Chris Bosh Quotes

Author Image

Chris Bosh

Profession : Athlete

Birth : March 24, 1984

At the end of the day, I looked at my options. I wanted to be in the NBA. I wanted to pursue my dream. It was my choice. But sometimes, just for fun, I think about how it would've been if I'd stayed in college.

Chris Bosh

If you're an athlete in this game, you have to protect your own interests, and you have to protect your body and your family.

Chris Bosh

If a doctor tells me, 'Hey, that's it, and this is how it is,' and I don't buy that, then I think I have the right to disagree with you.

Chris Bosh

I'm used to practicing. I'm used to the schedule. That's kind of what I was born to do. That's what I've been doing my whole life.

Chris Bosh

No, I don't want to coach. I don't want to coach.

Chris Bosh

I would have to be in a very different place in my life to coach basketball. I'll always work out and be in the gym.

Chris Bosh

I love Miami: great town, always loved it, a great place to play basketball.

Chris Bosh

The post area I had to unlearn. And yeah, now it's a relearning process. It's different. It's learning what works and what doesn't work.

Chris Bosh

My favorite was always smothered pork chops. Smothered pork chops. That would be my request if I ever had one, and it was pretty consistent.

Chris Bosh

I remember in high school, I ate some nachos probably like an hour, half-hour before the game, and it's kind of gross, but a little of it came up while I was running - you know you get that burp - and I literally coughed at the same time, and it got caught in my nose, and it was during the game.

Chris Bosh

I've eaten a lot of strange things. I've eaten something called a razor clam. They just call it that because it likes like the old-school razors in the old-school barber shops. I can't even think of some of the things I've tried.

Chris Bosh

My house is going - kids running out, my wife is running in and out - but I like to sit down and have breakfast.

Chris Bosh

Everybody says they want to win. But when you start talking about sacrifice and doing what's right for the team, it's like, 'Wait a minute, I didn't mean that. I want to win, but...' There's always a conjunction with that. It's never what you think it is. And it's always, like, your weakest point where you got to do it.

Chris Bosh

For me, I kind of just follow my passions and follow what I love to do and use my free time to kind of answer those questions and go through my bad moods and maybe a little light case of depression.

Chris Bosh

I'm still learning more about myself and my situation and really, off the court, how to function there, because I'm kind of getting the taste of retirement now.

Chris Bosh

I don't jump as high and I'm not as fast as Dwyane Wade and LeBron James. I don't have many highlight plays, but I can play this game.

Chris Bosh

If they need me to score 30, I can go do it. If they need me to just rebound and defend, I can do that. I can play this game, just in case people forgot. You just carry that chip on your shoulder, and you go out there and do what I was put on this Earth to do.

Chris Bosh

The media attention - the negative, in particular - it makes you a different person.

Chris Bosh

I gave everything I had. All your feelings, all your energy, you put everything out there. And you come up short.

Chris Bosh