Michael Carter-Williams Quotes

I know I can play in the NBA, and I can be a very good player in the NBA.

I was one of the best players in the NBA.

I believed I could play in the NBA.

I would like to say I do some pretty good impressions. I'm also one of the best basketball players in the world. I just chose not to go the NBA route, but people say I'm better than Kobe and LeBron.

Everyone around me, my family and my friends, always said that, 'You have to play for Miami Heat.'

Getting to the NBA really helped me personally on a lot of levels. I liked it so much that I wanted to stay there.

My confidence level is, I think I can be a first-round pick; I think I can be a professional basketball player.

My dream is to play someday in the NBA.

I know people that was playing basketball better than me. If they were in the NBA, they could be All-Stars, those people. They just never had the opportunity to go play professional basketball in Europe.

Given a full summer to practice basketball, and especially my jump shot, I know that I could play in the NBA and do well.

Trying to make the NBA is one of the very few areas where a Harvard degree won't necessarily help.

If this acting thing doesn't work, I'd just put in my resume for NBA.com. I'm a really huge basketball fan... I'll talk all sorts of trash.

The NBA has the best point guards in the world, so it is important that I come ready to play every night.

I didn't get a ton of interest from colleges in baseball and football, but I was outstanding in track and had the sense that this would be my meal ticket... Track was a sport where I saw immediate improvement, and I had a lot of good support behind me... and the coaches had a lot of experience and pushed me in that direction for sure.

I was invited to play with the New York Knicks. I was never drafted, but I was invited to the rookie camp.

When I was younger, I just thought about playing in the NBA.

My dream was to be in the NBA. I wasn't really focused on being a star player on a team. I just wanted to make it to the NBA. I've been blessed for the opportunities to be in the Finals, been in the playoffs ever since I've been in the NBA.

There is no such thing as a perfect basketball player, and I don't believe there is only one greatest player either.

Millions of guys play millions of basketball games every day of the week at the playground or the YMCA. But LeBron James gets $20 million a year because he can jam on all of those guys. We're always going to want to see LeBron and Kobe go at it.

I love to cook like a mad man. If I could do it all over again? I would be a NBA basketball player.

I'm not like the next Michael Jordan, but I'm also not what everyone saw me as before I started playing in the NBA, either.

Obviously, I'm not chasing the NBA.

You've got to work your way into the NBA. Guys like Seth Curry, it took him a couple years in the G-League.

When I came out in the draft, people kept asking me, 'So are you a small forward or a power forward?' and I was like, 'I'm a basketball player.' Period.

I don't come from any type of entertainment. I come from a basketball family. My dad still says, 'Trevor, are you sure don't want to play basketball? You can play in college and go to the NBA!' But I did play.