Quotes About Basketball

I love to hoop and you can never get better just by sitting on the bench.

My grandma used to have a backyard and we put a hoop, a shaky hoop, up there. We used to just shoot at it. We shot at it so many times, we broke it. We had to get a better one, because that one wasn't good at all.

I just want to hoop freely.

I'm just trying to look at different ways to see how the ball can go in the hoop.

Sometimes you've just got to will it into the hoop.

I know how to put the ball in the hoop.

I first started playing when we moved from my first house to a house that had a hoop out in front. Every day, I was in front of the basket shooting balls. The basket was regular height, and I was about 5 years old.

Most guards and forwards don't really know how to play with their back to the hoop. It's more and more an outside game.

I'm still going to have to go out and score, but defensively hopefully I can make them a little bit better.

I've been good at the game of basketball my whole life, so I'm hoping I can get back to that.

My father brought a basketball to the hospital when I was born, and he already had it embedded in his head that I would be a ball player.

Basketball Without Borders is a leadership camp that takes basketball to different places around the world, to Africa, Europe, America and Asia. It's a camp that brings players from different parts of the continent to one city that's been assigned as the host city. We've been going to a different city every year.

Europe has by far the most hostile crowds I've ever played in.

My favorite NBA team are the houston rockets and favorite college team are the duke blue devils.

I used to get the question in Houston which was like 'What would you do if you had Shaq?' My answer was 'I would give Shaq the ball 100 times a game.'

I think Houston is a city players love to play for, love to play in.

When Houston called, I was like, 'I think this could be a great fit.'

The love of basketball, the time and effort I've put into it - I'd be doing a disservice to myself if I didn't see how far I could go in basketball before I tried to do anything in baseball.

I'm a huge fan of basketball. Any time you get a chance to watch basketball, I do it.

That was a huge part part of my game, the postups and something I did a lot.

March Madness is an incredible three weeks. I firmly believe it's the greatest three weeks in sports. You have the Super Bowl; you have the World Series.

Coach Blatt's been great! He comes with a worldly dynamic and I think that's what our game has been lacking. He's coached and played all over the world, so his perspective on the game of basketball is kind of different from most traditional NBA coaches. But at the same time, it makes it interesting and exciting.

Back in the NBA's pre-mask era, ballers with busted noses or orbital bones had two unappealing options: Sit out and heal, or strap on a Michael Myers-looking opaque face shield closely related to that worn by hockey goalies.

My rookie season, I wore 8 because I had wanted 15, but it's retired in Philadelphia. I had worn 15 in college.