Channing Frye Quotes

Channing Frye

Profession : Basketball Player

Birth : May 17, 1983

In the early '90s, my parents weren't really drinking wine. They had a bottle or two laying around, but it had been a stigma where a bottle of wine had to be for a super special occasion. A bottle of wine had to go with a steak. And it was this thing that seemed so distant.

Channing Frye

If your rookie can affect a win or a loss early, then his ceiling is going to be crazy.

Channing Frye

When I go with my friends who aren't into wine, I love to introduce them to my area of expertise. That's what's exciting about wine in its truest form - you want to share your love of what you're sharing.

Channing Frye

I like being the underdog.

Channing Frye

I'm a 120-over-78 blood pressure guy.

Channing Frye

I want to be a complete player.

Channing Frye

Steph is a Hall of Famer, is a multiple champion, best shooter of all time.

Channing Frye

In high school, I had size and I had raw potential, but as a basketball player I was hot garbage.

Channing Frye

I've been traded before.

Channing Frye

You never hear me complain about playing time, shots.

Channing Frye

It's tough to control your words and your emotions. A lot of guys will say things out of emotion at that moment when really they should be thinking: 'Ok, what's this going to look like tomorrow?'

Channing Frye

I put a lot of pressure on myself to play a certain way.

Channing Frye

I don't want to say that when you're an athlete, you take things for granted, but you do. We're supposed to go out and think we're invincible. We're not.

Channing Frye

I never asked another player for their shoes, it's a little weird.

Channing Frye

When I was on the Knicks, and I'd have a drink - my drink would be either a Manhattan or an Old Fashioned - businessmen would be drinking only wine. As I continued to go to business dinners with successful businessmen, my drink has now also turned into wine.

Channing Frye

I like Damian Lillard because he's done more with less than Steph.

Channing Frye

Before every game, I have this 30-second routine where I'll pretend like I'm doing some stupid stretch, but what I am really doing is just closing my eyes and taking in the moment, imagining every arena and every city I've been in, smelling all the smells, seeing all the fans.

Channing Frye

I think chemistry matters 100 percent. Because if guys want to play unselfish, if guys want to do things for each other, if they want to win the right way, you're going to play the right way.

Channing Frye

Wine culture is very white. It's a fact. When you look at it from a cultural standpoint, you're missing out on so many different cultural influences in America.

Channing Frye

I would always ask Rob Pelinka what Kobe was doing to be who he was. How to get his game to the next level - how does he get that good?

Channing Frye