Spencer Dinwiddie Quotes

Spencer Dinwiddie

Profession : Basketball Player

Birth : April 6, 1993

Nobody gets to the league and is awful. Some people are more built to be good in this than others, right, but at the end of the day, when people are like, 'Yo, you got great overnight,' I'm like, 'That doesn't really make too much sense.'

Spencer Dinwiddie

Everything is a process.

Spencer Dinwiddie

I just can identify with that mentality of feeling that you should be the best, putting in the work, and then kind of being that backup or being that second guy and being like, nah, this isn't good enough for me, I'm going to be the best.

Spencer Dinwiddie

What we're going for is the future of engagement. That's what Calaxy is designed to do. It's a complete paradigm shift.

Spencer Dinwiddie

I don't know anybody that takes less than market value to stay on a team that wants to be traded. That would be bad for business, right? That would kind of be really dumb.

Spencer Dinwiddie

I've worn a lot of different roles for this team - off the bench, starting, closer, point, off the ball, whatever it may be. So, that's kind of how I view myself - the multi-purpose utility guy who helps keep the guys together, trying to make the sacrifice plays to help the team win.

Spencer Dinwiddie

Look at KD and Kyrie, and they're going to be ball-dominant. You've got to really recognize that and get the ball where it needs to go.

Spencer Dinwiddie

Shoe companies and endorsers influence team decisions all the time.

Spencer Dinwiddie

Look at it like this: I won the Skills Challenge and didn't get invited back.

Spencer Dinwiddie

I wanted to have a shoe as a professional, and that sparked that creativity and thought process of what that could be like if I could have my own.

Spencer Dinwiddie

I was fortunate enough to set myself up financially and do business things.

Spencer Dinwiddie

My brand is about self-expression and doing things authentic to me and not to make money.

Spencer Dinwiddie

Obviously white privilege is a thing, 1000%.

Spencer Dinwiddie

I'm my own man. I can do what I want.

Spencer Dinwiddie

I am free to use my money the way I see fit.

Spencer Dinwiddie

I feel like a lot of guys, they establish a lifestyle that's unsustainable once they're out of the NBA or any league really.

Spencer Dinwiddie

We need more flexibility and ownership over the value we bring to the league.

Spencer Dinwiddie

Turning cash flows from contracts of professional athletes into securities is now possible through the power of blockchain.

Spencer Dinwiddie

The player option allows me to, hopefully, sign a lucrative deal in my prime, before retirement. If you're in a situation where you've played to a level where you can make more money, then you opt out and you make more money. And if you play really poorly, then you opt in and take the money that's scheduled to be on that piece of paper.

Spencer Dinwiddie