Jose Reyes Quotes

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

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

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.

You always think you're one of those players who will be in one place the whole time, one of those guys they'll never let leave because you play hurt, do what it takes. But it's a different age. A lot of coaches, they like having younger guys.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Rafa Benitez promised me a certain development, but very quickly he took away that promise and it was a totally different situation.

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

That's obviously not easy. I don't want to leave the Mets; I don't want to not play in New York. It's not at all that I want to leave, but that's the business.

You cannot be mad at somebody for wanting to play for another team.

Owners are made to be hated. We're the guys that trade away your favorite player.

Why did I come to Spurs? It just felt right.

I'm always hesitant to make any serious moves because you never know how the N.F.L. will treat you, you know?

You never know when this can be gone. It's sad to say, but with all the injuries around the league, it can be gone in a blink of an eye.

You don't play eight years and all of a sudden let your game go down just for a trade.

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.

You see great players, Hall of Fame players that didn't stay with their team.

Unfortunately, I had to pull out of Vancouver. I'm really sorry; I didn't expect to go this far in Rogers Cup, and I just wanted to say, just apologize.

We understand the realities of the sports world. Take Shaq for example, he was traded from here and went on to several other teams after that. But once he was retired, he asked us to retire his jersey. He wanted to be remembered as a Laker.

Midseason trades are hard.

I was seriously thinking about having a very short basketball career before the trade because of all the losing that I experienced with the Warriors, and being blamed for the Warriors demise.