64 Carmelo Anthony Quotes On Confidence, Success, Basketball & Life

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Carmelo Anthony is a professional basketball player who played 19 season in the NBA. After winning an NCAA Championship at Syracuse University, Melo was drafted in 2003 by the Denver Nuggets with the third pick.

He also played for teams like the New York Knicks, Oklahoma City Thunder, and Los Angeles Lakers.

Carmelo is known for being one of the top scorers in NBA history, having scored over 28,000 points in his career.

He is famous for his unstoppable mid-range pull-up and his lethal jab-steps.

Melo is a 10-time NBA All-Star, 1x NBA scoring champion, and 3-time Olympic gold medal winner with the United States men's basketball team.

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Carmelo Quotes About Success And Winning

Winning was extremely important to Carmelo Anthony. He never won an NBA Championship but he did win a NCAA Championship at Syracuse and he also won 3 Olympic Gold Medals with Team USA.

1. "Success is the result of psychologically preparing for it, prior to achieving it."

2. "People tend to grow fearful, when they taste failure, face a daunting challenge or fall ill. Yet, that is precisely the time to become even bolder. Those who are victors at heart are the greatest of all champions."

3. "Every morning you have two choices: continue to sleep with your dreams, or wake up and chase them."

4. "I want to win the game. I don't worry about taking over the game unless I have to."

5. "Play hard, learn as much as I can and do what I do best. The rest will take care of itself I think."

6. "I just don't want to get used to feeling this feeling, you know, losing basketball games."

7. "When I was young, I was sold on winning. I was always serious on the court. As I got older, I realized that it was just a basketball game. Just go out there and have fun."

8. "To go out there and play and have fun and hopefully win a championship. That's my goal."

9. "At this point in my career I'm not concerned about the money, it's about winning. Nothing else even matters."

10. "Look, I won in high school, I won a national championship in college, I want to win one in the NBA. But winning a gold medal, I don't think anything can top that."

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Melo Quotes On Confidence And Being Himself

Carmelo had a ton of confidence in himself which helped him have so much success as a basketball player, and as a scorer specifically.

He always wanted to take important shots in clutch moments because he believed in himself to make them. Melo also talks about staying true to who he is and not being afraid to be himself.

11. "Of course I want to take the last shot, let's be quite frank: I've been doing this for nine years already, and I've made a ton of them."

12. "It's easier for me to let the game just come to me."

13. "I smile all the time, even when I'm in a bad mood. I always try to keep a smile on my face."

14. "As long as you stay true to yourself and to who you are, you ain't in nobody's way."

15. "People look at me like I'm on my way out of the game. I'm just getting started."

16. "Man, I'm not trying to be important; I just go out and play."

17. "I think I'm the most underrated superstar that's out there, but that doesn't matter to me."

18. "Always stay true to yourself. Some people will like it, some people won't. Life goes on."

19. "Every year it's been people saying I can't do this or I can't do that. Y'all will see something different, I can tell you that."

20. "I'm me. I'm just out there being myself. I like having fun. But at the same time, I bring everybody together. So I'm really -- or I try to be -- like the glue of the team."

21. "I know there's a lot of pressure, but I'm just going to go out and play my game."

22. "I'm laid back, I take my time, get the job done. LeBron is high flying, dunking, passing the ball well. He's getting the job done, too. But we're different."

23. "You make your own party."

24. "This was on my vision board. To run out there and be hitting game winners, getting the fans riled up. When they’re stomping on the floor yelling ‘New York Knicks’ – that’s a great feeling."

25. "I understand the NBA and the role I play on my team. I know that I have to play a leadership role and do whatever I have to do to win."

Best Carmelo Anthony Quotes About Basketball

Carmelo was first and foremost, a scorer, but he could excelled in other areas too. He had a great post-up game and was an excellent rebounder. He let everyone know too.

26. "I know I'm not a selfish player. People around me know I'm not a selfish player. I do everything I can to make people around me understand I'm not a selfish player."

27. "What I do will be straight up. Management knows that."

