A biography for Gilbert Arenashasn’t been written yet.
“I got three 'Tiger Woods' games for my Xbox just in case one gets scratched.”
“I'm not the entertainer anymore.”
“My best moment in the league came when I scored my first bucket.”
“I just put my anger and resentment into basketball. Even the stuff from my childhood.”
“John Wall - me and him talk a lot.”
“You don't want to be too uptight about anything. Especially your job.”
“When you're in there getting buckets, you're not really paying attention to who's there. You're just doing your thing.”
“Fans love me because I connect with them. No other superstar can do that.”
“Fans saying a player is overpaid doesn't bother a player. What bothers an injured player is watching your competitors grow.”
“I think every athlete should give back to schools. I know athletes donate and have things that they give charity to, but, at the end of the day, it's the younger generation that we need to be helping.”
“I just want to go out there and play.”
“I am lighter than Paul Pierce.”
“I've always been a scorer. So when I went to Arizona, I led the team in scoring both years.”
“I'm smarter than the average; I just act dumb. That's what gets people's attention; you act dumb, you get people's attention.”
“Zero is the number of minutes people predicted I would play my freshman year at Arizona.”
“I think I'm one of the rare people out there who still cares about the game of basketball.”
“I always go against the odds.”
“Defense comes with defensive concepts.”
“Basketball is basketball. I don't think people realize that. No matter what city, overseas, D-league, park league - I just want to play.”
“When people think about me, that's all they think: 'He's crazy. He's psycho. He's this.' No, that was just my blog; that was Agent Zero; that was my persona that I was putting out there. And eventually, that all caught up with me.”