Antonio Davis Quotes

• 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.

  Antonio Davis

• It’s fool’s gold if you are winning games and are not playing the right way.

  Antonio Davis

• If you’re going to trade me, trade me. Whenever they are going to do, let them do it so I can situated.

  Antonio Davis

• If these are the last 34 games of my NBA career, I want them played as tough as I can.

  Antonio Davis

• I’ve never had a chance to go to the Finals, and I don’t have a ring – and that would be the only thing that would get me to think about it.

  Antonio Davis

• I’ve been shooting the ball and running a little bit. It’s just going out here now and forgetting that I’ve been out and try to get back in and make sure I know what’s going on out there on the floor and that we’re just not lost as a team.

  Antonio Davis

• I’m still doing something I love to do.

  Antonio Davis

• I’m not apologizing to anybody for anything.

  Antonio Davis

• I meet a lot of people.

  Antonio Davis

• I hope the business sense that artists like Jay-Z and Nelly are showing rubs off on the young players. I want somebody to stand up and say, Look, these kids got it going on. We want to be a part of them.

  Antonio Davis

• I have to be a father first and a husband first.

  Antonio Davis

• I don’t think I’ll be playing again. I’m very content and happy, doing the types of things I haven’t gotten to do, be a father.

  Antonio Davis

• I didn’t go in there and tell them I think you should move me, but I also understand the nature of this business.

  Antonio Davis

• I actually think some of the rappers can help our image, because the thing I’m concerned about is the NBA’s image. I always want our image to be on the rise, and if the rappers can help young players get business-minded, then I’m all for it.

  Antonio Davis

• Even if I would have left on a good note, there is still going to be people who don’t like you, who don’t like what you stand for. I can’t worry about that.

  Antonio Davis

• As of right now, I have no desire. I’ve watched several games and played pickup ball thinking I’d have the feeling I’d like to get back, but I didn’t have that feeling. I don’t really miss the game.

  Antonio Davis

Antonio Davis (16)

Birth:	31st October, 1968
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Basketball Player

About

Antonio Lee Davis is a retired American National Basketball Association  player. Davis is also the former president of the NBA Players Association . On October 31, 2012, ESPN announced the hiring of Davis as a studio analyst for NBA broadcasts. Davis played college basketball at UTEP under coach Don Haskins from 1986 to 1990.  He played with Panathinaikos in the Greek League from 1990–92 and with Philips Milano of the Italian League during the 1992–93 season.  In the 2000–01 NBA season, Davis was elected to the NBA All-Star Team for the only time in his career. During the 2003–04 NBA season, he was traded to the Chicago Bulls, where he fit in well as a veteran influence on a young team. Davis played for Team USA at the 1989 Tournament of the Americas and 2002 FIBA World Championship, winning the silver medal in the 1989 event. In 2000, Davis won the Sears Community Service Award for his charity work.

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