28. "Denver is home to me, and to be recognized for my achievements in the sports community here is a great honor."

29. "When I step on that basketball court, I'm thinking about basketball, I'm thinking about winning - but there's so much that goes into thought about how I'm going to open this game up to others. It's so much more than just basketball."

30. "I think going to college for that one year was probably the best thing I have ever done."

31. "Who wouldn't want to go back home to play?"

32. "I want to retire in New York, let's be quite frank. I think a lot of people jumped the gun when I said I wanted to be a free agent. And yeah, I want people to come to play in New York."

33. "I can't palm a basketball."

34. "We're still getting better as a team. We're still learning how to play basketball as a team and how to win tough games."

35. "I wanted to make the lightest shoe possible, but still be able to perform at the same time."

36. "I don't put pressure on myself. When I put pressure on myself, then I just play bad. When I play bad, my team plays bad."

37. "You've got to have fun on the court. If you ain't having fun, then basketball ain't fun."

38. "I think people fail to realize that teams and organizations have been stacking teams since way back in the day."

39. "I just want to get on the court."

40. "As a good player in the inner city, you're always hearing people saying that you're better than you really are and that you don't have to do things like everybody else."

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Hard Work And Effort Quotes By Carmelo Anthony

Melo talks about how hard he worked throughout his career to help him become the player that he was. He knew that he had to earn greatness, it wasn't just going to be handed to him.

Melo even admits that he wanted to improve his defense - a common knock on him as a player throughout his career.

41. "When you've never had something, you want it worse than anything."

42. "You just gotta believe, I have never been a quitter in my life or in my career."

43. "A lot of people think that as a player, during the lockout, you just have your whole day free. It's not like that - especially for me. I wake up everyday, train in the morning from 9 a.m. to about 2 p.m. Then I have a business meeting here, have to meet this person there, it's non-stop for me."

44. "No one is perfect. I know there is stuff that I need to work on, and not just one thing, but my game overall. Everything can get better."

45. "I say 'come with it.' I'm not expecting anything easy. You have to earn your place. That's fine with me."

46. "I think I'll always want to improve my defense. That's something that can always be better. Not saying it's bad now, just something you should always work on."

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Motivational Carmelo Quotes About Life

Anthony touches on what he values the most in life - family, having fun, and being himself.

47. "I believe that you should put the right people around you, people that will not let anything go wrong."

48. "Life is a risk."

49. "Any decision I make is the biggest decision of my life."

50. "I like having fun."

51. "At the end of the day, you want to be always the one that's one step ahead of everybody, and when it comes to hip-hop, culture and art, you want to be that signature guy."

52. "Leadership is something I was born with."

53. "I told my mom I would graduate. I owe that much to her and myself."

54. "I can't worry about what other people are saying about me. At the end of the day, it's just their opinions, but if I said I don't hear it, or it doesn't bother me a little bit, I'd be lying to you."

55. "If you laugh, think, and cry; that's a full day."

56. "Family time is the best time."

57. "There weren't any sports figures that I idolized because I didn't really believe in myself back then or think that I could make it here. There were some regular people in my neighborhood that I looked up to growing up but that was it."

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58. "I think everybody has their own unique style."

59. "Nobody should expect more of you than you expect of yourself."

60. "We all need that sometimes, to get re-sparked again. Sometimes it's different influences and different motivations; sometimes we've got to go and get back to the basics."

61. "People need to see the authentic people that are still out there, the genuine people that really care."

62. "I don't think there could ever be more pressure to succeed than the pressure I place on myself."

63. "I don't want to just be an athlete. I kind of obsess on that sometimes. I don't want my son to be reading, oh, 'disappointment, just a scorer, selfish, didn't win enough, never quite the best' -- whatever. I want to be bigger than that. I want to shape my own destiny instead of just having him read about whatever on the back page."

64. "The only person I ever wanted to meet was Muhammad Ali. And of all the people I’ve ever met, he’s the one who most impressed me. It’s tough to listen to him. You gotta have patience. But you see how strong his mind is. Even now, he’s one of the most intelligent people on the planet."

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