I never thought basketball was going to be my future. I…

“My god, he’s the one who gets the girls? What? Is he made of chocolate or something?”

— Fisher Amelie

Its Earl Mr. Earlybird, gets them girls with curvy curves.

— Earl Sweatshirt

The only thing that matters in college basketball is going to the Final Four.

— Jim Boeheim

I remember girls watching it in high school, and I thought the basketball part of the show was cool. And lo and behold, a…

— Stephen Colletti

I always thought there was more to basketball than just scoring the ball.

— Trevor Ariza

I never thought a basketball shoe would be named after a woman, let alone me.

— Sheryl Swoopes

I thought basketball was a game for women. My mother played basketball, and so did my sister.

— Dirk Nowitzki

As a kid, I always idolized entrepreneurs. I thought they were cool people in the way that I thought basketball players were cool people.…

— Ben Silbermann

You always have to know what business you are in. Everybody thought we were in the basketball business. It's an NBA-team; we are not…

— Mark Cuban

I've always thought basketball was the best sport, although it wasn't the sport I was best at. It was just the most fun to…

— Jack Nicholson

I didn't really seek attention. I just wanted to play the game well and go home.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I always tell the kids, basketball is not going to be there forever, get a good education and make good choices.

— Andre Drummond

“If basketball was going to enable Bradley to make friends, to prove that a banker's son is as good as the next fellow, to…

— John McPhee

My father was always pushing me to become a basketball player. In Africa, when you're a kid, every kid loves to play soccer, and…

— Serge Ibaka

I discovered early on that the player who learned the fundamentals of basketball is going to have a much better chance of succeeding and…

— John Wooden