Matt Barnes Quotes

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.

When I played, the owners had the power. The prisoners are running the prison now, not the warden. The warden is strong and he has say so but, the balance of power is definitely with the players.

The NBA believes if you play for a team and get paid by a team, you're the property of that team for 24 hours a day.

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.

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

Players can't really control where they go, can't control what a coach thinks of them or if a club wants to sell them.

It is up to the players and their advisers to see what is best for the player.

I'm a believer that players are good self-directors, and I think one thing that's good about video games is they can direct their own experience.

I love the fact that players have control of where they want to play.

I have never made a game that wasn't explicitly about empowering players to tell their own story.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Growing up, I loved what Kobe did and Dirk did. My intentions are to stay with the Pelicans my whole career, but if something happens, I wouldn't leave because I hate the place. It's just the business.

Why would I accept to earn less money to play for Barcelona? Why are players the ones supposed to sacrifice themselves?

A player-led team is better than a coach-led team, no doubt.

The art of coaching is to give a player freedom to bring out his talent. It is the player's responsibility for what happens once they are on the pitch.

The NBA is a beautiful job in a lot of ways. But for living stability, thinking you're going to be somewhere for a long time, it's not for that.

I think players of the national team are not entitled to make an opinion about who is making the team and who is not. At least in my days it was like that.

Play the way you want to play. I want to give as much power back over to the player as possible. That's where games are leaning: give me the tools, let me do what I want to do with it. Let me solve the problem the way I want to solve it - experience the combat the way I want to experience it.

I don't think it's right to think ahead to free agency.