Quotes About Basketball

I am one of the last true centers in the NBA, and it's a title that I enjoy to hold.

I have a lot of respect for Shaq. He's one of the greatest NBA centers of all time.

The Dream is one of the best centers to play this game.

Making the tough shots and leaning in a certain way and a fadeaway and stuff like that, those are tough shots, but those are shots you have to learn to make in this league.

I was a biology major. But I also happened to be captain of the basketball team and first chair in band.

I've played almost every sport in the book and basketball was one of the sports that I played. We were state runner-up champions and state champions in basketball in high school.

When I was eighteen and I won the European Championship - that's when I realized I had an opportunity to play in the NBA one day.

In Boston, the year we won the championship, guys were so much different in age. You don't have the same lives off the court.

The idea of playing the point and leading a team to the NBA championship is what drove me to get up every day and work on my game as a kid.

I went from almost not playing in the NBA to playing on a championship team.

There's no other player that's playing basketball on this earth that has accomplished some of the things I've accomplished, and it's all through showing love and winning championships.

I was blessed to play 15 years, especially not even supposed to have made it. So, to be able to play 15 years, win a championship, I think that basketball chapter of my life is done.

I don't know what is flopping. I think Derek Fisher does a better job of that than I do. It's taking a charge. It's for the refs to decide.

It's a different era. I understand what Charles Barkley was saying but you just can't take guys out. There's too much scrutiny. There's too many replays and reviews, and cameras everywhere.

Charles Barkley taught me a lot when I played against him. How he would use his body or use his dribble to get people in there and all that stuff.

Without the hand check rule, players are more likely to work their way open.

I wasn't a fan of the Sixers. My dad was a big Mo Cheeks fan, and he wanted me to be drafted by the Sixers. My thing was, if that could make my dad happy, then that would make me happy, you know what I mean?

I was probably the best cherry picker in the history of African basketball. I got so many dunks, it was crazy.

Chicago's where I started my career. I've had a lot of success playing here.

My earliest childhood memories are of my dad putting a basketball in my hand and playing with me in our backyard.

When I was 15 years old, the Duke-UNC game looked like the funnest game in the world to be a part of. So I chose to make sure I was a part of it for four years, and when I was at Duke, it exceeded all my expectations.

The opportunity to play for Duke University is great, and that's the reason I chose the school.

Honestly, I chose 1 because I wore it in college and my rookie year. My mind wasn't even thinking about D-Rose and everything like that.

Christmas to me, obviously, basketball is very important to me, but there are some days of the year where it's got to take a back seat to something.