Ball player Quote by John Amaechi Download Open image “I'd probably have to leave home in order to become a basketball player of any note.” — John Amaechi ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ball player Basketball Basketball player Home Notes Order Player
Without basketball, I wouldn't be me. I don't know where I would be at. — Tyronn Lue Copy Share Image
I would have to be in a very different place in my life to coach basketball. I'll always work out and be in the… — Chris Bosh Copy Share Image
For me to stay in basketball, it would just have to be a veteran team. — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
I might do a hobby or go to the movies, but everything comes back to basketball. — Brandon Ingram Copy Share Image
If every basketball player worked as hard as I did, I'd be out of a job — Steve Nash Copy Share Image
There was certainly nothing really sexual about my youth growing up, simply because the fact remains if you're the fat kid in a school and I was the only fat black kid in the school - in fact, I was the only black kid in the school - but if you are kind of ostracized on many different levels in… — John Amaechi Copy Share
I don't need to think that I'm being loomed over my shoulder in order to behave in a way that's moral. — John Amaechi Copy Share Image
I always think coming out is something that you do for people who really deserve it. It should be. — John Amaechi Copy Share Image
I grew up thinking the best job in the world would be a Jedi and being a psychologist is the closest thing I could… — John Amaechi Copy Share Image
I think that we ill-prepare athletes from the very beginning. From the moment they pick up a ball or kick or whatever it is they're doing. We ill-prepare them. Especially with the major sports. What you see is this cycle of entitlement that gets thrown their way, so the kid who is in junior high and hasn't finished his test,… — John Amaechi Copy Share
In the NBA you need a little bit more than that when Jordan is front of you. You need a little bit more than… — John Amaechi Copy Share Image
We need to get past the point where being black and a male means that I am likely to mug you for your wallet,… — John Amaechi Copy Share Image
I thought kissing was good with girls, but I always thought you know it probably could be better, so there was nothing really. — John Amaechi Copy Share Image
I think in an ideal world celebrities do have a responsibility in many different areas to be role models. — John Amaechi Copy Share Image
I just wanted to fit in, so probably early on I knew, but it was... social life was such a distant part of my… — John Amaechi Copy Share Image
In a country like America, there are places, many states here still where coming out means you lose your job, where coming out means… — John Amaechi Copy Share Image
Thinking about the things that happened, I don't know any other ball player would could have done what he (Jackie Robinson) did. To be able to hit with everybody yelling at him. He had to block all that out, block out everything but this ball that is coming in at a hundred miles an hour and he's got a split… — Pee Wee Reese Copy Share
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 Copy Share Image
I have friends in other industries but if I am training for a wrestling match, I would turn to the best wrestler to train,… — Austin Aries Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I competed every day as a professional football player... You've got to like competing. That's how your team gets better, when you have competition… — Herm Edwards Copy Share Image
“I can’t wait to knock you up and have a whole team of little baseball players around this place!” — J. Sterling Copy Share Image
My older brothers were both basketball players so I just grew up around the gym. — Brook Lopez Copy Share Image
I'm a basketball player, so I want to do whatever I've got to do to be on the floor and I'm prepared for that. — Tyrese Haliburton Copy Share Image
“Seeing yourself in print is such an amazing concept: you can get so much attention without having to actually show up somewhere. While others who have something to say or who want to be effectual, like musicians or baseball players or politicians, have to get out there in front of people, writer who tend to be shy, get to stay… — Anonymous Copy Share
People say baseball players should go out and have fun. No way. To me, baseball is pressure, I always feel it. This is work.… — Dennis Eckersley Copy Share Image
Canada is a country whose main exports are hockey players and cold fronts. Our main imports are baseball players and acid rain. — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
