My dad used to play basketball, now he gets to see me in the NBA Finals.
When you want to play basketball and you get paid for playing basketball, you want to do it every single day. So I don’t think I’ll get tired of doing it.
On an awards-show day, I can play basketball, go in, take a shower and put on a tux – it takes me three minutes to put on a tux – and be out the door in 15 minutes.
I’ve got five grandkids. They play baseball, they play football, they play basketball. I go to all the games. You always have that urge to say something when you’re watching them. But I’ve learned to keep it to myself. I’ve blurted out some things and embarrassed myself.
I’m not going to put them all in a box and say they all cheat. There are some good guys and I have met some good guys that play basketball.
I either run or try to play basketball every day.
If you don’t like the pressure you shouldn’t play basketball.
I think Damian Lillard is the best lyricist to be in the NBA or play basketball.
Something I like to do a lot is just sit by water when there’s a current and just stare into the water. I don’t fish, I don’t hunt, I don’t scuba, I don’t spear, don’t boat, don’t play basketball or football – I excel at staring into space. I’m really good at that.
My job’s to play basketball. My job’s not to be here to be friends with anybody.
I wake up every day doing what I love to do. I love to play basketball.
I play basketball, I play soccer, I draw, uh I like girls.
I love Milwaukee, I love the fans, the city – it works hard, I work hard and I’ve always done that since the first day I decided to play basketball.
I had a basketball net that my dad had put up outside. I went out there and dribbled all day long. I wanted to play basketball. Then I’d go baseball, and then I’d go to football. I remember playing football in a plowed field. I grew up going from one thing to the next wanting to play something.
My only focus and our only focus as players is to be focused on our job, in the gym and do what we’re supposed to do. We get paid a lot of money to play basketball, and that’s what we got to focus on.
I play basketball probably four to five days a week when I’m back home.
Right when I was lying on the ground and saw my legs, I didn’t think first, ‘I’m going to die.’ I was thinking, ‘I’m not going to run again. I can’t play basketball. I’m not going to skate.’
I don’t think nobody’s doubting I can play basketball.
Collecting shoes is my biggest hobby. I’ve got a couple hundred pairs of Nikes and Jordans. I got a lot of hats, too. I like to play basketball, but nothing competition wise.
At the end of the day, we’re here to play basketball but to help the community, too. It’s something that makes me feel good and I do it more for me than for the others, but at the end of the day helping others helps yourself, too.
I think we’re all pros. If we go out there and just play basketball the right way, everything is gonna work itself out.
I can play basketball, run track, and play volleyball, so yeah, I’ve always been an athlete at heart.
I enjoy listening to classical music and heavy metal. I play basketball and try to go diving at least once a year. I don’t really have hobbies in the traditional sense… I engage in too many activities already through the actions of my characters.
I’m not playing for other people; if I start thinking in those terms I would put too much pressure on myself. I play basketball because that is what I love to do.
I hoop – I play basketball. I’m challenging any rapper.
Guys play basketball and get hurt, and that’s probably the easiest sport on the planet. We’re actually fighting every day. We’re wrestling; we’re grappling.
I used to be a pretty good player back in the day. But I don’t play basketball too much anymore.
It’s definitely one of my biggest passions – I played every day after school with all my friends from high school in Pennsylvania. They weren’t really soccer players, so we would play basketball all the time.
We don’t do things we aren’t good at by nature. I wouldn’t play basketball because I’m only 5′ 1″. Find what you enjoy – whether it’s racing, flying a helicopter, being a doctor, or stitching clothes together. Once you’ve done that, you have the passion you need.
When I watch kids play basketball, they don’t know how to think the game. They know what it should look like, but they don’t know why.
At the end of the day, you’re only going to be allowed to play basketball for a short period of time. You’re a human other than that for the rest of your life. So it’s safe to say that basketball doesn’t define me. It’s just a sport that I was blessed to play.
I never thought that I would ever go over to China for any reason – then to be able to go over there and play basketball, embracing the culture.
Men from my tribe in Sudan – the Dinka tribe – are very tall, so you could say I was born to play basketball.
I really don’t do much. I play basketball.
I am not going to play basketball because I have to play. I am going to play for fun.
My grandfather built a basketball court for me when I was 3 years old as a Christmas present, and I would go back there every day all day and just play basketball.
I play basketball. I play center, and if you haven’t watched me play, I’m not a regular big man. I can move my feet. Not saying I can stop anyone out there who’s in front of me, but trust me: I can really be a problem on the perimeter guarding somebody.
I’m just here to play basketball and have fun and try to win another championship.
Anytime you play basketball and your backs are to the wall, you have to come out and play aggressive.
I don’t do anything else but play basketball.
I’m too short to play basketball and too nervous to steal.
I’m just playing basketball. I just want to be a great player. That’s it. That’s all I’m thinking about. If the other stuff comes, it comes, but I’m just fortunate to play in the NBA Finals and just to play basketball, period.
I went to school to Washburn to play basketball, and I always believed if basketball didn’t work out I could fall back on golf.
Do I want to play basketball? You bet your dollar I do. At the same time, I have no control over what my body does. I can just give myself the best opportunity. That’s the best attitude I can take.
I never thought I’d play basketball in China.
Someone once accused me of slumming. I don’t know what that means. I play basketball. And through that, I get to see a world that is not smart-kid world.
I play basketball hard-nosed and if you’re not on my team, during that 48 minutes we’re enemies.
I feel like part of the reason I play basketball so much is it just feels good. In the summer I play every single day.
I didn’t grow up wanting to play basketball. I grew up wanting to enlist and then go into law enforcement.
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