Eric Davis Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

It's always that time of year around January where trade talks come.

Being traded a couple times - and I've been traded after winning Rookie of the Year - is out of your control.

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.

My decision leaving the Nuggets was based on the organization not saying they had the cap room to sign me.

The two major things that changed the makeup of all professional sports are money generated by television and courts that players went to in order to win their freedom as free agents.

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

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.

To be candid with you, free agency hurts all sports. It's great for athletes making an enormous amount of money. But to say it helps the sports, I don't believe that.

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.

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

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

You get traded. It happens. It's part of the business.

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

If I get traded, I get traded. It's a part of the business.