Quotes About Achievement

That's where my focus is all the time, trying to get on base.

I'm proud to be here as a man that has played first base more than anybody in the game of baseball.

It's amazing to see where baseball can take you.

I am not merely a baseball player. I am a black man who has done what he wants, gotten what he wanted, and will continue to get it.

I want to be respected based on how I play.

I'd love to play in the Big Bash at some stage.

If you think about it, Aretha did basically the same things that I do.

The team's aims are do to the best we can basically.

I want to be elected on my own ability. Only then do you have progress... People should not use race as a basis for labelling me.

For me, an assist is the same as getting a basket.

At the end of the day, it's basketball. You've got to put the ball in the basket.

I've accomplished everything I tried to accomplish in basketball.

I think that basketball players should get the job done no matter how it looks on the screen.

I'm a better and more educated person because of basketball.

I have 'the first' attached to my name in a whole lot of different aspects when it comes to the sport of basketball.

Basketball is big stuff in New York. If you're good in it, everybody respects you. Nobody would want to ruin your shooting eye or your shooting arm.

Basketball paid for four years of my education, and I am so proud of that.

I had eleven varsity letters. I loved basketball the best, but cross-country is a little more under your control.

The only thing I can control is winning on the basketball court.

I always wanted to be a basketball player.

I don't know how you can be an All-American in this country and not be a good basketball player.

I want people to say that an African basketball player is the best player in the whole world.

I always just take pride in being a basketball player.

Being a great basketball player is only part of who you are.