Carmelo Anthony

Life is a risk. ”

What I do will be straight up. Management knows that. ”

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. ”

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. ”

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

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

I'm a classical type of guy. Whatever's out at that point in time, I like it. I just put my own twist on it, and we go from there. ”

With the way everything's going now and the way that technology is going, you can do a lot of things with a lot of different new materials. ”

The NBA's a Fortune 500 company. That's how you look at it. And all the other Fortune 500 companies out there in the world, you don't see their CEOs and COOs going to work with white tees and baggy clothes and stuff like that. So I have to take that same approach. ”