“An athlete needs to read situations before they happen.”

“I realize that you have to be careful sometimes what you wish for.”

“You’ve got to respect the game and you’ve got to respect what the people that have played have done for the game.”

“I love football. I’ll watch the NFL before I watch any NBA.”

“I like to be in the gym working on different stuff by myself—just me and nobody else. That’s when I get a lot done. I’m the type of player who goes off the dribble, and that’s when I make up moves or try to imitate moves I’ve seen.”

“I think that work has been the key for me. Just like they say shooting will become easy if you just keep working at it, well, I love the dribble game—that brings excitement to the game.”

“Shooting is a lost art, but nobody wants to see nobody shoot all day. You want to see somebody break somebody off the dribble. That’s today game, and that’s what I try to do.”

“I’ve stuck by being modest, honest and humble, because I think you’ll get more appreciated that way and we all want to be appreciated in this world.”

“My name is very important to me. I’m representing the Wade name. I’ve got the name on the back of my jersey when I play. I walk around with that name. That’s my family name, the name my son will grow up with. So it’s very important to me to keep the level of maturity that I have.”

“I’m a firm believer in God and I don’t think he’d want me acting a certain way.”

“When I got my first check I was thinking my mother and father didn’t make this probably in their lifetime. It’s real amazing that some of us are just blessed.”

“I got known worldwide in a short period of time just because Shaq said so many nice things about me.”

“Being a leader is one thing I’ve never felt comfortable with. It’s not my nature.”

“I’m a competitor.”

“People are still trying to figure out who I am. Most people just say I play the game the right way.”

“My will is to always be better and better and better. I’ve got the will to want to be the best.”

“You have to remember that you only want to use your dunks at the right time. If you do it at the right time, you can wake up everybody and change the whole momentum of the game. It can get the crowd up, get your teammates up. It can wake up yourself, too, if you’re not shooting well.”