Matt Harvey Quotes

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.

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.

Of course it's normal for people to say, 'Yeah, this player changed teams because of the money.' That could be the case sometimes, but after a certain level of success? No.

I love to play for Pittsburgh. If they can't afford me, then I'd love to play in L.A. or New York.

Many players want to make as much money as they can and change teams for ten grand. How is that going to make much difference to their lives?

I did not want to leave the Mets and I did not want to leave New York.

You realize it's a business and that teams are going to do what's best for them. That's how it is. That's what we sign up for as a Major League Baseball player.

I'm a Chicago kid. So, of course, I'm open to playing for the Chicago Bulls if that's a team that's interested in me. At the same time, any decision that is made, it's never personal. It's always business. I have to make the right decision for me and my family.

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

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

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

The Boys of Summer were heroes in Brooklyn for a full postwar decade partly because the players could not entertain higher offers.

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

Baseball has all the money.

Not being re-signed in Baltimore was probably the lowest point, mentally, of my career. That city was the only place where I wanted to be at the time, based on everything that had transpired.

In all my years of being with Pittsburgh, I never encountered a player taking a contract dispute into the season and letting that dispute affect the way he played.

The fan is the one who suffers. He cheers a guy to a .350 season then watches that player sign with another team. When you destroy fan loyalties, you destroy everything.

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

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.

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.

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.

I guess when you get paid over 100 million dollars by one team, it's kind of easy to point the finger at other guys and try to hate on them for trying to get another contract.

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