Michael Carter-Williams Quotes

Come on, when does it come to the point where your name can't come up in trade talks? Willie Mays got traded. Pedro Martinez got traded. So what? That's part of the game.

In the beginning, when I signed with Miami, they said they were never gonna trade me, and then, after first year, boom, they traded me to Toronto.

The contracts are structured different than athletes in America, but for me, it was good to move on and go back to playing in the premiere league, which is the best league. It was disappointing, as far as the team goes, but for me, there wasn't much I could do.

I'd often wondered what would I do if I were ever traded, because it happened many, many times.

And historically the owners have used loyalty to a team or a city to hold players as opposed to always paying their worth.

I can hardly think of any players that have really walked out of their own volition while there were still teams that really wanted them at a fair price.

There have been few players that haven't been traded over the years in the NBA.

Whenever you get traded out and you are playing for a winning team, it's always good.

I think the big thing with Philly is I have such a great relationship with all the personnel decision makers that if there ever does come a day where I am traded or something does happen, it's going to be an open conversation.

I'm loyal to Portland. I want to play my whole career here, but at any moment, they can decide we want somebody else.

Today, free agency takes away a lot of your heroes, they go somewhere else. Some of them don't but a lot of them do-take the higher offer to go somewhere else. And, it turns the fans off because they get attached to the players.

Free agency screws everybody's allegiances up. Whether it be football, baseball, hockey, basketball, whatever it may be. It's really hard.

One thing I know in baseball is you should never be comfortable where you are. It doesn't matter who you are. It's a business. If I got traded tomorrow, no hard feelings; it's a business.

The Red Sox believe what's written. If it's written that I should be traded, more times than not, that's what ends up happening. Look at the people who've gotten traded around here. It's not their doing.

I have gone from a player who thought he would spend his whole career with one organization to a player who's been with three organizations in a week. It's like rotisserie baseball.

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.

Obviously, in the NBA, there's a lot of different decisions that people make. The whole thing in the NBA is that people sometimes have an opportunity to go where they want.

Nobody wants to give up good players.

As a professional athlete, the small print says there could be a trade at some point in your career. Sometimes expected, sometimes not. You have to be able to handle that.

In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea.

It's a business. But as a player, it sucks to know you were just thrown into a trade for it to work.

You know, my first nine years I only played for two teams, Chicago and New York. And the only reason I got traded from New York was the 2010 free agency period, when they had a chance to sign LeBron and D-Wade and that whole class, and I understood that. But from there it's kind of been a roller coaster.

One of the things about the NBA is anybody could be traded.

In the NBA, you're never immune to rumors and trade rumors and free agency stuff.

Everybody - come on - everybody is going to get traded at some point.