Top 279 Traded Quotes & Sayings

We have traded a dictator for a chaos that has left America less secure.

My penalty for rocking the boat was being traded.

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

The options and futures traded on exchanges are derivatives contracts.

If I were to be traded, I just have to be ready to play.

It doesn't matter to me what place I get traded to. If I was traded someplace - I'd play anywhere.

When men fought, they connected. You became brothers as you traded blows.

Come on, when does it come to the point where your name can't come up in trade talks? Willie Mays got traded. Pedro Martinez got traded. So what? That's part of the game.

When I got traded to the Lakers in '97, Kobe Bryant was just a rookie.

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

It's hard, when you are hearing things with the rumors that you are going to be traded, to be focused.

No one's perfect," I whisper. "It doesn't work that way. One bad thing goes away, and another bad thing replaces it." I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.

Anytime a guy gets traded at midseason - a young player - it's surprising.

People used to trade their guitars to get new ones; I never traded anything.

If you're the CEO of a publicly traded company, you're worried about quarterly returns.

I wouldn't have traded my career path for anything.

Nobody knows this, but one of us has just been traded to Kansas City.

I learned about the market's power when I was traded to the Buffalo Bills for $100.

From day one, since I was traded to the Clippers, the team has been amazing to not only me, but to my family.

Tim Thomas is about excuses. It's always somebody else's fault. He said I was jealous? He should thank me for helping him get that contract. He said I didn't show? They traded me, they traded Ray, they traded Big Dog [Robinson] and Tim Thomas still wasn't the man on that team. Michael Redd became the man there. I think I'm doing quite well for myself here. Right now, he needs to focus on his game. Right now, he's not a good basketball player. And I like Tim Thomas. He just has too many damn excuses.

Last I heard, I was being traded to Washington for Monica Lewinsky.

I have always thought the women's movement traded too much on outrage and not enough on ridicule.

It's time for the truth: I want to be traded, I'm ready to be traded. First and foremost, this has nothing to do with the fans or the city, it's just time for me to look after me.

I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.

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.

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.

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

Whites have traded their culture for power.

If I was traded to the Giants, I'd quit baseball

And for at least that moment, I wouldn't have traded the hundreds of books I've read for the few I know almost by heart.

Values are not trendy items that are casually traded in.

I would not have traded the delights of my suffering for anything in the world.

When I first came to Atlanta, I did not want to come here; I got traded here.

I'm going to tell it straight, that yes, I'd love to be traded

Being traded and moving teams, it's difficult, especially when you have families.

Everyone knows my career was catapulted to another level when I got traded to the Boston Celtics.

There's never a right way to tell somebody that they've been traded.

You don't wait 30 minutes before a game to tell a guy he's traded.

My first guitar, a Fender Jazz Master, I traded it in for a Les Paul Deluxe.

I had a huge Lisa Frank sticker collection. I traded them.

How'd you get Magnus to let Jace leave?" "Traded him for Alec," Clary said.

All corporate-owned, publicly-traded media is our first and most immediate enemy.

When I found out that I'd been traded to Brooklyn - it was pretty much the best feeling in the world.

Not that I shouldn't have been traded - everyone gets traded at some point. But the way that it went down wasn't justifiable.

Being traded a couple times - and I've been traded after winning Rookie of the Year - is out of your control.

I don't look forward to the day because I don't like to see guys get traded that I like, or other guys. I didn't want to get traded from the Islanders but then when I did, reality set in that I'd been traded. It's a wild day. It's a crazy day.

One of the things about the NBA is anybody could be traded.

The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a patter of systems.

I traded lots of dreams for a bigger paycheck, and I never even realized I was doing it.

I've been traded before.

As kids, we traded 'I like Ike' and 'All the way with Adlai' buttons in elementary school.

Would I want to get traded again midseason? Hopefully, never.

Eminent nutritionists have traded their independence for the food industry's favors.

There are positives and negatives to publicly traded and private companies.

I mean, if you're going to get traded, you're always looking for a good team to play with.

After the first time I got traded - I was in the bullpen warming up for a game in Double A, and I got called back in and got traded - that was probably the, like, most crazy it could be. And once I got traded, the next time it got a little easier, and I got traded the next time - it's just part of it.

I look at it like this, this is what keeps me going: You see a lot of guys who are being traded and they get waived once they get to the team. That's never happened in my career. So once I've gotten traded, I've been able to sustain a role. I've been wanted.

Whenever you get traded out and you are playing for a winning team, it's always good.

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

When we moved back to the US, folk music was all the rage. So I traded in my banjo for a guitar.