Top 120 Dwyane Wade Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “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.”

— Dwyane Wade

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

— Dwyane Wade

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

— Dwyane Wade

54. “I’m happy that I can focus on my body a little bit. I’m not happy to get surgery, but I’m happy that I can focus on getting better.”

— Dwyane Wade

55. “Whenever there is a big game and people don’t think I can do it, I always play my hardest, and now it has become a part of me.”

— Dwyane Wade

56. “I’m just a kid in a candy store right now, trying to have fun. I’m getting a chance to show my ability and my talent.”

— Dwyane Wade

57. “My upbringing involves individuals who helped me along the way. I don’t think I would be here today without that support.”

— Dwyane Wade

58. “As long as you put on a jersey, no matter what kind of jersey it is, as long as you’re supporting the game of basketball, I enjoy it.”

— Dwyane Wade

59. “I’m a playmaker, and I’m going to score. At the end of the day, my job is to put the ball in the basket.”

— Dwyane Wade

60. “Fatherhood is the best thing that could happen to me, and I’m just glad I can share my voice.”

— Dwyane Wade

61. “To wear a gray tweed suit, you have to be mature and confident in yourself. Some people can’t pull it off.”

— Dwyane Wade

62. “Players are ready to play, We’re not on strike. It’s a lockout.”

— Dwyane Wade

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

— Dwyane Wade

64. “I would have to name two people – my parents. I’ve seen them come through adversity and work hard to create the best life for me and my siblings. Although I don’t remember them together as a couple, I remember the love they had for their children.”

— Dwyane Wade

65. “The Miami Heat floor is great, but a lot of them are not.”

— Dwyane Wade

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

— Dwyane Wade

67. “He’s going to learn the hard way. Hopefully he changes his mentality quick.”

— Dwyane Wade

68. “Being a father is an everyday challenge. It goes on and on.”

— Dwyane Wade

69. “I think the biggest thing I’ve learned is to not really worry what people will say or think about what you wear. You have to wear what feels good on you, what you feel comfortable in. And I’ve just learned to not really care.”

— Dwyane Wade

70. “Our goal is to be the best team in the NBA at the end of the year.”

— Dwyane Wade

71. “I think this is where we’re trying to get to eventually as a league too hopefully. To have an opportunity to represent and be a leader of a global brand, for me, it was a great decision.”

— Dwyane Wade

72. “Places you go in life – it opens your eyes up and you kind of understand who you are.”

— Dwyane Wade

73. “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.”

— Dwyane Wade

74. “I’m scared of needles.”

— Dwyane Wade

75. “I’m on a team with LeBron James and Chris Bosh, and they both dress well. It gets competitive. If I don’t bring my A game, they’re going to outshine me.”

— Dwyane Wade

76. “I don’t think the world focuses on the positive things enough.”

— Dwyane Wade

77. “We play the whole summer. I do think guys should be compensated. Just like I think college players should be compensated as well. Unfortunately, it’s not there. But I think it should be something, you know, there for it.”

— Dwyane Wade

78. “I think people have had the understanding for many years that whatever happens with the separation of parents, that the kids automatically go to the mother. The fathers don’t know their rights.”

— Dwyane Wade

79. “You play a certain way for so long, and change is good. So I look forward to change, and I look forward to playing with the proper talent that we were able to put together.”

— Dwyane Wade

80. “I’ve been blessed to be one of those guys who’s looked at as a fashion-forward type of guy.”

— Dwyane Wade

81. “Man, anytime the ball goes through the basket. It doesn’t matter if it’s a jumper or a drive. Any time the ball goes through the basket, and it’s going through consistently, it’s demoralizing for any opponent.”

— Dwyane Wade

82. “Fashion’s about taking chances, it’s about taking risks, and just doing it the way you feel comfortable doing it. If you do that, people will respect it more.”

— Dwyane Wade

83. “I was probably a terrible husband, but I pride myself on being a good dad.”

— Dwyane Wade

84. “For home games, I bring my clothes to the arena. I bring two different outfits that I can pick after the game. Road game, I got to wear what I walk in with.”

— Dwyane Wade

85. “I got a rhythm going. The guys just did a good job of putting the ball in my hands.”

— Dwyane Wade

86. “I think the main thing for kids is to have them believe in themselves.”

— Dwyane Wade

87. “It’s always a dream to be on the cover, it’s one of the things an athlete always aspires to do, to be on the cover of a videogame, but I never thought I would get to do it this quick.”

— Dwyane Wade

88. “If someone wears something you like, you make comments on it. And if someone wears something we don’t like, we make comments on it, too. That’s just what guys do, what teammates do. Besides that, we don’t really compete in that space.”

— Dwyane Wade

89. “The biggest thing is to make sure that when something comes out about you that is false that you prove it’s not true.”

— Dwyane Wade

90. “People don’t need to necessarily see me in the jersey to understand who I am and what message I’m trying to get across with the things that I’m marketing.”

— Dwyane Wade

91. “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.”

— Dwyane Wade

92. “Wherever you go, things change you. I mean, obviously moving to Miami and becoming part of the NBA has given me a different perspective on style than I had when I lived in Chicago or Milwaukee.”

— Dwyane Wade

93. “I’ve decided to listen to my doctors and get the procedure I need on my knee. USA Basketball said I had to do what was best for me. They want me to be obviously as healthy as possible so I can continue to play this game at a high level.”

— Dwyane Wade

94. “Immediately after games, we’re talking about what we need to do for the next game. We’re not satisfied in the moment that we’re in.”

— Dwyane Wade

95. “A Tom Ford three-piece makes you feel so confident, it’s bananas.”

— Dwyane Wade

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

— Dwyane Wade

97. “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.”

— Dwyane Wade

98. “When I come home, I’m not a basketball player, but “dad”. While everyone sees me as an NBA player, to my boys, I’m just “dad” and that’s very important.”

— Dwyane Wade

99. “The locker room has to be right. We’ve got to be patient to build this team.”

— Dwyane Wade

100. “I like playing against LeBron more than anybody else in the league. He brings out the best in me, and I bring out the best in him.”

— Dwyane Wade