Trade Rumors Quotes

Most of the time, before you get traded, there are rumblings. I wasn't totally surprised that I was going to get traded - I anticipated it happening. And I wasn't surprised that I got traded to the Knicks, either.

My last two years at Buffalo, I've had so many trade requests. Rumors every year.

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.

It's just part of the NFL. There's going to be moving parts constantly. There's going to be roster changes. There's going to be coaches going somewhere else.

I've seen players in the past who wanted to stay with their team, and it didn't work out.

I came into the league traded. So I'm not the only person that goes through trade rumors each year.

I always wanted to be the No. 1 pick, but come draft night anything can happen - trades, or anything like that.

We knew the 2017-18 offseason would be one of our most challenging. We've known that for a long time.

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

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.

When I look at our roster, I'm sure all of you have printed that I'm coming up on 35, and given my situation and my salary structure and all that, yeah, I have to wonder if this team is going to make moves and they haven't.

You get traded. It happens. It's part of the 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.

Carmelo Anthony should do what makes him happy - either stay with the Knicks and be mediocre, or get with a contender and help them get over the hump.

If I get traded, I get traded. It's a part of the business.

Midseason trades are hard.

I am the MVP and I gotta worry about the trade talk.

Nobody really tells me what's going on, and I find out via the trades myself.

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.

A lot of teams - they want a point guard and I am bouncing around, why not put me in those talks and try to get me?

It's always that time of year around January where trade talks come.

I play the same, contract or no contract, because trade-talk is part of basketball.

I've been told a million things in this league. I was Rookie of the Year, and then got traded... So it's hard for me to sit back and believe everything I hear.

In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea.

I'm not a player, I'm an alien. I wasn't actually there. I was in another galaxy with my galactic friends. My focus is on winning championships. I don't focus on anything else. Aliens only want to win championships. That's it. Injuries is not a focus. Trade talk is not a focus. Nothing is a focus. Gluten-free pasta is not a focus, which I would rather have gluten-free pasta. Hey, if I have to have regular pasta. ... It is what it is. I'm still going to try to win a championship. Nothing will distract me from my focus, my galactic mind.