk to a player who has a contract. It's not in my code.

I just feel at Paris, I will have more chances compared to Madrid. I'm French and I choose a French team. People must be happy to keep a French player in the league.

My relationships with the Duke coaches were the best, and they made me a priority.

I've started. I've come off the bench. I've not played. I've been on the worst team in the NBA. I've won championships.

I think it is inevitable that I'll be coaching or be a GM.

It was important to be with a coaching staff that didn't just believe in my football ability.

I chose Spurs and I think it's turned out well. I felt I was joining a great team, with great plans and the personal chats I had with people at Spurs were great.

The Suns keep great point guards here.

They fire coaches before players.

A lot of rookies don't come into the league and have that type of leeway that Coach Walton and his staff really gave me.

The N.F.L.'s rule on underclassmen should be abolished, and the N.B.A. should be discouraged from adding an age limit.

I've seen players in the past who wanted to stay with their team, and it didn't work out.