I hated basketball.

My dad had always encouraged me to play basketball, he didn't push me too much at first - he wanted me to try out…

— A'ja Wilson

When I started playing basketball, I hated it because football had always been my sport.

— Luol Deng

I'm closer to being happy. I'm doing things that make me happy. In football I loved to practice and I loved to play, but…

— Ricky Williams

Basketball is a game of sacrificing yourself for the next guy, being a team that takes good shots, and taking the right shots

— David Blatt

I just started growing. And everyone said, 'You should probably play basketball.' So I said, 'All right. I'll give it a shot.'

— Anthony Bennett

Something I like to do a lot is just sit by water when there’s a current and just stare into the water. I don’t…

— Iggy Pop

What I've talked about the entire series and throughout this playoffs is about intensity and effort, desire and will of our players.

— Bill Laimbeer

Well, you can certainly teach free-throwing. And you can teach the boys to pass at angles and run in curves. - University of Kansas…

— Darryl Dawkins

And I want to do it the right way, like everybody else, not just a famous figurehead that gets a job because he is…

— Shaquille O'Neal

If a Coach is determined to stay in the coaching profession, he will develop from year to year. This much is true, no coach…

— Adolph Rupp

Basketball isn't just a sport to me ; it's my ecstasy !

— Jamira Robinson

It's not how big you are, it's how big you play

— John Wooden

I learned so much from Sue about the Xs and Os of the game of basketball.

— Pat Summitt

There is no doubt in my mind and I know in my time, there will be a Canadian basketball player playing for Toronto Raptors, 100%

— Masai Ujiri

We love playing together and we love adversity. You know, back-to-back, the two best teams in the East.

— Steve Nash