Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Spencer Dinwiddie
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Last updated on November 5, 2024.
My decisions are my own.
If I can reach a half-million people with the click of a button, that's more powerful than finding half of a million people to give a dollar to.
Super Saiyan' is a term from 'Dragonball Z,' the most important TV show ever. The main character, Goku, is a member of the alien race known as Saiyans. When Saiyans train to a certain level - and get really angry - they transform into what's known as a Super Saiyan: their hair gets all spiky and they get crazy, crazy strong.
With Kyrie and KD, if you're telling me I get to come out here and pass to two phenomenal scorers and get 10 assists a game and maybe be in second gear a lot of times with my scoring, I'm fine.
Traditional solutions as they stand are designed to aid the centralized party. That's how it always has been. It will continue to be for the near future. As we evolve and we continue to gain more power and understanding, centralized bodies die down because there's more power to the individual.
I don't know anybody that takes less than market value to stay on a team that wants to be traded. That would be bad for business, right? That would kind of be really dumb.
My role is my role.
My dream was always to be a great PG and lead my team to an NBA title. So that's what I'm fighting for and pursuing.
Look at KD and Kyrie, and they're going to be ball-dominant. You've got to really recognize that and get the ball where it needs to go.
I've worn a lot of different roles for this team - off the bench, starting, closer, point, off the ball, whatever it may be. So, that's kind of how I view myself - the multi-purpose utility guy who helps keep the guys together, trying to make the sacrifice plays to help the team win.
I used to draw shoes as a kid.
I never got in this to be a 3rd PG, or a backup. Nor did I get into this for money.
If I hit a game-winning shot, right, and I run back down the court and shake my teammates hands, it's because I expected to make it. Because I've practiced or I feel I've worked harder than everybody else. So why would I then go nuts, go crazy if I expected to do that? People don't understand that part about me.
I'm my own man. I can do what I want.
Shoe companies and endorsers influence team decisions all the time.
I think there's a difference between internal confidence and situational confidence and understanding.
Nobody gets to the league and is awful. Some people are more built to be good in this than others, right, but at the end of the day, when people are like, 'Yo, you got great overnight,' I'm like, 'That doesn't really make too much sense.'
What we're going for is the future of engagement. That's what Calaxy is designed to do. It's a complete paradigm shift.
The player option allows me to, hopefully, sign a lucrative deal in my prime, before retirement. If you're in a situation where you've played to a level where you can make more money, then you opt out and you make more money. And if you play really poorly, then you opt in and take the money that's scheduled to be on that piece of paper.
I like things that make sense in my head.
You try to do the best you can in every situation that you're in.
I've pretty much been in every situation in terms of the roster... like roster spot 1-15.
The NBA is a job. Just like any other job complaining about opportunity doesn't solve anything. The only thing you can do is control what you can control, and when you are at peace with the work you put in then you don't have any regrets and that's truly the main thing about this journey.
Turning cash flows from contracts of professional athletes into securities is now possible through the power of blockchain.
Transparency and liquidity make sense in my head, so that's why I have an affinity for blockchain as a whole.
I've had my differences with the NBA in terms of cryptocurrency and contractual things.
Taking something less than market value to be somewhere you don't want to be? Bad for business.
Being in New York as a whole, Brooklyn as well, you can do anything you want. That's by far the best part about New York, besides just the hustle and grit and grind of Brooklyn specifically, but the best food. Anybody you want to get in contact with, odds are if they don't live in New York, they're passing through New York at some point in time.
Indeed, there's little question that mustaches are the ultimate facial accessory.
People still find themselves four or five years out of the league and needing money, and that's because you establish a lifestyle you can't keep up with. Guys don't want to decrease to a $10,000 a month lifestyle when they've been used to $75,000.
I try to be pragmatic.
The most powerful thing billionaires have isn't their voice. It's earth-shattering, continent-moving, war-starting amounts of money.
Everything is a process.
I'm really just a dude that cooks, plays with his son and thinks about stuff in his spare time outside of dedicating about six hours or so to basketball stuff.
I stand up for what I believe in and what I believe is right.
We need more flexibility and ownership over the value we bring to the league.
You have those times where you bump heads with your parents because they want you to do this, or you want to do that, or whatever it is, and that's just kind of life. She was just always like that safe place, and obviously she was the matriarch of the family, my mom's best friend.
You have to know yourself so well and be able to put it on whatever display you want to put it on and be confident in that and be fine with it.
I wanted to have a shoe as a professional, and that sparked that creativity and thought process of what that could be like if I could have my own.
I thought going to Colorado gave me the best chance to get to the league, and I wanted to play in the Pac-12.
I am free to use my money the way I see fit.
I'm a California guy, but in my opinion I think Biggie is the best rapper.
I feel like a lot of guys, they establish a lifestyle that's unsustainable once they're out of the NBA or any league really.
I like blockchain, I like cooking food and slow roasting a prime rib for Thanksgiving, and whatever else that you might find awkward or weird or whatever, then I'm me.
I'm passionate about blockchain as a whole, decentralized finance as a whole.
When you get to a point of stop trying to not mess up and just playing basketball, you've got that base of comfortability.
First, I'm a basketball player and I try to have the most well-rounded game possible. But people forget when I was recruited out of high school, I was recruited as a passer.
I just can identify with that mentality of feeling that you should be the best, putting in the work, and then kind of being that backup or being that second guy and being like, nah, this isn't good enough for me, I'm going to be the best.
Even if I'm the worst player in the NBA, I'm one of the best players in the world.
When you're out there and you finally get to play extended minutes and you do well, it reaffirms your confidence.
I was fortunate enough to set myself up financially and do business things.
It was fun playing for my country.
Steve Blake is a great vet, but when I'm sitting behind him it's just like, c'mon, guys.'
I want Brooklyn to be a championship-caliber team.
My brand is about self-expression and doing things authentic to me and not to make money.
You have to kind of embrace the duality of every moment.
Just like basketball, MMA is all about taking what you're given and exploiting it as much as possible. Strength and stamina are important, but a clear mind might be your biggest asset. Of course, keeping a clear mind while someone twists your arm behind your head isn't all that easy.
Obviously white privilege is a thing, 1000%.
I'm definitely not an expert on public health.
Look at it like this: I won the Skills Challenge and didn't get invited back.
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