Quotes About NBA

My five years at Virginia truly prepared me for the NBA and for life after the NBA.

Everyone's system in the NBA makes sense. It all comes down to the quality of player and the quality of execution.

I came into this league when I was 20, and I didn't know if I was going to make it.

What is the NCAA going to do a program if a kid leaves before two years. You can't control it. The NBA is the one that has to control it.

LeBron and Rondo are arguably two of the best leaders ever.

I used to watch LeBron on TV growing up, and now I'm playing my first game against him.

LeBron and I are friends.

If you had first pick in the all-free agent NBA draft, you'd take LeBron James.

In my mind, LeBron James is the best player in the league.

I love the teams of Lebron James.

Getting to the NBA really helped me personally on a lot of levels. I liked it so much that I wanted to stay there.

Some kids have lifelong dreams of wanting to play in the NBA.

Playing in the NBA has been a lifelong dream.

I know the NBA is my all-time goal. It's what I dreamed of as a little kid.

Now to be the NBA player that gets to coach the little kids and talk to them and enjoy time with them, I think is just amazing.

I exceeded my expectations of longevity in the NBA.

I'm looking forward to playing against LeBron.

I loved Muggsy Bogues when he was in the league.

Getting a star player in the NBA is not impossibly hard, but close. It requires either an incredible amount of luck, or an amazing amount of time, or some other way to try and get at it.

At the end of the day, everybody knows you want to play at the Division I level. But my main goal since I was little was to get to the NBA.

Because of the makeup of the NBA, it cannot afford for the public to turn on them.

HGH was responsible for human growth, and lack of it caused dwarfism, or too much of it caused NBA players.

According to the latest study, more than half of all NBA players go broke within five years of retirement.

That's how pathetic the NBA television contract was at the time. West vs. Robertson and Wilt vs. Kareem…and no TV of any kind.