Basketball Quote by Ben Wallace

The stuff I went through at Auburn? It didn't matter anymore. I just wanted to play football.

— Brandon Jacobs

I wanted to play both football and basketball until they made me select one over the other.

— John Havlicek

In all honesty, I was hoping to use football as a path to play basketball in college.

— Ben Wallace

I played at Georgia, I coached at Alabama. I know how to beat both of them.

— Pat Dye

The second I learned what college football was, what the NFL was, I said, 'I want to do that.'

— Brandin Cooks

I played college basketball. When I first decided I was going to play football, there were a lot of people telling me that I…

— Jimmy Graham

I'm more akin to football than I think anything else because that's what I played in high school.

— Bobby Sherman

I say it all the time: Texas high school football. It's no joke. It's a big deal. And when you get good coaches like…

— Baker Mayfield

I was recruited at Alabama and at Auburn to play basketball.

— Luther Strange

In high school, you don't play much defense. It's mostly offense. In college, it's vice versa, and that's what I tried to do.

— Donte DiVincenzo

I never liked Alabama. I liked some of the players. Or, I liked Auburn over Alabama. I never wanted to go to college there.

— JaMarcus Russell

One of the reasons I never went into pro football was because I wanted my kids to grow up around an academic environment. And…

— Ara Parseghian