Carmelo Anthony Quotes

Just keep having fun. It's basketball. So that's what I'm going to keep doing.

I really do not think about 'Oh, right now I have to defend those points and this title.' I just really want to enjoy playing on the court, in front of the fans.

We're just being ourselves and having fun playing baseball. The biggest thing is when people look at our team, they can see that we're having a lot of fun.

If you're playing basketball with someone who's better than you, you have to get better or else it's no fun.

As a young athlete, it was first about having fun; then it was about winning.

I think I have the ability to win any contest I enter. As long as I stay healthy and keep having fun with my skiing, there's no regressing.

Winning is only half of it. Having fun is the other half.

I can't say, 'It doesn't matter if you win or lose.' It's not true. You go in to win.

I am going to be happy regardless where I am at as long as I am playing basketball with some guys that have the same common goal that I have, and that is to win.

A successful competition for me is always going out there and putting 100 percent into whatever I'm doing. It's not always winning. People, I think, mistake that it's just winning. Sometimes it could be, but for me, it's hitting the best sets I can, gaining confidence, and having a good time and having fun.

You can't afford to hop around and act like a kid when you have to get back on defense and worry about the other parts of the game. But at the end, when the buzzer sounds, you have the luxury of hopping around and looking foolish for a while.

Every team I play, I'm playing them like we playing the Golden State when they had Kevin Durant. Every point guard I play, I'm playing Steph Curry. Every shooting guard I'm playing, I'm playing James Harden. Every three-man I'm playing, I'm playing LeBron and KD.

In basketball, there are no trap games. If you walk out on that court and lose a game, it's because the other team beat you. You played poorly. But there's no trap game.

I don't have friends when I'm on the court, besides my team.

When I went up there it was with one goal was to win a championship. Obviously that didn't happen but I don't have one bad thing to say about my time in Boston.

Man, at the end of the day, it's just a game. And the way I look at it, when I have fun, that's when I play my best basketball.

Playing basketball at MSG is a lot of fun when you are winning, but when you are not, it's not fun.

Football is all about having fun - but playing to win at the same time. When you find the right balance, there's so much more to enjoy.

It doesn't matter if it's Spencer Dinwiddie, Taurean Prince, DeAndre Jordan, I'm trying to win that matchup every time.

The biggest thing I think is, 'It's OK to care. It's OK to want to win and to be that team. To be upset when we lose.'

I may not always be the guy that's talking the most, but I think just how I walk around and how I play, people see that I'm having fun, enjoying it.

I'm not under any pressure. I'm just a kid having fun playing basketball.

That's the whole point of playing basketball - having fun.

The problem with many athletes is they take themselves seriously and their sport lightly.

When I played ball, I didn't play for fun.