Pero Antić Takes a Jab at Today's Players: 'They're Bloggers; I Played on One Leg, Lived in a One-Room Apartment, Didn't Get Paid, and Was the Happiest!'

"Vuk always had a CD player blasting Red Star fan songs. The whole arena is buzzing, and they owe you ten salaries, but I'd play with a broken leg. Just like when I came back. Torn ligaments. Nebojša Čović comes up and says, 'Peki, you have to play against Partizan, Novica is there.' I say, 'I'll play.' He asks, 'But how will you play?' I told him, 'Don't worry, I'll do everything for the team!' That sense of belonging, that's what I miss, not like, 'I'm injured, I need 10 days.' I tore my calf 2.5 centimeters at Fener, and we had to play Real Madrid in a best-of-three quarterfinal to make the Final Four. Jan Vesely had messed up his ankle, and we had no center. I went to Željko and told him I was ready to risk it. I put on a brace; maybe I couldn't jump as high, but I could help. We won, not because of me, but I was a small cog in the machine." - Pero Antić

"You see today they're bloggers, doing 600 thousand things. For us, it was training, the game, and then you'd go out. Now they have houses in Belgrade, but I lived in a one-room apartment in Slavija, and I was the happiest man, I had a terrace. It's not that I hadn't seen a terrace, it's beautiful, man. There was an old man in the building with mental problems, peeing in the elevator every day, and you'd smell it. No problem, pee away, old man, just let me get downstairs." - Pero Antić