Sue Bird Quotes

Every player looks forward to free agency.

I could have continued being a speechwriter for as long as I wanted.

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.

I'm a Chicago kid. So, of course, I'm open to playing for the Chicago Bulls if that's a team that's interested in me. At the same time, any decision that is made, it's never personal. It's always business. I have to make the right decision for me and my family.

I haven't been in a position to be a free agent or know what that is like and then to have the chance to go where you want to go. That's always been - I feel, with players, they want that option.

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

There really are so many lines of work that you can join that don't have to only be design. And that was one that particularly interested me a lot, because the editors could appreciate all the trends, all the designs and all the work of the designers.

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

I learned about the market's power when I was traded to the Buffalo Bills for $100.

I signed a very modest $3,000 bonus with the Braves in Milwaukee. And my old man didn't have that kinda money to put out.

I want to have the career that is my choice - what interests me, what doesn't. I feel more and more strongly about that.

I think doing 'Teen Wolf' is just giving me a really great opportunity to possibly get other jobs and show what I can do.

I want the kind of career where I can move back and forth.

Generally, the president's power and capital is used to close a deal and not always to negotiate bit by bit.

After 12 years in the major leagues, I do not feel that I am a piece of property to be bought and sold regardless of my wishes.

We all control our careers. Those choices that you make are so critical.

When it comes to setting the market values, I let that stuff take care of itself. I know my value in this league, and I know the team appreciates me. I'm going to continue to make myself an indispensable part of this roster. When you do that, when your time comes up to get a contract, you usually get a contract extension.

'House' has opened a lot of doors for me. I've met a whole bunch of people and got a whole new bunch of contacts. I've got the golden ticket.

I'll forever be grateful to NPR that they gave me such extraordinary freedom... It was 37 years of a fond relationship.

I got really good at negotiating from a place of weakness.

Price doesn't make deals, and salary doesn't control your career.

I want to see my career evolve into limitlessness.

If you go into a negotiating room and are like, 'Well I was on the same card as Conor McGregor, so maybe I should get a little bit more money,' they'll probably just look at you like, 'What? In what universe does that even make sense?' So I don't see how anyone could possibly think it's going to be a trickle-down effect.

I've done a lot of deals, and I'm skilled at negotiating, managing personalities, and getting parties to the table.

I didn't take the fight with Michael Grant because the timing wasn't right. They offered me a lot of money, but it wasn't in my best interest to take that fight. They were trying to use me to build up Michael Grant.