Quotes About Basketball

I can score from 18 to 20 feet out, handle the ball, pass. I don't consider myself an old-school center.

I wasn't really that interested in playing. I had gone through some hard times not playing in high school, but my coach had it in his mind that basketball was the way I would get an education.

Marc Gasol, he's one of the hardest people to guard. His ability to pass, shoot, and his size is something that can be a benefit to him a lot.

I was always a funny person. I thought I would play some good ball, and the Harlem Globetrotters would see me, and that would be it - fame.

I don't think the world hated Duke basketball before me.

Basketball is fun. It's what I love to do. You got to have fun with it.

Man, at the end of the day, it's just a game. And the way I look at it, when I have fun, that's when I play my best basketball.

I really can just go out there and have fun and really just enjoy basketball.

I think basketball is a great way to have fun with the kids and teach some values through basketball.

I always try to have fun, because that's why I like playing basketball; I love it. And sometimes it's hard when you lose.

Just keep having fun. It's basketball. So that's what I'm going to keep doing.

I'm not under any pressure. I'm just a kid having fun playing basketball.

Heading into college, I was mainly just a spot-up shooter.

Erik Spoelstra has always been a guy I'd talk to even when he was just doing video clips for the Heat.

I'm definitely rooting for the Heat.

Depending on the point in the game and what's necessary, if you can deliver the play, whatever that is - heck, if it's a screen - and you get a guy open, and he scores a big basket for you, that gives me as much of a charge as anything.

Heck yes; a center always likes to shoot like a guard. But that just wasn't my thing to do.

I guess I concentrated exclusively on basketball because of my height. If I was shorter, I don't think I would play.

I'm always looking at the ball and making sure it goes in. I'm not looking at where I'm at or what level I'm at in height.

This is basketball. It's All-Star and all that stuff. That's not what it's really about. It's about making a difference and impacting the kids and helping people in need. That's what it's about.

Dirk Nowitzki has been my hero for many years.

Allen Iverson is, like, my all-time hero.

I think I live in the land of high expectations after playing at Connecticut.

Scoring, that's my thing... Didier Drogba, Samuel Eto'o, those were the guys that we looked at as kids like, 'Man, they're doing it, and they're doing it at a high level.' We would see them on TV. So, it wasn't much about basketball, to be honest, it was just those type of athletes. Those guys were the guys that we looked at as kids.