It’s not to hurt anyone, but basketball can be rough.
I can’t palm a basketball.
I’m just trying to be the best basketball player I can be, you know, move the ball.
I love the game of basketball, and as long as I can do that, keep playing and try to get some more championships with the organization, I’ll be happy.
The tradition in Serbia has always been team sports – football, basketball, handball, volleyball and water polo, individual sports are not supported.
I wasn’t a bad basketball player, but I was far from the world’s greatest. Good defense, no offense – that was me.
I’m a big sports guy – golf, tennis, baseball, basketball, snowboarding – and I love games.
After I made it to the NBA, I said that I didn’t want to be the last player from Africa. After my rookie year, I went to the league and talked about this, and they embraced my idea and started conducting basketball clinics in Africa, and that’s when I knew I wouldn’t be the last African.
I never gave up as a player, and I won’t give up as someone who wants to go to the Hall of Fame, because it’s the ultimate goal for a baseball player or a football player or a basketball player.
I had eleven varsity letters. I loved basketball the best, but cross-country is a little more under your control.
My focus is on comfort, so I tend to keep it simple and casual – both during and after the basketball season.
In college I never realized the opportunities available to a pro athlete. I’ve been given the chance to meet all kinds of people, to travel and expand my financial capabilities, to get ideas and learn about life, to create a world apart from basketball.
When I’m done playing basketball, I want do something bigger. I’m working on my doctorate right now at Barry University in Florida.
Few would deny that blacks have become very dominant in athletics: football, basketball, track, now dominant in tennis and dominant in golf.
I don’t feel like basketball is the only way to make a living.
I started playing basketball so late, it just means that anything is possible.
I was ‘Little Ty,’ ‘Little Tyrone.’ I always got this negative feedback from the game of basketball.
I was really active athletically, definitely. I was a hurdler, a sprinter. I played basketball for years. I was a serious athlete.
Basketball is pretty big in Latvia.
I would love to have a conversation with you when we’re working, and if I’m at a basketball game, I’ll probably talk to everyone there. That’s different. But on the outside world, if I don’t know you and you don’t know me, I probably cannot sit there and have a conversation.
My mom is real passionate and a family-first woman. She always told me that just because I can shoot a basketball better than someone else, I shouldn’t think that I’m better than them. I know if I change, my friends and family would lay me down. She just wants to see her kids do right.
I play basketball to win a championship. That championship is everything to me. And that’s what gets people to buy in to your brand – being a winner.
I got real bored in ’96. Wasn’t nobody to fight. Nothing to look forward to. That’s when I started playing basketball again. Had I not started playing basketball, my boxing career would have failed. But I went from a sport where nobody could touch me to another where I couldn’t touch nobody.
I grew up playing basketball and eating hot dogs on the corner.
I know how hard it is to shoot the basketball, so I’ve got great appreciation for it.
I play basketball, I surf and swim and go to the cinema and listen to music and read. I like shopping.
I probably follow all sports a little bit. I like hockey quite a bit. I like football. I like college basketball when it gets down to March Madness. I like baseball. I enjoy them all. I watch them all.
It’s an honor to have been considered for the team, and I hope that in the future I will have the chance to represent my country by playing for U.S.A. Basketball.
I’m the basketball version of a gravedigger.
There is no such thing as a perfect basketball player, and I don’t believe there is only one greatest player either.
I was into basketball, but then once I found contact sports, it was over. I never played basketball again in my life.
I played all kinds of sports when I was young: tennis, handball, basketball, some soccer. I focused on basketball when I was 16 or 17 and then came to the U.S. when I was 20.
I started playing basketball when I was about three years old. After that, everything else just came naturally. I had older cousins that used to let me hang with them, so I got my toughness from them.
As I get older, I find myself way more into sports. I’m in a basketball league. You maybe know some of the people in it. They’re real people, not fake ones like me.
Basketball is my escape, and I cannot bring any of my problems onto the court.
Faith, family, academics and then sports was the order of priorities in my family. My parents really stuck to these principles when raising me and my two brothers. As long as we took care of everything, they let us play as much basketball as we wanted.
Basketball is in my blood. It is my obligation to try.
I have ‘the first’ attached to my name in a whole lot of different aspects when it comes to the sport of basketball.
You don’t play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.
I have a certain taste, and I might be like, ‘I like this,’ when other people are like, ‘I can’t wear that.’ And in basketball, I might be able to do things other guys might not.
I really have a love and passion for football. I enjoy basketball, but it’s not something I love. You have to let things go that are not for you.
I’m a huge fan of Michael Jordan, and I love the game of basketball.
I’m a competitive type of person, whether it’s playing a game of basketball or playing business games.
Basketball is a team game. But that doesn’t mean all five players should have the same amount of shots.
I want to be in such a basketball city like New York.
From my early days of playing 2:2 in basketball against my three older brothers to my years playing Division 1 college basketball and lacrosse, sports have played a big role in my leadership development.
Basketball is my passion, and I love it, and I love to see my players succeed. I’m here for them and my children. That’s my passion.
I’d read about NBA players in magazines when I was growing up in Congo, but I had never actually seen what NBA basketball looked like because we didn’t have access to a satellite for TV.
Kids who I grew up with, who I played ball with, basketball, baseball, and went to parties with – for whatever reason – they ended up in a fundamentally different place than I did. I’m the attorney general of the United States and they are ex-felons.
Trip Hawkins – and this was the early 1980s – was saying there’s going to be a day when everyone has a computer and they’re going to want to do more on it, including playing games. So he started up a company, EA Sports, and he was going to have three games, football, basketball and baseball. So I was the football game.
If you don’t like basketball and you’re from Kentucky, they’ll kick you out!
My shoe has been going through evolution, and we having great feedback from the 1 to the 2 and the 2.5’s, so I think just consistency. The biggest thing I wanted to accomplish was a shoe that basketball players loved and felt like they have an advantage out of.
I’m not going to lie. I check the iTunes charts. It’s all about the iTunes charts. I only go on the Internet for the iTunes charts and basketball blogs.
I’m not a superman with a cape, I’m only a basketball player for the Celtics. But if I can make one child smile, I’ve done my job.
In my case, I played sports my whole life. I got out of college, and I didn’t bother to get health care coverage because I just figured I didn’t need it. But you know that if you blow out your knee on a basketball court or you get in a car accident, and you’re uninsured, it can bankrupt you.
I am ambidextrous. I write with my right hand but played basketball in high school with my left.
I knew I wasn’t going to play professional basketball.
A friend told me about a Nike competition, where they give you one minute to do tricks with a basketball. I wasn’t going to go, but they were giving away free sneakers. I ended up coming in second place.
I know LeBron will be owning a basketball team or maybe even a football team.
I really focused on three things in high school – my company, basketball and my school work.
Like, I don’t do drills at all. I think that’s why a lot of people who handle the basketball, I think mine looks different. You know, ’cause I’ve never done a drill. I’ve never done ‘get to a chair and go through your legs,’ or ‘get to a spot and a cone and go through your legs or behind your back.’
Trying to take money out of politics is like trying to take jumping out of basketball.
I love basketball players for what they do for their size – so graceful.
I love the flow of the game. There’s a certain fluidity to basketball. I don’t enjoy watching baseball or football in the same way.
