People have always doubted whether I was good enough to play this game at this level. I thought I was, and I thought I could be. What other people thought was really always irrelevant to me.

6) 2010 (11. After winning his first MVP award he was approached to serve as spokesperson for numerous products including MDG Computers Raymond Weil watches Vitamin Water and Clearly Canadian bottled water. The first creative effort to come from Meathawk was a 91-second commercial titled "The Sixty Million Dollar Man" for Nike's eco-friendly Trash Talk shoe the first high-performance shoe to be made—at the behest of the environmentally conscious Nash—from recycled materials.

After a successful high-school basketball career in British Columbia he earned a scholarship to Santa Clara University in California. He is also ranked as one of the top players in NBA league history for three-point shooting free-throw shooting total assists and assists per game. Nash has been honoured for his contributions to various philanthropic causes.