Quotes About Basketball

I've been in love with basketball from the moment I shot my first shot, hanging out with my father. When I was a kid I would stay in the gym waiting for my dad to finish practicing. I was just shooting.

My dad put up a basket on my street, and I was practicing every day. It was just nuts. But I miss it. Whenever I see a ball, I get itchy!

The young Obama's lack of playing time on the high school basketball team was due more to his ability than the coach's preference for white players.

In high school, AAU, even prep school, I didn't really know how to play basketball. It was kind of like, 'Let's throw the balls out, go get buckets, just score, and go play.'

Nothing can prepare an 18-year-old for the fishbowl that is Duke basketball. So that was difficult.

I've done a lot of basketball drills, not a whole lot of competitive stuff. I have basically been in the gym everyday working on my game, working on the time off that I've had from the game, just getting myself prepared mentally and physically for the season.

I played basketball at Kentucky in 1986-87 and '87-88 and enjoyed a 12-year NBA career. After multiple injuries and seven surgeries, I developed an addiction to prescription painkillers.

A lot of people just think I'm a big man, but I'm a basketball player. I am able to do everything that a basketball player can do - from playmaking and scoring to just passing the ball and just being a leader and post presence.

I do make a difference. I just come out and provide a presence in the paint, defensively and offensively. I play hard.

My particular demigod is the Sonics point guard Gary Payton, who is one of the most notorious trash-talkers in the National Basketball Association. He's not really bad. He's only pretend bad - I know that - but he allows me to fantasize about being bad.

I don't even watch basketball. I can't even pretend.

I'm into hiking and mountains and I follow hockey and basketball pretty avidly.

New York basketball's been pretty good over the years.

My dad can shoot pretty good from outside.

I was pretty much seen as a basketball player coming out of high school. Football was my second love, but luckily, I turned out to be pretty good. Something just drew me to football; besides, I ended up being too short for my position in basketball.

I was not a good student; I was an average student. In order to play basketball and baseball, I had to go to school every day. And so I was pretty good in terms of attending school.

I would like to say I do some pretty good impressions. I'm also one of the best basketball players in the world. I just chose not to go the NBA route, but people say I'm better than Kobe and LeBron.

I'm a pretty good free-throw shooter, so getting fouled is a good thing.

I like to think of myself as a pretty good shot blocker.

I remember playing hockey as a kid - I was goalie in gym class and I was pretty good at it. But basketball was my passion. As a kid I went to class, came back from school, did my homework and went straight across the street to practice.

I think I'm pretty good at pressuring the ball, forcing turnovers.

I think my one-on-one defense is pretty good.

It's cool to be a pioneer in something, especially in basketball in Canada, it's pretty good.

Danny Ainge is a genius, man.