Bobby Bonilla Quotes

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

My last two years at Buffalo, I've had so many trade requests. Rumors every year.

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.

When I look at our roster, I'm sure all of you have printed that I'm coming up on 35, and given my situation and my salary structure and all that, yeah, I have to wonder if this team is going to make moves and they haven't.

Well, everybody is trying to make this a money thing. If you send me to another team, let's see what I ask for. I won't ask for nothing. I'll play under the same terms. So it is not Gary wants more money. Gary has money. What else do I need?

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

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.

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

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

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

Our job is to play basketball, not worry about trades.

I came into the league traded. So I'm not the only person that goes through trade rumors each year.

It's not very wise to keep a player who has just one year left on his contract and really wants to leave.

Every player looks forward to free agency.

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

Contracts are not a holy relic in football. You can like this attitude or not, but it's the truth. Sometimes you have to think about if it is meaningful to try out a new impulse.

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

The timeline is kind of coming to an end as far as leading up to free agency.

Some people want to stay with one team but they get traded.

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.

Unfortunately, there are no mulligans when it comes to pro football contracts.

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

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

I've seen where teams pay to get a player, like when Los Angeles paid to get Wayne Gretzky.